Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Masaka district local government councilors have rejected a proposal to construct their headquarters on a piece of land donated by former Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi. The district council which convened on Thursday to consider the appropriate location for the new district headquarters declined to …
Read More »MPs query gov’t on former VP Ssekandi’s retirement benefits
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliamentary Committee on Government Assurances has queried the ministry of public service over the delayed payment of retirement benefits to the former Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi. Committee members claim the former vice president is surviving miserably with a dilapidated car yet his security …
Read More »Museveni asks business community to emulate Mukwano
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has implored the business community to emulate the late Amirali Karmali, Mukwano’s example of admirable work ethics. In a message read on his behalf by the Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi, Museveni said Amirali was one of those people who filled …
Read More »VP Ssekandi’s rival blocked from distributing coffee seedlings
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A rival of Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi has been blocked from distributing coffee seedlings to the electorates of Bukoto Central Constituency. Godfrey Sseremba, who intends to contest against Ssekandi, was restrained by the police from supplying the seedlings to farmers in the area, …
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