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Bogoya provides potassium and sodium good for your body

Gerald Businge — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:28:37 +0000

bogoya bananas are a delicacy and good for health

Bogoya (call it Cavendish) is a type of banana. Many times bogoya is eaten when ripe. The potassium and sodium content in bananas regulates the body’s water balance.

The more potassium one has the more fluids there is in his or her body hence preventing dehydration e.g. if one has diarrhea and takes bananas.

Bogoya help to replace the lost fluid. The bananas are also excellent in stressing busters due to their high potassium. They are good in managing intestinal and liver-related disorder like inflammation of the stomach walls.

However you should avoid unripe banana’s (bogoya) because they contain significant amounts of starch that causes flatulence (gas accumulation in the stomach) and indigestion.

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Family members who have been secretly killing people for over 20 years arrested

Gerald Businge — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:46:28 +0000

Family has been reportedly ambushing people, robs of their properties, kills them and then secretly buries them in banana plantations. The bodies have been exhumed by the Police today, walakira Nyanzi reports.

The discovery of the bodies shocked people. The bodies were found in a banana plantation owned by a medical assistant, Wilson Karaira, a resident of Kajara cell in Kanungu district. Kanungu is the place where a man called Joseph Kibwetere burnt live over 1000 people in 2000.

The police have arrested Karaira’s wife, Gorret Kabaza, and her two sons Philip Asiimwe and Francis Monday in connection with the robberies and murders. Other suspects are on the run.

Eye witnesses told the media that some of the bodies exhumed had been stripped naked and their genitals chopped off. Traditionalists tell the media that it seems the people behind the murder chopped off the genitors and put them in shrines to stop the spirits from attacking them.

The police say that the owners of the land to disguise the graves planted banana plantations on them. To a non member of the family, the graves were hard to be seen.

The bodies discovered were decomposed and could not easily be identified. The police have told the media that the members of this family according to preliminary investigations would ambush bicycle riders, loaded businessmen and women, motorcycle riders and sometimes they would invite rich people in their homes, murder them and take the money they might have moved with.

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Ibrahim Sekagya eyes soccer academy

Gerald Businge — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:00:17 +0000

Uganda Cranes captain Ibrahim Sekagya is reported to be in advanced stages of opening up his own soccer academy in the pearl of Africa ( Uganda ).

His family relatives intimate to us that Sekagya plans to dwell on running his soccer academy affairs when he retires from the pitch.

His success in soccer could have inspired him to start up a soccer academy which he wants to be based in Masaka. A source says that Sekagya believes Uganda can win many football trophies if a well equipped soccer academy is built in the ‘banana’ republic.

By Christine Kate

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