Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three officials of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF) in Pader district have been arrested for supplying farmers with blind and unhealthy cattle. They are Anthony Toolanya, the NUSAF III desk officer, Robert Okeny, the District Veterinary Officer and district NUSAF III focal officer, …
Read More »UPDF starts detonation of explosives in Pader district
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) has started a detonation exercise to destroy unexploded ordinances in Pader district. The Pader Resident District Commissioner, Dusman Okee says the exercise that started on Wednesday will run for two months. It follows a resolution reached during the district security …
Read More »Pader leaders issue tough warning over bush burning
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Pader District have been warned locals against the rampant setting of fire on bushes. The warning follows a weekend inferno in the villages of Aringobom, Agweng East, and Agweng West all in Pader sub-county that razed down seven grass thatched huts. The fire …
Read More »Newly recruited SPCs warned against misusing guns
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 200 Special Police Constables-SPCs in Pader district who have completed a two weeks training have been warned against acts of indiscipline. The 219 SPCs from Pader are part of the 50,000 who will be deployed at polling centres in different parts of the …
Read More »Kyagulanyi’s campaigns in Kitgum, Pader hang in balance as authorities deny him venues
Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pader town council authorities have declined to offer the town council playground to the National Unity Platform-NUP presidential candidate Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi. Kyagulanyi is scheduled to start his first campaigns in East Acholi in Kitgum district and later in Pader district on Wednesday. On …
Read More »Pader sub county leaders reject UGX 7 million Covid-19 funds
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sub-county leaders in Pader district have rejected 7.9 million shillings allocated for Covid-19 activities. Twelve sub-counties in the district were allocated the money in April this year by the district task-force to facilitate COVID-19 related activities. The money is part of the 165 million shillings …
Read More »Cassava growers in Pader fault Gen. Saleh for promising hot air
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to 6,900 cassava farmers in Acholibur Sub-county in Pader district have asked Gen. Salim Saleh, the National Coordinator of the Operation Wealth Creation–OWC program to fulfill the pledges he made to them. While delivering tons of cassava cuttings to the farmers in December 2017, …
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