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Asantehene donates land to Ugandan firm for HIV drug manufacturing

Agnes Tumuheire — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 07:58:27 +0000

Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Limited has received land from Ghana King, Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II, to build a factory and manufacture HIV/Aids drugs in Ghana.

Osei throws a Ghana wear over Nabagereka Naginda’s shoulders: Internet Photo

The king’s decision was made upon the request of CIPLA chemicals chief executive, Mr Emmanuel Katongole, on the former’s first visit to the factory, to allow them to export drugs to his country.

On his last tour into the pharmeceutical plant on Wednesday, Otumfuo announced the offer in a meeting with the company’s top officials.

Katongole hailed the Asantehene for his generosity which he believes will yield a lot of fruits especially in the fight against HIV/Aids

“It was a very important opportunity for us to host the Asantehene. He has accepted to provide us land in Ghana to set up a factory,” he stated.

Cipla deals majorly in the manufacturing of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs), Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies and Hepatitis drugs.

Ashanti Otumfuo and Kabaka Ronald Mutebi meet the President Museveni PHOTO BY PPU

Otumfuo commended Museveni during the previous meeting at state house and told him that cultural institutions are embedded within various communities and command respect from subjects and, as such, are an important tool in delivery of services.

“More significant battles today, and those that unite all of us and we must work together to wipe them, are; disease, ignorance and poverty,” Asantehene said.

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Buganda Kingdom Marks 50 years of Lubiri attack

Lucy Kiconco — Wed, 25 May 2016 13:47:10 +0000

The Buganda Kingdom commemorated the 50th anniversary of the historical assault on the palace, on the orders of the then of Uganda, Milton Obote, triggering the 1966 crisis.

Kabaka Edward Muteesa II, the president of the post Colonial Uganda escaped narrowly and fled into exile, after three years of what Obote openly called a puppet government. The attack sparked discontent among majority Baganda and later spurred 1970 coup by army chief Idi Amin against President Obote.

Buganda Kingdom attorney general David Mpanga said commemoration seeks to relay the importance of addressing political challenges with political responses. Mpanga said some of the issues that sparked the Kabaka Crisis have not been answered up to date.

“Political questions should be answered with political answers acceptable democratically. Legal questions should also be answered in court. When Milton Obote attacked Muteesa II, there was power struggle of what was Kabaka’s role politically and undefined sharing of financial resources which have not been resolved to date,” Mpanga said.

“The attack on the Lubiri was answering a political question militarily and 50 years later, we still see political and legal questions being answered militarily,” Mpanga observed.

Buganda deputy prime minister Emmanuel Sendawula said the annual celebrations were ‘ordered’ by Kabaka Ronald Mutebi to remind the young generation of the unfortunate incident that happened to Buganda leaving indelible marks.

Kampala Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga led a brief prayer attended by Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala while Msgr Karoli Kimbowa made a paper presentation of the attack.

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