A source in Buganda kingdom headquarters in Bulange Mengo told us on phone today that the kingdom is set to offer 81,000 bursaries to children from unprivileged families in different parts of the country.

One of the officials in the kingdom’s education ministry, Church Ambrose Bukenya tells us that the kingdom is greatly over whelmed by the bursaries the head teachers of the schools have offered to the kingdom of Buganda.

Bukenya says that the 81,000 bursaries are valued at 1.2 billion shillings. To get the bursaries, the applicants have to approach Kabaka’s chiefs in different parts of the country.

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We are reliably informed that the government has bought the second batch of bicycles for LCI chairpersons across the country.

The sources in the line ministry tells this reporter that each LCI chairperson across the country will get his or her bicycle before the LCI national elections could be held.

The Government first promised to buy LCI chairpersons bicycles in September 2009.

President Museveni in September 2009 told Parliament that the government would buy bicycles for the LCI chairpersons and motorcycles for LCIII.

He said the LC3 and Gombolola chiefs had already got the motorcycles. But we have not yet known when the LCI chairpersons would get the bicycles promised to them.

By Moureen Nakyanzi

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