Amudat, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The joint security forces in Amudat district are hunting for a gang of armed criminals who shot dead a secondary school teacher. David Chelimo, a teacher at Pokot seed secondary school in Karita town council was shot dead by armed criminals who also robbed him. …
Read More »Amudat officials impersonate journalists to benefit from Emyooga funds
Amudat, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Amudat Resident District Commissioner William Bwatum, and LC V chairperson Joseph Lobot were shocked last week after learning that some civil servants had impersonated journalists to benefit from the Emyooga program. Information about the ghost journalist’s Sacco came to the fore three days before …
Read More »Amudat district stuck with 37 child marriage escapees
Amudat, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Amudat district is currently stuck with 37 Pokot girls below the age of 18 who were being forced into child marriage. This is according to the Moroto District Education Officer Lawot Anthony Lam who was meeting with a section of the Parliament COVID-19 taskforce for …
Read More »Amudat Chairperson remanded over theft of office vehicle
Amudat, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Amudat LC5 chairperson Francis Kiyonga Adamson has been charged in Matugga Grade I magistrate’s court with stealing a district vehicle valued at sh130m. Latif Nakibinge, the grade I magistrate who remanded Kiyonga to Kasangati government prison until March 31st when his bail application will be …
Read More »Expectant mothers in Amudat travel 40 kilometres to deliver in Kenya
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Expectant mothers in Amudat district trek a distance of more than 40 kilometres to access maternal services in neighboring Kenya. This is a result of lack of adequate facilities and midwives in the district. According to records at the district health department, there are …
Read More »Amudat girls use lockdown to sneak to Kenya to be circumcized
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is on the rise in Amudat district according to officials and anti FGM activists. Uganda in 2010 outlawed the harmful practice, but despite the legal instrument, the country has struggled ending the practice among the Pokot girls. URN reports …
Read More »Honey production changes fortunes for communities in Amudat
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Amudat district in Karamoja sub region has the potential to produce up to 50 tons of honey annually. Honey production has been changing fortunes for residents in Amudat district who initially relied heavily on cattle keeping and subsistence farming. For the last two years, …
Read More »Why Parliament Committee ordered arrest of Amudat finance officer
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The Amudat District Chief Finance Officer John Bosco Luchugi, was last week arrested on the orders of the Local Government Accounts Committee of Parliament for allegedly mismanaging and illegally spending billions of monies meant for works in the district. Luchugi, who appeared before the Committee …
Read More »Local gov’t car impounded in Amudat, 2 Arrested with 49kg ivory
Police in Amudat has arrested two people in possession of 49.1kg of ivory reportedly worth sh19.6 million. A Local Government Double Cabin Hilux Pick up No. LG 0084-52 was also impounded, as it was being used to transport the contraband. Samuel Lokwale, 27, a peasant and Edis Labatir, 32 , …
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