The process of restructuring Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party structures in villages and districts is ongoing and so far, it has been done well in Luwero district says John Kikonyogo the FDC deputy spokesperson.

Addressing a press conference on Monday at the FDC headquarters in Najjanakumbi, Kikonyogo informed journalists that the party has embarked on restructuring its offices in villages and districts countrywide.

John Kikonyogo the FDC deputy spokesperson

Kikokonyogo informed journalists that, they wrote to Police informing them about the process they are carrying out.

He said they are, however, surprised that during the process of restructuring, a Police constable identified as Sekalema in Mubende districts has gone ahead to disrupt the process.

“We appeal to the Inspector General of Police to inform Police officers regarding the restructuring process the party is carrying out so as to avoid any inconveniences from  Police or Police officers  ” Kikonyogo added.

He further informed journalists that they expect the restructuring process to be completed by the end of this month.

Kikonyogo added that the party has begun celebrating its 15th anniversary. FDC marked 15 years in existence on December 16 last year and yesterday, it started with the Eastern districts of Buikwe, Iganga, Jinja, Busia, Budaka, Kumi, Soroti and Namutumba.

He, however, informed journalists that they don’t expect any interruptions from Police and that in case there is any, they would react.

Kikonyogo further added that the party will on 23 of this month head to the West to continue with its anniversary celebrations and is expected to begin with Ankole.

Source: The New Vision

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The findings are contained in a 2015/16 report that was handed over to Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga at the Parliamentary building by the Chairperson Equal Opportunities Commission, Sylivia Muwebwa Ntambi on Wednesday.

Hon. Rebecca Kadaga the Speaker of Parliament.

Kadaga later lamented that the report was a total embarrassment to the eastern region where she also hails from.

“This is the reason I have started giving text books to schools in Busoga to narrow the gap. We need to bring on board all stakeholders so that we reverse this trend. Children need to get quality education throughout Uganda and we need to see good results,”Kadaga said.

According to the report, the worst performing sub region primary education include Busoga, Teso and Bukedi and these are followed by West Nile, Lango and Acholi. The report mentions the best performing regions in Primary Education as those in Buganda, Ankole, Kigezi, Toro and Bunyoro.
The report further shows that the Eastern region contributes 73% of the poor performing districts of which six are in Busoga  and these include kaliro,Iganga,,Luuka ,Bugiri ,mayuge and Buyende.

It indicates that schools in municipalities perform better than those in main district local governments with performance disparity of 21% for male against 22% of female students.

The findings also reveal that districts within the northern, eastern and West Nile regions are trailing in terms of primary education performance as the chairperson Equal opportunities explains

Ntambi attributed the performance disparities in schools to  poor school inspections by districts education officials, lack of head teacher commitment ,high pupil text book ratio ,poor relationship between the school and the community and refusal of parents and the community to execute their roles in the process of educating a child.

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Our reporters visited Busoga Region/Busoga kingdom today and found out that the hospitals in Bugiri and Iganga districts were in a very miserable state. Our reporter Maureen Nakyanzi reports that for example in Bugiri a patient finds the hospital in a more ill state than the sick people who go to it to get health care services.

She says that they discovered that the mothers in Busoga are on a time bomb of contracting diseases as most of their hospitals were dirty and many toilet facilities were blocked.

For example in Iganga district, the labour theatre leaks and many times the medical personnel report late at work. The major diseases that kill the children of the people of Busoga are mainly measles and malaria.

Also according to the people we interviewed in Busoga, many families don’t have mosquito nets meaning that after being treated of measles they indeed get to be admitted for malaria so the cycle run on and on.

Also at Iganga hospital, we discovered that much of the hospital land had been grabbed by some people claiming to have big government connections.

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Hundreds of students, pupils and general passengers have been seen stranded in taxi and bus parks across the country as heavy traffic jam affected the easy movement of vehicles.

The situation was chaotic in Lango sub region. Most of the students and pupils from there who study in Buganda kingdom schools remained stranded atLiraBusParkas there was no taxi or bus to take them.

Consequently many pupils and students who study in central region from northern Ugandan have not reported to school today as per the programme.

In Masaka, Mbarara, Nakasongola, Mbale, Jinja and Iganga among other districts the passengers blamed the taxi and bus operators of hiking transport fares. There was heavy deployment of traffic police along the roads to curb road accidents.

By Moureen Nakyanzi

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The Kampala FDC offices are located on City House building in Kampala. The managers of the building, ‘Crane management’ have already notified FDC about the move to close their offices and have their property thrown out over failure to pay rent for the last six months. It would be the third time landlords to close FDC offices in a period of less than four months.

 The first FDC office to be closed was that of Entebbe and last week the FDC office in Iganga was closed after the party failed to clear a debt of 2.4 million shillings which had accumulated as rent arrears. However one of the FDC chiefs in charge of Buganda region, Ibrahim Kasozi says that all the problems facing FDC Kampala offices would be solved soon.

He assured us that the offices would not be closed as the whole situation is under control. We hear that all the money meant to pay rent for FDC offices were used in last year’s general elections. By James Okello

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It is not only because it is the first time the NRM party lost a major constituency in by elections in its 26 year rule but because the lose of Luweero seat to an opposition symbolized a major loss of trust in the party by Ugandans in Luweero, who supported the ruling government during its five year liberation armed struggle.

Since the end of the recently concluded 2011 general elections, NRM has lost over 10 parliamentary election court petitions.
Political observers some of them within the ruling NRM party anticipate that Ugandans are about to see NRM lose more by-elections in places like Bukoto central in Masaka, Butambala, Iganga among others.

Hajji Naduli, the chairperson of NRM in Buganda says that the ruling party is losing by elections to opposition due to intrigue and disunity among NRM cadres in the country.

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