Intelligence reports have revealed that sections of Al Shabab fighters in Somalia have penetrated Uganda’s international airport whereby the members of the said terrorist group use the airport to run their activities at ease. We have also been told that the rebels use Nairobo as their base after Entebbe.

The intelligence officers were also shocked to run that the Al Shabaab fighters who the Uganda national army, the UPDF is fighting in Uganda have many representatives and supporters in Uganda. President Museveni or the government sent the UPDF soldiers to Somalia without the consent of Uganda Parliament or the consent of Ugandans. When one listens on radio talk shows in Kampala, notices that indeed many Ugandans did not support President Museveni to send soldiers to Somalia.

An intelligence officer at Entebbe Airport told our informer that the Al Shabaab commanders bribe some security officers at Entebbe Airport to travel to the rest of the world through Entebbe Airport. Even the UPDF leadership confirms that some of the Al Shabaab commanders travel through Entebbe International Airport without being noticed by the airport security.

This new intelligence revelation shows how Uganda is still vulnerable to Al Shabaab actions. In July 2011 the suspected Al Shabaab terrorists bombed Uganda in which attack over 76 Ugandans died and scores injured.

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Kampala former Mayor, Hajji Nasser Sebaggala has revealed that president Museveni used him to fight DP promising to make him great in the country’s politics.

In a shocking revelation to his supporters on Saturday at his Bugolobi home, Sebaggala said he was not happy with president Museveni. “He used me to fight DP and later wooed me out of DP promising to make me a minister but instead used parliament to block my appointment,” one of his supporters who attended the meeting quoted him as saying.

Sebaggala has started saying that president Museveni is a traitor. He says that the president can give you something with the right hand and takes it away with the left hand. Sebaggala likens Museveni with the former DP President John Sebaana Kizito. Sebaggala says Sebaana persuaded him to pull out of the 2006 presidential race promising to support him for mayorship but instead supported his rival, Hajji Takuba Kibirige. Fortunately Sebaggala won the race.

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The power generation at the dam is managed through a concession by Eskom, a South African power firm. The company supervises its own generation depending on the water levels they discharge.

Mugisha Shillingi, the Director of Water Resource Management told the committee headed by West Budama North MP, Jacob Oboth Oboth, that there has never been any expert deployed to monitor on behalf of government the water levels to ensure the recommended quantity is discharged. The MPs were shocked by the stack revelation and said that many of them have always doubted the argument that drought is to blame for the receding water levels that have contributed to the rampant power shortage and outages.

During his testimony, Shillingi refused to divulge all the information that the Oboth committee wanted, including data of how much water is discharged by the two dams; Nalubale and Kiira. He angered the committee members when he told them he had not properly understood their letter asking him to appear before them last week.

He said he would return to appear later when he is more organized with data of water levels spanning a whole 40 years. The members said they were constrained to interview him in light of the inadequate information he had provided for them and agree they would re-summon him to testify on Thursday this week.

Shillingi said that in September this year, President Yoweri Museveni, through a letter to the Minister in charge of water, directed that 1,000 Cubic meters per second of water should be discharged by Eskom for power generation. He said that that is the same quantity that is being discharged currently but added that this could affect the water level.

He recommended that the best quantity should be 800 cubic meters per second.

Shillingi kept apologizing for many failures under him in the department, including the failure to provide monitoring and evaluation of the water levels on behalf of the country, leaving Ugandans at the mercy of a private and foreign power generator called Eskom.

Eng. Gabriel Ajedra, a member of the committee, said he was not surprised by the shocking revelation because he has never been convinced by the drought explanation for power shortages. He said he does not think that as a private business, Eskom can tell the whole truth when their interest is making profits.

Ajedra said it is possible that Eskom could release either more than what is directed or less, scenarios that are both dangerous to Uganda.

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The revelation follows the pressure by the Uganda Taxi Operators and Drivers Association (UTODA) asking KCCA to repair the parks, which it said are in a miserable state.

The Kampala Capital City Authority Executive Director, Jennifer Musisi says that the former KCC leadership sold a number of plots around the parks and the current leadership doesn’t know exactly the space remaining to operate the taxi park.

She says that KCCA shall start redeveloping the Taxis Parks after the cases in court are disposed of.

Musisi says that it is not good to spend billions of shillings on repairing the parks and all over sudden the ruling coming out that KCCA has developed the parts which do not belong to it.

She however says that KCCA will do some simple repair on the Taxi Parks to save the passengers and taxis of the mud during the rain seasons.

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