The Directorate of Ethics and Integrity is in final stages of drafting a bill that will allow individual Ugandans to sue corrupt government ministers, president among other public officials.

The bill against the corrupt will be called ‘’quintum bill 2012.’ The bill will allow individual Ugandans to provide information and the Attorney General will be required to support that individual Ugandan or Ugandans in courts of law.

 The minister of state for Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo says that the individual Ugandan or group of people who will win a case against the corrupt public servants will get 25% of the proceeds of the suit.

He says that when stolen items are recovered, they will have to be sold and the people who filed the case will get 25% of the sale proceeds. We are told that the bill is being financed by the World Bank and Amnesty international.

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The ministry of health has says many hospitals are reporting increased cases of diabetes in different parts of the country.

Dr. Richard Nduhura, Uganda's Minister of State for Health

The ministry’s program manager in charge of non-communicable diseases Dr. James Sekajugo says the cases of diabetes have increased by 5% over the last decade.

He says if the trend is not checked, they could be 10 times more over the next 10 years.

Dr. Sekajugo attributes the trend of increasing diabetes to the lack of physical exercise, bad eating habits, especially foods only rich in sugar, salt and fat.

He adds that people consuming alcohol and tobacco are also more prone to contracting diabetes than those who don’t

The disease has mainly been noted among the elderly above 50 years of age and the children.

The state health minister in charge of general duties Dr. Richard Nduhura says a sensitization campaign will kick off next week on how to prevent and control diabetes and other non-communicable diseases.

The campaign which will be conducted at a cost of 1 million US dollars kicks of Monday next week as Uganda marks the World Day against diabetes.

By Olive Eyotaru

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