Tag Archives: Nakaseke

Nakaseke, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have used teargas to disperse legislators allied to the National Unity Platform-NUP political party, on their way to donate relief items to expectant mothers at Kikamulo health center in Nakaseke district. A group of legislators comprising Nakaseke Central MP, Allan Mayanja Ssebunnya, Hassan Kirumira …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has directed the Minister of Works and Transport Gen. Katumba Wamala to take interest in the post state of roads in Nakaseke district. This followed a matter of national interest raised by Nakaseke Woman MP, Sarah Najjuma on …

Nakaseke, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries-MAAIF has lifted quarantine restrictions on Nakaseke district exciting local leaders and pastoralists. In 2019, the ministry imposed quarantine restrictions on Ngoma, Kinoni sub-counties and Ngoma town council following the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). The …

Lockdown saw a ban on cattle markets in the area to stem the spread of COVID-19 Nakaseke, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | About 85 percent of the residents of Nakaseke North constituency in Nakaseke district are facing starvation after abandoning crop production in preference to cattle farming. The affected are residents …

Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police officers at Kiwoko police station in Nakaseke district are on the spot for allegedly coercing a resident to sign an agreement surrendering his land measuring half an acre to a land grabber in exchange for bond. Livingstone Kalungi, a resident of Bukomba village in …

Nakaseke, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Nakaseke Resident District Commissioner has banned the airing of death announcements on community radios because of a surge in COVID-19 cases. By Sunday, Nakaseke district had registered 430 COVID-19 cases and nine deaths since the country announced the second wave. At least 182 patients …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kiwoko town council in Nakaseke district has arrested a polling assistant and a voter for alleged ballot stuffing. The suspects have been identified as David Isiko Wasswa and Catherine Nanteza, a voter at Maranatha primary school polling station in Kiwoko town. They were …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Forum For Democratic Change presidential candidate Patrick Oboi Amuriat has asked residents of Nakaseke district to vote President Yoweri out of power for neglecting the area despite of their contribution to the war that brought him to power. Nakaseke districts was the epicentre of the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Nakaseke district have told the Alliance for National Transformation presidential candidate Gen. Gregg Mugisha Muntu that they are tired of voting military leaders. Security forces in Uganda are currently under the spotlight over brutality while enforcing COVID-19 guidelines and dispersing protests. The recent …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has asked residents in Nakaseke and Luweero districts to take lead in voting out President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for failing to live to their expectations. Luweero and Nakaseke districts were the epicenter of the National Resistance …