Speaking during a council meeting today, Lukwago said that it’s unfortunate that the executive director continues to absent herself from the meetings with no genuine reason given.

Lukwago says he will be forced to send the councilors on a recess if the trend continues.

A committee led by the Deputy Lord Mayor Suleiman Kidandala has also been formed to engage the minister in charge of presidency about the matter.

The Executive director Jennifer Musisi has made it clear that she will not attend any meetings until the minister in charge of Kampala advises on her role in such meetings.

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In an Islamic faith, men lead in prayers. This is why they take the front seats in the mosque, according to Mufti Shaban Ramadhan Mubajje and the deputy director of Shariah at the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council, Yahaya Kakungulu.

Mubajje also denies that separating women in the mosques is a form of discrimination. Mubajje says that the Islamic faith and Quran glorifies women more than men.

The deputy director of Shariah also says that they separate women from men in the mosques to prevent both sexes from getting involved in sexual intercourse.

He says that in Islamic faith and understanding prevention is better than cure.

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The Director of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) ms Jenifer Musisi Semakula is a member of the ruling National Resistance Movement as well as a civil servant. As you may know the political hatred in Uganda amongst political parties is high, no one would expect that Ms Musisi would sit in a corner with the leaders of opposition Democratic Party and talk business.

But this happened. The president of DP Norbert Mao, Legal Advisor Mukasa Denis Fred Mbidde and DP secretary general Mathias Nsubuga on Tuesday met with Ms Musisi and they discussed issues concerning reconciliation and development of Kampala.

The meeting took place at City Hall building inKampala. Top on the agenda was to forge a good working relationship between Musisi and Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago. Lukwago did not attend the meeting because he is out of the country on official assignment. Ms Musisi told the DP squad that she has no personal vendetta with Lukwago. She explained that it’s Lukwago who seems to have a personal hatred on her. Mbidde says that after they have got the side of Musisi, they will also summon Lukwago to give them his views and after they try to reconcile the rivalKampalaleaders.

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The director of KCCA had earlier issued a directive last week that the vendors get stalls in city markets and leave Old and New Taxi Parks today.

Kayihura halted the eviction after receiving reports that the vendors were planning to burn taxis during the eviction. A source in police says that the traders will still be evicted soon.

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Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has finalized plans to turn Owino (St. Balikuddembe) market into a largest shopping mall in East and centralAfrica.

The sources at KCCA told our informers that the council plans to spend 28 million US dollars in the reconstruction of Owino into a modern and largest shopping mall.

The KCCA director, Ms Jenifer Musisi says that the shopping mall once completed would accommodate over 25 traders. She advised all traders in Owino to cooperate with KCCA in order to make its plan of modernizing Owino market a total success.

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She says that the commuter taxi drivers have no choice but to pay the 120,000 shillings if they want to remain in Kampala. Ms Musisi says that she will not be moved by the strikes the taxi drivers stage. The taxi drivers suggest that they are capable of paying only 70,000 shillings to the council.

Ms Musisi says that the request of the taxi drivers is unacceptable and whoever doesn’t want to pay 120,000 shillings should better leave the taxi business.

The KCCA director says that the council will impound all the taxis whose owners have not paid the tax rates.  Ms Musisi says that the new taxi fees will be enforced by UTODA and the interim taxi management committee.

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Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) councilors boycotted a meeting called by the Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago. Lukwago had called the meeting to approve the fees for taxi operators working in Kampala. The meeting failed to take place on Wednesday at KCCA head offices in Kampala.

Lukwago told journalists that it was the councilors who had requested him to call the meeting but he was surprised when the same councilors rejected the meeting they had wanted.

The councilors were supposed to endorse the 120; 000 shillings set by the KCCA director, Jenifer Musisi or endorse the taxi drivers’ proposal to pay 70, 000 shillings per month.

Only six councilors turned up for the meeting with Lukwago. We are told that the KCCA director took the councilors who were meant to be in Lukwago’s meeting on a tour of the city.

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The business city of Tanzania was chosen by Bank of Africa to host meetings for the Bank of Africa Group countries in East and central Africa. The meetings will run this week.

Other countries scheduled to attend the meeting are Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Madagascar and Djibouti. The meetings will be presided over by the President of the Bank of Africa Group, Mohamed Bennani and the managing director of Bank of Africa Tanzania, Ammish Owusu-Amoah.

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UBOS today released its monthly market report indicating that the annual headline inflation rate for the year ending January 2012 dropped to 25.7% from 27.0% recorded for the year ended December 2011.

Releasing the report in Kampala, the director macro economics statistics, Dr. Mukiza Chris states that food inflation decreased to 27.3% in January 2012 from 34.6% in December 2011 with non food prices inflation rising to 24.2% in January 2012.

UBOS Sya that the reduction on fuel prices, as well prices of food stuffs contributed greatly to the drop inflation.

Dr. Mukiza says that Arua registered the highest annual headline inflation rate of 39.3% compared to40.7% in December followed by Mbale and Kampala standing at 26.1% from 24.7% in December due to high income.

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 The Executive Director of KCCA, Ms Jenifer Musisi says that the authority wants the traffic light in the city to be functioning. She says this will end cases of theft in the city due to darkness. She was speaking to KCCA Councilors inKampalatoday evening.

 Ms Musisi says that when the traffic lights are functioning that means good flow of traffic at night. She says that installing the street lights will kick off soon.

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