A few years back people in Teso sub district and Kayunga were feeding on mangoes and jack fruits to survive, but as you read this, people in Luwero, Nakasongola and adjacent districts are living on jackfruit (ffene) to be able to survive.

A couple of years back I witnessed a very sorry scene near the road branching off to Kiruhura where cows, humans and Impalas were sharing very dirty brown water at different ends of a small pond!

Then president Museveni is bent on selling off Mabira forest even without any attempts at re-forestation anywhere in the country. It seems generations to come they will say that our generation was Uganda’s Amageddon!!!!

The district LC 5 chairman of Luweero district, Hajji Lt. Abudul Nadduli attributes poverty and hunger in Luweero to laziness in some peoples’ homes. He says some of the area residents don’t want to work.

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 The leaders from four sub counties of Bufumbira north say that the area has been marginalized with bad roads and bridges yet it is a tourism center where government collects a lot of revenue for the country.

 MP Kamara says the proposed Mutanda district which borders with congo has a number of big markets serving both countries , Bwindi national park , minerals like lime stone and if curved out , they will have the capacity to maintain it.

 He says kisoro is now one of the biggest district in the country compared to those that have been curved out.

 The mp says that it will be difficult to convince the people to vote for the current government if they are denied a district.

 Kamara says he has bought some ambulances for the mothers in the area but they cannot be used because of poor roads.

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Kumi district director health services Dr John Opolot says monitoring is not effective because of the limited resource envelop.

He says the district has 17 health units but the limited funds challenge has undermined the proper monitoring of the same.

He says unless this is addressed, it will be hard for the officials to effectively monitor services in the health sector.

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This follows a group of councilors from Mpungu  Sub County appearing before the committee and accused area politicians Garuga Musinguzi and mp  for Kinkizi East  Dr. Chris Baryomunsi of sabotaging their effort to belong to kihihi ditrict which is supported by most of the leaders in Kanungu district.

kintu noted that political and religious differences are used by people to block the creation of kihihi district .

The councilors from Mpungu Sub County led by their speaker sam Twehangane told the committee that their voters need to be part of kihihi district and leave Kanungu because they do not access services like health service delivery yet the area has a population of 10000 people.

Mps had noted that the same councilors had earlier opposed the creation of kihihi district which is supported  the woman mp for Kanungu district Elizabeth karungi and the prime minister John Patrick Mbabazi but later they changed their mind and are now supporting the creation of this district.

The councilors   accused their fellow councilor Frank Byaruhanga who is opposed to the creation of kihihi district and accused him of being used by mp Dr. Chris Baryomunsi to block the district creation.

The councilors accuse mp Chris Baryomunsi of trying to block the people   of Mpungu Sub County to belong to the new district of kihihi when he is an outsider of the area.

Reliable sources in Kanungu say that political heavy weights are fighting each other in favour and against the creation of a new district basing on political, religious differences and economic benefits.

Kanungu district which is going to be dived for another district was curved from Rukungiri district.

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This comes after parliament approved 39 billion out of 260 billion including the salary enhancement and recruitment of Health workers country wide.

This has been revealed by the Commissioner for clinical health Services Jacinta Amandwa during a consultative meeting with the district Health Officers, Chief Administrative Officers Secretaries for Health on recruitment of Health workers at common wealth Speke resort Munyonyo.

Amandwa says they are going to focus on district which are very far and also in remote areas, he adds that lack enough manpower in the health sector has affected so much this sector and the exercise is likely to kick off  Friday this week till Monday.

He says the medical staffs mentioned and approved by the Uganda Medical Service bureau and Uganda Medical commission are the only ones going to be recruitment country wide.

The consultative meetings aims at finalizing the district recruitment plans for Health center 4s and Health center 3s and agree on the next steps and timeliness for the recruitment process.

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Kalangala is one of the first districts created by president Museveni’s NRM government in 1990w but it has the same woes like new districts.

It is shocking that simple diseases kill people in Kalangala because the district has only two doctors serving a population of over two million people.

According to the officer in-charge of Kalangala district health centre, Steven Sonko, one of the doctors is the District Health Officer (DHO) doing administrative work for the district.

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President Museveni’s government this week announced that it had approved 25 new districts in Uganda. The NRM government of president Museveni captured power through an armed struggle when Uganda had only 25 districts, 26 years later the country now has 137 districts.

However it is expensive to support a district. It requires a district council councilors, district chairperson and deputy, a resident district commissioner (RDC), chief administrative officer and his assistants, district planner, district education officer, district environment officer, district agricultural officer, NAADS coordinator, secretaries, DPC, CIDs, district service commission, district land board, district health officer, sub county chiefs and so many other technical staff members all drawing hefty salaries and allowances.

Many of the new districts Museveni’s government create have few sources of income where some of the districts created cannot pay their public servants, and must rely on their mother districts for support.

President Museveni’s government claim that it creates new districts to improve service delivery but in places where most of these new districts have been created the said service deliveries have not been realized.

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The ongoing wrangles between Ms Musisi and the Kampala district land Boss Yusufu Nsibambi who is also a prominent lawyer in town ranges from the land in Kampala which is so prime that Ms Musisi wants to give to her bosses without following the proper procedure of the area land committee more so in a fraudulent manner that a man of Nsibambi’s caliber cannot accept.

We are told that Jenifer now opts to change the whole administration of the committee so as to bring in rubberstamp administrators whom she can influence upon decisions of her bosses. Upon realization of this, the lord mayor of Kampala, Erias Lukwago quickly intervened to give Nsibambi an office so as to form a solid frontline of professionals against Ms Jenifer Musisi.

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The members were Dorris Nalwadda, a youth councilor and Emanuel Bukenya, an LC5 councilor representing Mutundwe and Bunamwaya parishes to Wakiso district councilor. What surprised people most is that one of the councilors was a member of the Democratic Party (DP) and the other one, a female was from the National Resistance Movement.

The doctors are yet to establish what killed the two members of the district council. But we have been told that Nalwadda Dorris will be buried in Lwengo district while Bukenya in Mitala Maria on Kampala Masaka road.

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Shock and grief befell on people of Kampala on Friday morning when a woman jumped from the 14th floor of Workers House building and died.

The woman was identified as Justine Nalugya, a resident of Kampala district. The relatives to the deceased said that Nalugya was so stressed because she had a degree from Makerere University but she had not been employed for the last three years. Rose Nambi, a relative to the deceased told the people who had gathered at the scene of suicide that Nalugya walked to Workers House this morning expecting to get a job.

“She told us that a certain friend of hers called Peter had promised to connect her to a job today Friday. She had even mobilized funds from us to bribe the employer for the job. It seems when she reached there she discovered that Peter had conned her and she decided to end her life,” she hopes.

The deceased was dressed in a black skirt and a yellow blouse. She first folded her skirt and threw her bag down before jumping to her death. The police are hunting for a man identified as Peter to help it with its investigations. The problem is that there are 18 men at Workers House with a name Peter. So the police have found it hard to establish which Peter the deceased had gone to see. The police have taken Nalugya’s body to Mulago hospital.

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