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Anita Among elected deputy Speaker of Parliament
Monday May 24 2021
Bukedea Woman MP Anita Among pictured during the first sitting of the 11th Parliament at Kololo Airstrip on May 24, 2021. PHOTO/ PARLIAMENT PRESS TEAM
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Anita Among, 47, is, an accountant, a lawyer and politician, born in Bukedea District.
She worked with the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and later shifted allegiance to the ruling party and voted for the removal of the presidential age limit in December 2017.
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Bukedea Woman MP, Ms Anita Among has been elected Deputy Speaker of the 11th Parliament with overwhelming majority after beating her two male contenders; Kampala Central MP Muhammad Nsereko (Independent) and Mawokota South MP Yusuf Nsibambi (FDC).
Daily Monitor
Friday May 21 2021
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Security agencies during the campaigns arrested, and still hold, hundreds of Opposition supporters, especially those of National Unity Platform (NUP) led by Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, the runner-up in the January 14 vote.
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President Museveni and his government have been urged to release all political detainees, especially the youths, most of whom were abducted by security operatives and imprisoned before, during and after the 2021 general election.
The appeal was made Friday by Bishop Anthony Zziwa, the chairperson of the Uganda Episcopal Conference during the 26th graduation ceremony of Uganda Martyrs University at Nkozi main campus in Mpigi District.
FARMKENYA INITIATIVE
Esther Kagai, an organic farmer and trainer on her Kiserian farm.
Peter Gicharu was a small boy in 1953 when he began farming. He was in a primary school near Mang’u, Kiambu County, and growing food crops in the school garden was part of practical lessons in agriculture.
Back then, Gicharu did not know that what he and the other pupils were practising was organic farming. He, however, remembers that they did not use any chemicals to enhance soil fertility or kill pests, but instead used compost material and mulching to grow food crops.
The former banker who retired in 1987 after 20 years in the financial industry is an organic farmer in Upper Matasia, near Ngong, still using similar methods he learned in school, close to 70 years ago. Making Biblical reference, Gicharu says this was the kind of agriculture that “God directed Adam and Eve to practise because He knew the benefits.”
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