Tag Archives: Lwengo

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two Lwengo district officials are in police custody for alleged fraud and obtaining money by false pretense from women groups in the area. They are Joseph Mazinga, the Lwengo District Commercial Development Officer, and an attendant in his office, Wilson Ssemanda. Another official Charles Mbazira, …

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Lwengo district is holding a 37-year-old man for allegedly torturing and starving his children. Ivan Kisekka, a resident of Kakoma village in Kisseka sub county is detained at Lwengo district Central Police for allegedly starving and causing grievous body injuries on his …

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Simeo Ssenkyama, the Malongo sub county LC III chairperson in Lwengo district has earned himself a jail term for conniving to marry off a twelve-year-old girl. The Masaka Chief Magistrate Charles Yeitesi convicted the LC III chairperson after finding him guilty of aiding the sexual …

Kyotera, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 1,000 people affected by the East African Crude Oil Pipeline in Kyotera and Lwengo districts have petitioned Total Energies E&P Uganda, for an intervention to address grievances stemming from the land acquisition process. The 1,443km East African Crude Oil Pipeline will transport Uganda’s …

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The family of the late Joseph Ddumba Lukatome, one of the machete victims in Lwengo district say the condolence money released by President Yoweri Museveni never reached them. Ddumba met his death at the hands of machete-wielding men who raided his home in Kakoma-Kyanjovu village, …

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Crane Foundation (ICF), a conservation organization has expressed concern about the rate at which crested cranes are trapped and killed in Lwengo district. According to ICF, the uncontrolled hunting, eating and killing of the precious national emblem is frustrating the ongoing campaign to …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Lwengo district has recovered sh5.25 million , part of the condolence money that had been paid to fake relatives of machete victims that were presented to President Yoweri Museveni. The recovered money is part of the sh10 million which President Museveni gave …

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Claimants for the remains of one of the persons killed in machete attacks that occurred in Lwengo district have flatly refused to be subjected to police DNA tests, citing the doubtful integrity of the force and therefore tests conducted by it. Commissioner Julius Twinomujuni from …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The General Court Martial in Makindye has remanded three private security guards over the murder of 70 year old Aidah Nabwami, a resident of Seke village, Kiseka sub county in Lwengo district. The accused are Abdul Razak Rizuk, a security guard, Denis Kashamba, formerly a …

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several elderly persons in Lwengo district have fled their homes following threats of attack by unknown assailants. At least seven homes in Kyoko, Mirembe and Kaganda villages in Kingo sub-county, Lwengo district have been abandoned due to the apparent state of fear caused by machete-wielding …