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The Kamuli Woman MP Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga immediately after swearing in guaranteed to submit a notice to the ruling National Resistance Movemen party to compete in the Speakers race.

James Kubeketerya Member of Parliament representing people of Bunya County EAST Mayuge worn on the National Resistance Movement also promised his people to boost fishing industry.

He adds that, over the last period people operating from the lake shores have been mistreated but now their voices are to be heard.

Kintu Alex Brandon Kagoma North County Jinja NRM says he is very ready to not only serve people from his vicinity but also countrywide since Ugandans have common problems.

Buyanja east mp, Dr.Emily Kugonza has called on the people of his constituency and Kibalae district as a whole to abandon all disunities that came along with elections and unite to improve their lives. Dr Emily Kugonza says that now that elections are over people should embark on work. Dr. Emily revealed this immediately after taking oath as a member of parliament for Buyanja east.

Dr. Emily Kugonza  also says that he has an expertise in development and he will use his experience to tap into government programs and he will do this using mass mobilization of people to advance their own development.

Dr. Emily further said  that mps alone cannot make things happen however, working with leaders at different levels and corporation among themselves as legislators will make a great impact in the development of the areas and the country at large.

Dr Emily Kugonza a member of the ruling party NRM is one of the mps who was un opposed

K ibale district woman mp, Noeline Basemera Kisembo says that this term in parliament she is focused to work harder and lobby for services to be brought nearer to the people of Kibale district.

Speaking after her swearing in Noeline Kisembo Basemera said that she is to focus more on health services which is improvement of health centres, roads for transportation of people and goods, Agriculture among other issues.

Noeline Basemera further says one of her program this term also includes lobbying   for the provision of electricity to help people engage in commercialization in an effort to improve house hold incomes

Basemera has thanked God and the people of Kibale for entrusting her for the second term and he assures the people of  Kibale that she will not disappoint them.

The vice chairperson of the committee who is also the woman Member of Parliament- Bugiri, Agnes Ttaka has said that the children of refugees born in Uganda should be granted Citizenship.

 “These children should be registered at birth as Ugandans since they get all services from our country, most of them end up learning and speaking local language so there is nothing deterring them from becoming registered Ugandans” Ttaka explains.

Ttaka also states that refugees should be encouraged to engage in productive activities to reduce on the economic pressure they exert on host communities.

This came in when parliament was discussing the committee report on the recommendations of the 20^th annual report of the Uganda human rights commission.

Johnson Muyanja Seyonga the Mukono south Member of Parliament was the first to oppose the proposal saying that if refugees are allowed to become citizens they will purchase all the land from the nationals.

“They are always supported by government and other organizations financial wise so they are capable of purchasing land” confirms Ssenyonga.

The Busia municipality Member of Parliament Geoffrey Macho also opposed this saying that this will turn Uganda into an open market for citizens from other countries.

The Bunyole west member of parliament James Waluswaka says that this proposal should be adopted where one parent  is a Ugandan.

His words came as a divide emerged between parts of Europe and the US over how best to increase global vaccine production.

Currently, around 1.25 billion doses have been administered around the world.

However, according to news from agency states that, less than 1% has been given to the world’s 29 poorest countries.

Rich countries are speeding up their vaccination campaigns with the UK standing at 67% of the population having received their first dose and in the US 56% of those eligible have had one jab.

Last week, the European Union agreed to purchase 900 million more doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

South Africa and India argue that surrendering patents would mean the secret vaccine recipes would be released and other countries could start producing the life-saving jabs.

 India is currently in the grip of a devastating second wave, which yesterday alone left more than 4,000 people dead.

The assistant commissioner air transport under this ministry, Robert Ntambi reveals that the ministry is developing a policy that will promote public private partnership in the aviation industry so as to create a conducive operating environment for the sector players.

Delivering the transport minister’s speech at the 9th graduation ceremony of Uganda aviation academy in Kampala today-Friday, Ntambi applauded private players in the aviation industry for the great role they are playing towards professionalizing the sector.

Board member of the academy Captain Mike Mukula says that now days travelers would love to be attended to by people with enough knowledge with various tactics and they want comfortability which we have imparted to the group passed out.

“When moving from place to place, country to country, customers need solution aided people so that is what we are offering because it is going to create a difference with other workers” Says Mukula.

Francis Babu also a board member has shared their future plans to elevate the level of training at Uganda aviation academy after passing out women and men to work in the department of cargo, flight operations.

“Our next flit to come out are pilots and engineers to work from within Uganda and also abroad, this is to create job opportunities for the community” shares Babu.

He says that now they are working tooth and nail to see that they launch a university where they will be carrying out day and night lectures for the trainees.

The 9th graduation has passed out over 130 graduates in different aviation disciplines.

The deputy spokesperson Kampala Metropolitan Luke Oweyesigyire says deployments will ensure that no motorist’s life or property is threatened or attacked.

“Police have put in place all its resources to ensure that the culprits are arrested and prosecuted.” Oweyesigyire assures public.

Meanwhile the territorial police of Kira Division Police Station are investigating arson attacks that targeted motorists at Kireka Township during the wee hours.

“Two incidents were reported to the police luckily enough no one was injured in the incidents” Oweyesigyire confirms.

He says it is suspected that both incidents were well coordinated where the first incident happened along the Railway Crossing at Kireka Township where two juveniles, still on the run, are suspects.

Oweyesigyire says investigations indicate that one juvenile was seen by the CCTV camera pouring a liquid on a vehicle belonging to Shafic Mubiru while he was in the traffic jam.

“Another juvenile was seen setting fire on the same vehicle at the spot where the colleague poured a liquid suspected to be petrol” Oweyesigyire.

According to Oweyesigyire, Mr Mubiru was heading home from Kitintale, later told police that he heard a loud bang and then saw fire on his car. He stopped and was helped by the residents to extinguish it. But the juveniles had already fled the scene. Efforts to arrest them are underway.

The second incident happened around the same time just a few metres away on Jinja Road towards Kireka Police Station.

Ms Rose Kyasimire was driving in the traffic jam when unknown persons riding a motorcycle, whose registration number is yet to be identified, hurled a petrol bomb at her car.

The victim told police that she heard a loud bang and immediately saw her car engulfed by fire then got out and started extinguishing it. She was helped by the residents and the police officers who arrived in real time.

Oweyesigyire says a bottle suspected to have been used to hurl the flammable substance has been recovered and submitted to Government Analytical Laboratory for analysis. 

Oweyesigyire  has commended the residents at Kireka who responded to the incident and put out the fire immediately.

Under this agreement, it’s stipulated on how stakeholders who are to invest in oil processing have percentages in the oil of Uganda.

Today Wednesday during plenary, the state minister for energy and Mineral development Mary Goretti Kitutu said that Total has 62%, Uganda 15%, Tanzania where the oil pipe will pass also has 15% and CNOOC 8%.

The Minister informed the house that in case Tanzania loses interest in shares, the first beneficiary will be CNOOC followed by Total and Uganda last which pissed of Members of Parliament and asked for the agreements.

“Parliament to set up a special committee to peruse through them to avoid risks of making losses in oil sector” Minister clarifies.

However, Minister Kitutu said that the agreements are confidential and cannot be fully accessed as per the interests of Uganda and the stakeholder companies.

In the meantime, Parliament has also been shocked by news that the biggest shareholder partner in the sector who is Total has been denied funds by the French banks which have been originally financing their oil activities across the globe.

Members of Parliament say this has left most of them wondering where can made outstanding decisions for the development of the country or has to lean against donors all the time.

Despite them being vaccinated, the country is bringing back restrictions amid a rise in cases.

The archipelago has nearly 100,000 people and has recorded close to 500 new cases in the three days with about 1,000 active cases.

The country’s news agency said a third of the active cases involved people who had had two vaccine doses already.

The rest had either had a single dose or were unvaccinated according to the findings.

Among the closed places include schools, restaurants, shops, sport grounds and sports activities cancelled for two weeks while some gatherings have been banned.

 This is after Chairperson Committee on Rules, Privileges and Discipline also Kalaki County Obote Clement Keneth Ongalo presented a report of the committee on rules, privileges and discipline on the proposed amendments to the rules of procedure of parliament chaired by speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga.

 Kadaga made a ruling after an intense argument on the composition of the committees of Parliament when the Members of Parliament failed to reach on the agreement on the numbers of Members of Parliament sitting on the committee.

“Let’s give time the clerk so that, the work is done and also business moves on.” Kadaga clarifies.

During the debate, some Members of Parliament were proposing to split and create more accountability committees to handle the backlog of reports from government ministries and departments from the districts among others.

 “Given the robust increase of the members of parliament in the 11th parliament most members might remain redundant in the process” Adds Kadaga. 

 Tororo District Woman Member of Parliament Sarah Opendi says due to the backlog most of the reports are not handled this issue made officers from the department frustrated.

Paul Mwiru the Jinja West Member of Parliament says the creation of more accountability committees will ease the work of the members of Parliament hence reducing report backlog.

“At least 16 sessional committees and 16 standing committees should be created to handle the backlog of the departments and agencies” MPs submitted.

 Mwiru adds that there are so many problems in the government departments because committees cannot handle the load appropriately.

Matovu was a student a student pursuing bachelors in education and was still in his first year first semester under the Faculty of education and humanities office.

Peter Magala a lecturer of Media and Human rights at Metropolitan international University confirmed the incident and clarified that Matovu was shoot while stealing University computers.

“The LDU officer is under police custody as police does its investigative work, but he did what he was supposed to do. That is to guard the University property” says Magala.

Meanwhile the UPDF Chief of Staff, Major General Joseph Musanyufu has admitted flaws in the Local Defense Unit (LDU) personnel who need more training.

This follows continued criticism by members of public over death by shooting involving LDU officers.

Major General Musanyufu says they are now extensively training LDU personnel and those who qualify will be integrated into the UPDF fully.

 “ I urge members of the public to be cognizant of the contribution made by the LDU in ensuing security prevails especially in the city centers” General Musanyufu commends LDU.