In what looks like violation of peoples’ inherent rights, Uganda police arrested and reportedly detained seven men in toilets. The seven men were arrested by the police at Nyeihanga Trading Centre in NdeijaSubCounty in Rwampara constituency in Mbarara District on Thursday 07/02/2013.

The suspects locked up in police toilets are Mr Baguma Nelson, Mr Mutungi Nicholas, Mr Mushabe Edgar, Mr Mukasa Badru, Mr Tumusiime Brian, Mr Nabasa Godius, Mr Tugumizemu Brian and another unidentified gentle man so the total number of the suspects locked up is eight (8).

Sources privy to this information told us that the suspects have been detained at Mbarara police post. It is also said that this police post uses rooms which were meant to be used as toilets to work as police cells where treason suspects are detained.  These people have been under police detention since Thursday last week and they have been charged with treason when they demonstrated over UMEME (ELECTRICITY) load-shedding last Friday.

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According to the Kisenyi 2 LC1 chairman Swaibu Kwenyi, the village has only one public toilet which was constructed eight years ago and not operational anymore.

He says the community is at high risk of contracting diseases like cholera due to poor hygiene.

He says that many people in such communities still use polythene bags that are littered in drainages.

The day was gazetted by the UN general assembly to highlight the importance of toilets in ensuring proper hygiene.

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Makerere University has invented mobile toilets to be used by people living in slum areas such.

The project manager, Amin Tamala says that the metallic toilet facility has been designed to incorporate the application of solar energy in the functioning of the mobile trailer toilets.

Amin Tamala says that areas such as Kalerwe, Bwaise and Katanga which have a high water table which cannot allow them to construct normal pit latrines may use the new toilet solutions.

The new toilets can also work well for refugees and those people in disaster prone areas like Bududu.
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Makerere University has designed metallic mobile toilets code named ‘Smart Portable public trailer toilets’.

The metallic mobile toilets are in a trailer like form and they are intended to benefit masses especially urban centers and slum communities in Uganda.
The metallic mobile toilets have been constructed using metallic materials. The metallic mobile toilets technology is new in Uganda and in Africa. These metallic mobile toilets have four units. The metallic toilets have been designed by Makerere University’s College of engineering design, Art and Technology under the Architecture and mechanical engineering.

Dr. Allan Birabi, the project team researcher says that the metallic mobile toilets would benefit the urban residents and communities facing with poor sanitation where access to clean and decent toilet facilities is a problem.

The metallic mobile toilets can be used by major institutions with poor toilet facilities like schools, hospitals, and army and police barracks.

The metallic mobile toilets will integrate the unique qualities of a portable, self-contained toilet model with the dynamic ecological systems of urban centers in Uganda.

The professors at Makerere University say that the smart public toilets will also cater for the needs of disabled people which most current mobile toilets tend to ignore.

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Latest research shows that among the dirtiest places in our homes/ houses, toilets or chickens are the doors.

The research discoveries indicate that doors harbour all sorts of diseases causing organisms.

The germs on door handlers are introduced by people that touch them depending on what one is suffering from for example alimentary canal germs, viruses, common cold, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs).

Some people especially in Africa don’t clean their hands after toilet use but they simply touch on the door handles.

Some diseases/ infections like red eyes infections can be minimised by hand  washing with soap and running water and it should be at least once a day or more times.

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Have you ever thought about the debris that rests on a brush after you have used it to clean inside our toilets?

Some of the brushes we use to clean our toilets at home are stored in bowl-like containers.

But both the brush and the bowls our brushes are kept after cleaning the toilets can be a breeding ground for various germs and bacteria.

It should be disinfected at least weakly with hot water. Besides habouring germs, a dirty toilet brush leaves the toilet room with an odour.

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The students were demonstrating over poor sanitation in their toilets and internship money. When they went to demand for an explanation why the toilets could not be fixed and why they could not get their internship money the arrogant IT professor could not give them an appropriate explanation.

He was only advising the already charged students to keep quiet so that he talks to them. This prompted the angry students to get stones and canes so that they could discipline him. The IT professor had first refused to address these students and he locked himself in his office until the intervention of prof. Tanga Odoi, the chairperson of Makerere University Academic Staff Association.

The students also demanded for his resignation. The police intervened and the IT professor managed to escape.

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The proprietor of Super FM has bought another new pad in Rubaga division where his residential home is found. The house is located on Kasirye road in Rubaga division.

We are told that Sematimba bought the pad from an army officer at 600 million shillings. Sematimba has already repainted the posh house and he is now looking for tenants to occupy it.

Sematimba has renovated every part of the house including the toilets, bathrooms among others.

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 Ms Alupo says that her ministry has got reports that some schools in the country especially in rural areas and slums operate without toilets or pit latrines.

 The minister was today addressing journalists at the ministry’s board room in Kampala Capital City Authority.

 Alupo also says that the heads of schools manning UPE and USE schools should report to her office toilets and pit latrines that have filled up.

By James Okello

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But this time the police are not in the compound of Mr. Besigye or toilets as it was the case last time. We have been told by the detectives that the police officers have been told to besiege Besigye’s farm in Kasangati such that he doesn’t move on foot.

When our informer visited Besigye’s home this afternoon, he saw a police vehicle registration number UP 2958 parked opposite Besigye’s home. Most of the policemen deployed around Besigye’s home dressed in civilian clothes.

The police had recently withdrawn its officers from the home of Besigye although their commander, Sam Omara told journalists during their departure that the police had left Besigye’s home just to get lunch and come back.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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