Mayuge, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two people have been arrested for killing Sergeant Samson Emoding, a soldier of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces-UPDF who was attached to the Engineering Brigade in Magamaga. Emoding was killed over the weekend and his body dumped on railway slippers in Magamaga trading centre, Mayuge …
Read More »Truck drivers decry hostility from highway communities
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Truck drivers have expressed dismay at the hostility subjected to them by communities along the along the Eastern Route closer to the Uganda-Kenya border. The hostility they say started with an increase in the number of coronavirus cases recorded among truck drivers mainly those …
Read More »Fuel siphoning frustrates efforts to minimize contact between truck drivers, highway communities
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The practice of siphoning fuel from trucks has frustrated efforts to minimise contact between youths and truck drivers along highways in Busoga region exposing them to Covid 19 infection. Despite the fact that the Works and Transport Ministry directed that all transit trucks park …
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