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Uganda MPs ordered to return iPads or pay for them Wednesday April 07 2021 Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Member of Parliament Maj Gen Pecos Kutesa plays solitaire during plenary at Parliament in 2017. FILE PHOTO | NMG Summary MPs have the option of paying a fee to keep the iPads. Advertisement The Ugandan parliament has ordered legislators to return iPads that were issued to them five years ago by April 30. The iPads, which were handed to them in 2016 at the beginning of their ter...

Daily Monitor Wednesday April 07 2021 Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Member of Parliament Maj Gen Pecos Kutesa plays Solitaire during plenary at Parliament in 2017. PHOTO/ALEX ESAGALA Summary Advertisement Parliament has given MPs up to April 30 to return the iPads that were issued to them in 2016 to facilitate their work. A March 31 letter from the Clerk to Parliament, Ms Jane Kibirige, addressed to all MPs, a copy of  which this newspaper has seen, states that the iPads are the prop...

Lawyer lists reasons why Ongwen should walk out of ICC a free man  Sunday April 04 2021 Summary Although the 1,077-paged International Criminal Court judgment is now being seen by victims as pivotal in the region’s healing process from the physical and psychological wounds inflicted by the war, convicted former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Dominic Ongwen’s lawyers claim the ruling is ‘utterly embarrassing’ and worth an appeal.  Advertisement In a February 4 ruling at The ...

Relatives of Ugandans killed in South Sudan demand compensation Sunday April 04 2021 Summary They were ambushed, killed and their cars burnt by unknown gunmen at Ganji on Yei-Juba highway in South Sudan before reaching South Sudan’s Capital. Advertisement Little did they know that this would be the last time they would see their families. They were ambushed, killed and their cars burnt by unknown gunmen at Ganji on Yei-Juba highway in South Sudan before reaching South Sudan’s Capital. Some...

Daily Monitor Sunday March 14 2021 Rest in eternal peace. Lapwony Michael Ocan was a teacher of Physics and Mathematics whose values included discipline and integrity. Photo | Courtesy. Summary In memoriam. Dad never stopped reading the Bible, newspapers and he loved keeping tabs with current affairs. Jimmy Odoki Acellam, the eldest son of Lapwony Michael  and Betty Aol Ocan pays tribute to his father, four years later. Advertisement Four years ago, on February 22, a bright light in our famil...

Dad never stopped reading the Bible, newspapers and he loved keeping tabs with current affairs

Daily Monitor Thursday March 04 2021 ASP Jimmy Patrick Okema (pictured), the police spokesperson for Aswa river region said Mr Otim who was critically injured was disarmed and later rushed to Doctor Ambrozoli Memorial Hospital in Kalongo for treatment. Advertisement Mr Otim Ayala shot himself on Wednesday afternoon near Kalongo town council offices along Kalongo-wol. Mr Otim who was holding an Ak-47, No. 56-15534962, reportedly fired two bullets in the air and later turned the gun at himself t...

The suspect identified as Robinson Ojok has been alleged to have beaten and injured his wife, Beatrice Amito, on Saturday evening. He had returned home from a nearby town centre when his now-deceased wife disclosed to him that she had taken the said family planning pills. The discovery got Ojok so infuriated that he pounced on the mother of seven and beat her to a pulp. Unfortunately, sied on the way to Lacor Health III in Pabbo Town Council where she was being t...

Man kills wife for taking family planning pills without his consent- police Monday March 01 2021 Advertisement BY IVAN TOLIT Police in Amuru District in northern Uganda have arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly killing his wife after she reportedly took family planning pills without his consent. Robinson Ojok is said to have beaten and injured his wife, Beatrice Amito, on Saturday evening after returning home from a nearby town centre to the news that she had taken family planning pills t...

Why Acholi’s long-serving lawmakers were defeated Sunday February 28 2021 NRM candidate Yoweri Museveni (R) arrives for a campaign meeting at Watoto Church in Gulu City on November 16, 2020. PHOTOS/ FILE Summary Aswa County Member of Parliament (MP) Ronald Reagan Okumu, who has been in Parliament since 1996, was one of the 12 lawmakers in Acholi sub-region who lost in the January polls. Others include Aruu County MP Samuel Odonga Otto, Agago North MP Moris Ogenga-Latigo and Kitgum Municipalit...