The Members of Parliament on the committee of Presidential Affairs are probing into the bickering at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and the bribery cited in job allocation.

The MPs have planned to investigate the bickering and corruption at KCCA within only two weeks and then give a report of their findings to the speaker of parliament.

The MPs are probing activities of the KCCA after the staff of the defunct Kampala City Council cried out to Parliament for help, accusing KCCA, of sidelining them in favour of new workers.

The committee investigating KCCA is being chaired by Bernabas Tinkasimire (NRM). Tinkansimire says his committee will give recommendations on how the city management should be streamlined after its investigations.

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Hundreds of people in Kampala have called in radio talk shows wondering how the former Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) director; George Agaba, a person facing murder charges could be released on bail pending trial and his co accused, and a guard Santos Makmot remains in the prison.

Some of the callers wondered whether Agaba is out because he is a son of Sam Kutesa, the minister of Uganda for Foreign Affairs or it’s because Agaba is a member of NRM and comes from western Uganda. Most of the callers requested the court to take back Agaba to Luzira prison.

The Nakawa High Court Judge Faith Mwondha granted Agaba bail on Thursday two months since he was remanded in Luzira prison over murder. Agaba is supposed to report to the Chief Magistrates Court every two weeks. Justice Mwondha gave Agaba bail on grounds of ill-health in connection to spinal sickness and his former body guard, Makmot Santos remained on remand.

Agaba was remanded to Luzira prison on January 31 in connection with the botched demolition exercise in Kampala in which one person was killed and scores injured.

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The police had gone to Makerere University to curb the students strike at the university’s main campus. The students were protesting against a new internship policy.

The Police used tear gas, batons and rubber bullets to disperse the students who had started destroying university property.

The students staged the fourth strike in a period of less than two weeks after the university Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs), Prof. Lillian Tibatemwa failed to address the students about the new policy.

The students attempted to burn the university’s main building. This is when the police swung into action and fired tear gas and rubber bullets. The students responded to the police brutality by throwing stones and in the process some policemen were injured.

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scholarships for African Students in India: The Government of India, through the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), offers about 2325 scholarships under 21 scholarship schemes.

Of these scholarships, 500 are exclusively for African countries. There are students in India under these schemes from about 80 countries.

Most of the scholarship holders come from developing countries in Asia, Africa, South and Central America.

However, there are quite a few students from the developed countries as well. Around 3550 foreign students are currently studying in India under the various scholarship schemes.

The students are in graduate, post graduate and doctoral programmes as well as in professional courses such as engineering, pharmacy, accountancy, business administration and management.

Scholarships are also given for learning Indian dance, music, painting, sculpture, etc.

The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) administers its own scholarship schemes apart from which it also functions as an agency for other schemes on behalf of the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India.

For,

• Application Form for Scholarships for Foreign Students,
• Guidelines for Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Scholarship Holders,
• List of Universities Recognised by the University Grants Commission of India, &
• Scholarship Terms for Different Courses

See: Scholarships for African Students in India

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Col. Kiiza Besigye, the president General of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) says that opposition members want to make it an increasingly high risk for government officials in Uganda to embezzle public funds. President Museveni all along has been seen by many people as shielding thieving government officials.

Besigye alleges that some officials in Uganda government are dirtiest politicians and computer hackers who can break into electronic vaults and steal the country’s resources. He says that Ugandans no longer want to be grievously robbed by the thieving Uganda government officials.

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Otafiire yesterday told a press conference in Kampala that the government should go slow on enacting a law that out laws homosexuality and lesbianism.

The minister says that he is aware that homosexuality is satanic, demonic, immoral and ungodly but enacting anti homosexual law would be difficult to implement.

Otafiire who is a lawyer told the press that even if the law against homosexuality is in place to prove in Court that a person is a homosexual is difficult. So he asked the religious leaders and traditional leaders and moralists not to develop pressure over the vice and leave the matter to God who will judge homosexuals on the judgment day.

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Otafiire yesterday told a press conference in Kampala that the government should go slow on enacting a law that out laws homosexuality and lesbianism.

The minister says that he is aware that homosexuality is satanic, demonic, immoral and ungodly but enacting anti homosexual law would be difficult to implement.

Otafiire who is a lawyer told the press that even if the law against homosexuality is in place to prove in Court that a person is a homosexual is difficult. So he asked the religious leaders and traditional leaders and moralists not to develop pressure over the vice and leave the matter to God who will judge homosexuals on the judgment day.

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They were supposed to explain to MPs why Ugandans living in United Arab Emirates are not helped by the embassy when they face problems related to exploitation and illegal arrest while working in United Arab Emirates.

Foreign Affairs PS, James Mugume

The mps through the committee chairperson Alex Byarugaba told Ambassador James Mugume to leave because he could not be with what they wanted from the minister of foreign Affairs.

Mugume had told mps that the two ministers were not available because the president had directed minister Assuman kiyingi to be somewhere today and Minister Okello Oryem is out of the country.

Isingiro Member of Parliament who is also the chairperson of the committee Alex Byarugaba said that mps want Foreign Affairs ministers to respond to the petition which was brought to parliament by Ugandans living in United Arab Emirates through MPS Betty Nambooze Bakireke and Makindye west mp Hussein Kyanjo.

Byarugaba told the permanent secretary in the ministry of foreign Affairs to ensure that the ministers appear next time when are summoned by the committee because they have failed to be before the committee for three time now.

The ministers of foreign Affairs were also supposed to explain why ambassador semakula Kiwanuka is not cooperative to Ugandans in United Arab Emirates and respond to issues related to under facilitation of this embassy.

By Isaac Senabulya

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That someone is not even his blue eyed prime minister, Amama Mbabazi, Vice President Kiwanuka Sekandi, Foreign Affairs minister, Sam Kutesa or his blood brother Gen. Salim Saleh.

We have heard from Statehouse that president Museveni would like to copy a leaf from the Democratic Republic of Congo and have his own biological son Col. Muhoozi to replace him.

When President Lawrent Kabila died, he was replaced by his biological son Joseph Kabila so one of the presidential aides at statehouse tells this journalist that even Museveni would wish his son to run the state after him.

A source explains that this is why Museveni has kept Muhoozi out of scandals. A source says that originally Museveni wanted Amama Mbabazi to replace him but it seems his mind has now changed because all his attentions are now on Muhoozi.

A source further says that this is the reason why Muhoozi has started appearing at social scenes like at sports galas, beaches among others such that he sells himself well before the honourable voters. So don’t get surprised when the next president of Uganda is Col.

Muhoozi Kainerugaba. Forget what the constitution provides that in case the president dies, goes mad or resigns his/her vice become interim president. But for security reasons we shall not tell you how Muhoozi will replace his dad Museveni as president.

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Kiyingi has been termed as a servant after he accused Kampala Central MP, Mohammad Nsereko on NBS TV yesterday of fighting the ruling party.

Nsereko in retaliation has told off minister Kiyingi that he is not supposed to talk anything related to NRM because he is an independent MP in the ninth parliament.

Nsereko says that people like Kiyingi misguide president Museveni to think that anyone who criticizes NRM is a rebel. MP Nsereko says that he will continue to criticize the ‘bad’ policies of the ruling government until they are collected.

By James Okello

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