Many people of Uganda are in fear after learning that Muslim leaders are secretly in meetings to run national wide protests over the death of Sheikh Abdul Karim Sentamu.

The Muslims say that they gave president Museveni and the Inspector General of Police, Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura an ultimatum of only 14 days to publish the report why ‘they’ murdered Sheikh Abudul Karim Sentamu. Sheikh Sentamu was shot dead near William street mosque.

A prominent sheikh at Kibuli Mosque says that the ultimatum expired on May 5^th 2012 and the report has not come out by Monday 7th May 2012. The sheikh says that following the government’s refusal to honour the ultimatum calls for national wide Muslim protests. The sheikh says the date for the protests would be communicated soon.

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The ministry of education and sports has informed the Chief Administrative Officers, district chairpersons, district education officers, municipal education officers, districts security officers, and heads of schools that there will be a national head count exercise for S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 and S6 students on Universal Secondary Education (USE) schools in Uganda.

The permanent secretary of the education ministry, Dr. YK Nsubuga says that there would also be head count for year one, year two, and year three students in primary, technical, and vocational education training institutions participating in the implementation of Universal Post Primary Education and Training programme on Tuesday 27^th march.

He says that the exercise will be conducted jointly with the ministry of education, internal security organisations, and ministry of local government.

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The new leadership in Libya has announced that stamps on official and consular documents bearing the symbols of the regime of late Col. Muammar Gadaffi ‘the great’ as null and void.

The statement the new leaders of Libya sent to all African presidents reads, “the Libyan government announces the cancellation of all official and consular stamps bearing the names of the, “Great socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya” and “the Libyan Arab Peoples’ bureau.”

However it has been also cleared that the new changes will not affect the Libyan documents in the hands of world governments. Any document signed prior to the new leadership in Libya remains valid because the defunct government of Gadaffi was then recognized worldwide. The people travelling to Libya must have documents bearing the new stamps. Gadaffi’s leadership collapsed in August when the former rebels of the Libyan Transitional National Council over throw the old regime.

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A new political pressure group similar to Activists for Change (A4C) has launched its national wide programme in Kampala.

The pressure group of concerned Ugandan citizens has been named the National Action for Awakening Uganda (NAAU ). It officially launched shop at Fair Way hotel in Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA).

Its national coordinator is businessman Frank Gashumba. The leaders of Awakening Uganda hope to bring on board all political pressure groups in Uganda to stage a joint pressure group against President Museveni’s reported despotic regime.

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The National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has disconnected Kyambogo University leaving the toilets there to stink.

The students and some of the administrators of Kyambogo University allege that NWSC disconnected the institution of learning over non payment. Now over 20,000 people the university houses are fetching water from nearby wells and dirty water sources.

Now we are told that the university’s sanitation and health services are poor due to the shortage of water at Kyambogo University.

Kyambogo University has been failing to address water problems for over three times. The students at Kyambogo University are planning a violent strike if their university fails to address the water crisis.

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Uganda is experiencing TB drugs but the National Resistance Movement government is planning to import the TB drugs in September. Today is March 15, 2012. We don’t know whether TB patients will not have died by September. Currently most hospitals in Uganda have run out of drugs.

The minister for Health, Christine Ondoa has told a press conference in Kampala this morning that the Government has earmarked 4 billion shillings to procure TB drugs starting with the month of September.

Ondoa says that the government is planning to distribute the drugs once imported to both private and government aided health centers across the country. TB is still one of the major causes of death in Uganda and Africa in general. Uganda registers, according to the ministry of health 330 per 1000 patients who report at the hospitals.

Uganda also experiences inadequate supply of fluorescent microscopes used in laboratories. The few microscopes the country has were procured a few years back by Global Fund grants.

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The retreat kicked off on March 5^th and closed on March 7^th. It attracted representatives from the Democratic Party, Forum for Democratic Change, Justice Forum, National Resistance Movement, Uganda Peoples Congress and the Conservative Party.

Each of the 40 participants who attended the conference got 500,000 shillings as sitting allowance daily for three days.

The retreat was held under the theme “The role of the National Consultative Forum in supporting political parties copes with challenges in a growing democracy: The Uganda case.”

By James Okello

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The coordinator of A4C Mathias Mpuuga says that the group is planted in opposition to throw stones at the police such that the force gets a chance to ban the A4C rallies.

The police last week warned to ban A4C rallies on grounds that the leaders of A4C have failed to control their members from being violent.

The Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura last week warned A4C to stop holding rallies without police permission. However Mathias Mpuuga says the government created the stone throwing group to discredit opposition.

Mpuuga says that the government and the Police own these stone-throwing men who disguise as opposition activists and throw stones at police and innocent citizens.

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The intelligence reports indicate that the police have already arrested an LCI chairperson of Kasharara Village in Sanga Sub-county, Kiruhura District with boxes of ammunition.

The South Western Region Police Commander, Paul Nkore confirms that the police have arrested an LCI chairperson with boxes of ammunition. He says that the police are also investigating the guards at the home of late Maj. Gen. James Kazini’s home in Sanga.

The region police commander says that police have interrogated the LCI official and it has got crucial information highly needed in security circles.

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Uganda’s capital city Kampala.

A source in government told us that one of the ministers of Education and sports has already directed Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to ensure that all schools inKampalaare removed before the end of 2012.

The KCCA official in charge of planning, Joseph Sentongo says that the move is intended to decongest the city.

The development is likely to affect thousands of pupils and students who have been trekking miles to study inKampala. Some children of the rich persons, especially those who have connections with the ruling party, the National Resistance Movement have been transported twenty miles away to study in Uganda’s capital city Kampala.

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