Author: Moses Muruli

Parents of a baby who was injured by a chimpanzee in Maramu village, Budongo Sub-County, Masindi district on Wednesday is crying for financial assistance to help them in treating the baby. The four-month-old boy was grabbed from its mother’s back by the chimpanzee in the forest where she had gone to fetch water and sustained injuries in the private parts as the mother struggled to rescue it from the irate ape. Agnes Azaru, the boy’s mother who is attending to the boy at Masindi Kitara hospital, said they do not have money for the medical bills and the associated costs…

Eight Premio cars have been stolen in the last two weeks of December in a wave of vehicle theft that has hit Bunyoro sub-region. The Albertine region police spokesperson, Julius Allan Hakiza, said the cases have been reported in Hoima where three cars have been stolen, Masindi and Kikuube districts that have lost two cars each and Kakumiro where one has been stolen. One of the vehicles stolen from Masindi included the one belonging to the Town Clerk of Kyatiri Town council, Ibrahim Nasur. The car was stolen on Christmas Eve from Brians hotel in Masindi town where he had parked…

Members of Parish Development Program (PDM) Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) in Kiryandongo district have received money as the government rolls out the implementation of the programme in the country. This was during the launch of the parish revolving fund loan cash give out in the district at Bweyale town council on Wednesday. The event was presided over by the State Minister for Bunyoro Affairs, Jenipher Kacha Namuyangu. During the event Kaduku parish in Masindi Port Sub-County and Bweyale Central PDM SACCOs in Bweyale town council received sh25m each. Selected members of the two aforementioned SACCOs received sh1m each in cash…

Masindi district council has passed a resolution backing the government proposal to gazette Budongo central forest into a National Park. This was during an extra-ordinary council held on December 8, 2022. The motion was tabled by the district secretary for production natural resources and marketing, Geofrey Kiiza Bigabwa and seconded by the councilor representing Nyantonzi sub county Christopher Acidri. In a council chaired by speaker Moses Kiirya, Bigabwa cited economic viability and conservation as some of the benefits of gazetting the forest to a National Park. He said Masindi stands to benefit more from the revenue sharing project in case the forest…

Supporters of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party in Masindi district have endorsed President Yoweri Kaguta to stand for president in 2026. This was during the belated World AIDS day celebrations at Booma grounds in Masindi municipality on December 6 which was presided over by Internal Affairs Minister, Major General Kahinda Otafiire. Kabakumba Labbwoni Masiko, the Masindi district NRM party chairperson flanked by the Sub-County chairpersons and other party leaders in the district, unanimously supported the motion before signing on the gigantic banner bearing Museveni’s picture as a gesture of endorsing his candidature. ”Our President and the party chairperson is…