Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mityana Woman Member of Parliament Joyce Bagala has retained her parliamentary seat after the Court of Appeal dismissed a High Court decision that had nullified her election. Bagala, a candidate of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) won the January 14, 2021 polls with a …
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Mityana , Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Lands, Sam Mayanja has directed Anna Namirembe, a Kibanja holder in Mityana district to return to her plot of land where she was evicted after occupying it for the more than four decades. It is alleged that the landlord identified …
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Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Mityana District is hunting a group of gunmen who mounted a roadblock and robbed an unspecified amount of money from passengers aboard a Kampala-bound Link Bus. It is alleged that the passengers were traveling on a night bus from Bundibugyo when the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The General Court Martial in Kampala has heard that the two police officers who were killed in Mityana district last year, were tricked into pursuing suspected robbers on the basis of a false complaint. 19 suspects, believed to be members of the Uganda National Coalition, …
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Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mityana municipality council meeting on Thursday flopped after councilors protested the continued imprisonment of National Unity Platform-NUP supporters. The angry councilors, the majority from NUP note that a number of people were arrested and imprisoned during the 2021 campaigns and election period on false …
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Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Property worth millions of shillings has been destroyed after a fire gutted a furniture workshop at Kibibi village, Mityana municipality. The fire destroyed chairs, beds, machines, and hand tool equipment among others. The fire broke out at Kibibi garage in Mityana district on Tuesday morning. Swaib …
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Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mityana municipality has introduced garbage collection fees. The fees that were introduced under the Garbage Management Ordinance will see residents pay 3,000 Shillings a month to Globe Cleaning Services, which is currently handling waste collection in the municipality. Mityana Municipality Mayor, Faustin Mukambwe Lukonge says …
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Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Mityana District is investigating circumstances under which one of their officers died near his home on Saturday morning. Patrick Nuwagaba, the Officer in Charge of Kakindu Police Station in Mityana District was found dead near his car that had been parked about …
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Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unknown assailants have killed two police officers attached to Busunju police station in Mityana district. Corporal Alfred Oketch and Police Constable Moses Kigongo met their death at the hands of the assailants on Tuesday evening. Police in Wamala region say that the deceased met their …
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Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thousands of people occupying land owned by the Uganda Railway Corporation-URC in Mityana district have been given up to March to vacate or be forced out. In April, the URC management issued a 6 months notice requiring all the occupants to vacate the railway land …
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