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Police to open National CCTV archive centre in December

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police are set to open a Closed Circuit Television-CCTV National Archive Centre in Kampala. According to Police’s Chief Political Commissar Asan Kasingye, the archive centre, whose construction work is at 60 per cent will also serve as the national CCTV monitoring centre. Kasingye says …

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EU injects UGX 37 billion in aquaculture parks construction

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The European Union is investing up to 37 billion shillings for the construction of two aquaculture parks in Kalangala and Apac districts. The parks are part of a wider project to promote environmentally sustainable commercial aquaculture project in Uganda. The parks will have a …

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Deputy Chief Justice’s motorcade knocks dead Gulu cyclist

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu police have impounded a vehicle belonging to the convoy of the Deputy Chief Justice, Alphonse Chigamoi Owiny-Dollo after it was involved in a road accident. The speeding vehicle registration number UG0646J was impounded on Monday evening after knocking dead a cyclist identified as …

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Masindi sugarcane farmers to get fully fledged service center

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President, Yoweri Museveni has ordered for the establishment of a service center to support sugarcane farmers in Masindi district. This was contained in a message by Gen. Salim Saleh, the coordinator Operation Wealth Creation-OWC read for him by Major Gen. John Mateeka in a meeting …

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Private emergency care providers decry lack of training entity

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private emergency care providers are speaking huge sums of money to train their workers abroad in emergency care due to lack of a specialized training facility in the country. Isaac Mundeyi, the administrator of City Ambulance, a private emergency care provider disclosed this in an …

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Unexploded ordnances discovered in Lamwo

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two pieces of anti-tank landmines and more than 9,000 rounds of live ammunition have been recovered abandoned in Palabek Kal sub county, Lamwo district. The bombs were recovered on Monday by the Uganda Peoples Defense Force (UPDF) soldiers following a tip-off by farmers who were …

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Land Board member sues Lord Mayor for illegal termination

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farouq Ntege, a former member of the Kampala District Land Board has dragged the Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago to court for illegally terminating him from his job. Through his lawyers of Nabukenya, Mularira and Company Advocates, Ntege is seeking interim orders from the Civil Division …

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Museveni asks court for more time to resolve UNSA disputes

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has asked court for more time resolve the disputes in Uganda National Student’s Association-UNSA. This was contained in a letter delivered to the High Court Civil Division presided over by Justice Musa Ssekaana signed by Aggrey David Kibenge, the Under Secretary for …

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Parent seeks UGX 1 billion over son’s death at school

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Martin Sentamu, the father of Imran Kasujja Kyagulanyi, a Top class pupil who died at Sir Apollo Kaggwa Primary School Nakasero is seeking shillings 1 billion in compensation. In his suit before the Civil Division of High Court, Sentamu alleges that his five year …

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