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Abavubuka mwenyigire mu bulimi - Kabaka awadde amagezi:

 

8th December, 2014

 

By Dickson Kulumba ne Paddy Bukenya

 

Kabaka ng’awuubira ku bantu be ku mbuga y’eggombolola y’e Buwama mu ssaza ly’e Mawokota e Mpigi ku Lwomukaaga ku mikolo gy’Abavubuka mu Buganda.

 

KABAKA Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II alagidde abavubuka okwongera okwegatta 

beenyigire mu bulimi nga balima ebirime eby’ettunzi okusobola okwekulaakulanya.

Omutanda ng’ali ku mikolo gy’abavubuka mu Buganda ku mbuga y’eggombolola y’e Buwama mu ssaza lya Mawokota mu disitulikiti y’e Mpigi ku Lwomukaaga, yawadde abavubuka amagezi okukozesa ebifo ku masaza ne ku magombolola okukolerako emirimu egy’enjawulo egy’enkulaakulana

n’asiima abatandiseewo emirimu ne bayambako n’abalala okwebeezaawo.

 

 

Ente Omubaka Kenneth Kiyingi Bbosa (Mawokota South) gye yatonedde 

Ssaabasajja ku Lwomukaaga. 

 

Kabaka alagidde abavubuka okwekebeza Kabaka yakubirizza abavubuka okwekuuma:

 

“Omwaka guno tujjukiziddwa ensonga y’ebyobulamu. Abavubuka tusaanye okwekuuma nga tuli balamu, okwekebeza buli mwaka kubanga si kirungi okugenda mu ddwaaliro nga tumaze okugonda ate omuvubuka alina okulya obulungi.”

 

Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga yakunze abavubuka okukozesa emikisa Kabaka gy’abatee

reddewo; mu by’obulimi beekwate BUCADEF n’okuyingira Ssuubiryo Zambogo SACCO.

 

Omulamwa gwabadde; Omuvubuka omulamu ate nga mukozi ye nnamuziga w’enku

laakulana mu Buganda, era wano Minisita w’abavubuka e Mmengo, Henry Ssekabembe, we yategeerezza nga bammemba ba Ssuubiryo Zambogo SACCO bwe batuuse ku 1,500 nga kati balinawo n’obukadde 285.

 

Abamu ku Baamasaza ku mukolo gw’Abavubuka mu Buganda e Mawokota ku Lwomukaaga.

 

Omukolo gwetabyeko; ssentebe w’abavubuka mu Buganda, Richard Kabanda, Kayima David Ssekyeru, Katikkiro eyawummula Dan Mulika, sipiika wa Buganda Nelson Kawalya n’omumyuka we Ahmed Lwasa, Minisita Amelia Kyambadde, Omubaka Kenneth Kiyingi Bbosa (Mawokota South) ssaako baminisita b’e Mmengo, abakulu b’ebika n’Abaamasaza.

Abayimbi; Mathias Walukagga ne Fred Ssebbale be baasanyusiza abantu ba Kabaka.

The first bank in The Ganda Kingdom:

By Henry Lubega
 

Posted  Sunday,1 st March,  2015 

  

Before 1906, there was no banking institution in Uganda until November of the same year when the national Bank of India opened its first branch in Entebbe, and four years later it opened the first bank in Kampala, although it was later taken up to become Grindlys Bank.

The National Bank of India was followed by Standard Bank of South Africa Limited when on September 19, 1912, it opened its first branch in Kampala. And a few years later it opened another branch in Jinja.

Barclays

Barclays followed in 1927 when it opened two branches in Kampala and Jinja. In 1954 three more banks; Bank of Baroda, Bank of India and The Nedelandsche Handel-Maatschappij M.V (Netherlands Trading Society) opened in Uganda.

According to Saben’s commercial directory and handbook of Uganda, as early as 1949 the banking system had been established in Uganda but did not control much of the financial liquidity that was in circulation across the board in the country.

“Much of the money was controlled in the bazaars and other channels which were predominantly controlled by people of the Asian origin. These people played a key role in the buying of cotton.

However, areas where banks were non-existent, merchants in those areas played the part of the banks. This was through taking drafts in exchange for cash or physical items in exchange for hard cash,” Saben wrote.

By 1950, it was realised that to bring more Africans into the business there was need to provide them with credit. Unfortunately, the commercial banks at the time would not extend credit to Africans because of the nature of their securities.

Under Ordinance number 20 of 1950 the Uganda Credit and Saving Bank was created purposely to extend credit facilities to Africans with the aim of furthering agriculture, commercial building and co-operative society purposes.

On October 2, 1950, the bank was opened and by 1961 it had spread to places like Arua, Fort Portal, Jinja, Soroti, Gulu, Masaka and Mbale, taking only African deposits.

Building Society

Two years later, the first Building Society in Uganda was opened as a subsidiary of a Kenyan owned firm Savings and Loans Society Limited. 

More financial institutions continued to open up in Uganda with Lombard Bank from Kenya, in partnership with Uganda Development Corporation, opening the Lombank Uganda Limited in 1958. It was this bank which first introduced the hire purchase system of shopping in Uganda.

It was not until 1966 that through an act of Parliament that Bank of Uganda was created. Prior to this, issues to do with money were handled by the East African currency board which had its head offices in Kenya.

Uganda Senior Police officers are facing eviction from Buganda State Police Barracks:

 

By Simon Ssekidde

 

Added 31st May 2016

 

Currently Mpigi Central Police station is faced with the challenge of housing

 

 

Officers at Mpigi Police Station gear up for deployment recently. (Senior officers have been told to leave the barracks).

 

Senior Police officers at Mpigi Central Police Station have been asked to vacate houses in the police barracks and rent rooms outside the barracks.

In the letter dated 23rd May 2016, authored by the District Police Commander, Ahmad Kimera Sseguya, he directed all officers from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and above to immediately vacate the houses where they are currently staying.

According to Kimera, all officers from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police and above are not allowed to sleep in the police barracks because they receive housing allowance in their salary every month.

“We have junior officers who are renting outside the barracks yet they are supposed to sleep inside the Police barracks, these senior officers are supposed to sleep outside the barracks and not inside because their housing allowances are consolidated in the salary” Kimera said.

Currently there are nine Senior Police officers sleeping in houses inside the barracks at Mpigi Central Police station who are facing eviction according to Kimera.

Kimera added that Cadet Officers are however excused because they are not yet confirmed ASPs and therefore they do not receive housing allowances.

Currently, the station is faced with the challenge of housing.

One of the officers who is facing eviction but preferred enormity, said the directive came at a time when they have no money to rent rooms outside the barracks and that they are expensive which they cannot afford now.

“We cannot afford to rent rooms outside the barracks now because they are expensive, we are still looking for money to take our children to school and they are now asking us to leave the barracks” he said.

'Paasita' eyeeyita Yesu bamuggalidde: Agaana abagoberezi be emmere enfumbe, okugenda mu ddwaaliro, n'okusoma:

By Musasi wa Bukedde

 

Added 1st July 2016

 

POLIISI mu disitulikiti y’e Nakaseke ekutte ab’enzikiriza egaana abantu okulya emmere enfumbe, okugenda mu malwaliro n’okutwala abaana ku ssomero abaabadde bakubye olukuhhaana okusaasaanya enjiri yaabwe

 

Emu ku makanisa amanji agagoberera ISA MASIYA mu nsi Buganda.

 

POLIISI mu disitulikiti y’e Nakaseke ekutte ab’enzikiriza egaana abantu okulya emmere enfumbe, okugenda mu malwaliro n’okutwala abaana ku ssomero abaabadde bakubye olukuhhaana okusaasaanya enjiri yaabwe.

Baakwatiddwa ku kyalo Tongo mu ggombolola y’e Kapeeka mu disitulikiti y’e Nakaseke.

Omwogezi wa poliisi mu kitundu kya Savana, Lameka Kigozi yategeezezza nti abaakwatiddwa baggaliddwa ku poliisi e Kiwoko ne mukama waabwe Emmanuel Semakula 35, ng’ono yeeyita ISA MASIYA era agamba nti agaba n’emikisa.

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Ensi Buganda ejjudde nyo eddini. Ono naye agenda kwefunira linya LYA SADAAKA (ekiweebwayo) MU DDINI ENO EYA TONDA nga Baganda banaffe wano e Namugongo bwebajjukirwa okukamala.

The notorious children abduction in Uganda that is going on unabated because of the bad economic conditions prevailing in the country:

 

The most vulnerable like children and women are suffering greatly while the youth are constantly kidnapped and imprisoned or killed:

 

 

16 May, 2021

By World Media

KAMPALA - The Uganda Police on Saturday arrested a man who featured on a BBC video as head of a network in Uganda that kidnapped children to provide them for use in witchcraft and other forms of exploitation.
Asan Kasingye, the Assistant Inspector General of Police and also the National Police Commissar confirmed the arrest of the suspect Yunus at Elegu border point. 
It was not clear whether he was fleeing the country at the time of the arrest.
“He’s just been arrested by Police at Elegu border. More info coming…,” Kasingye tweeted on Saturday evening.

 

This is one of the many constant abductions going on in Uganda these days by unknown armed groups of men.


Kasingye insisted that the report was made by BBC in 2011 and the video was circulated then. “I shared it with CID to ascertain the status of the case,” he noted.
The short video featured the suspect who was described as one of Uganda’s prolific child abductors. The suspect who is identified as Yunus can be heard bragging to BBC reporter that he had enough abducted children.
“I have enough even 100 is no problem for me. I have so many communications (sic). I have a network across the whole of Uganda,” Yunus is heard telling the BBC reporter.
He would later meet the BBC crew at an isolated hotel where he was secretly filmed narrating how he had sold children for use in witchcraft in Uganda and abroad for over 20 years. In the video, he also boasted about how it was done, insisting that, “It all depends on how you want it done. I can take you to a family home. I would have no problem getting a child officially. There is a way of doing it secretly, abduct a child.”
In the second meeting, the BBC crew asks, Yunus if the police would cause them problems, to which he says, “It depends. I have to find a house where we can take the children to a remote area where the police cannot find.”

 

The self confessed abductor of children that has been seen on the BBC programme of Uganda

 

He then demanded a fee of £10,000 per child prompting the BBC Crew to withdraw. Cases of child abduction and scams are not new in Uganda.
In August last year, two Ugandan judges and two lawyers were named and sanctioned by the US State Department for their role in bribery and corruption related to an adoption scam.
In his formal announcement, former secretary of state Michael Pompeo explained that financial sanctions and visa restrictions had been imposed on the four Ugandans ‘for their involvement in activities that victimised young children in a corrupt adoption scheme.’
He named the four as Judges Moses Mukiibi and Wilson Musalu Musene, along with Ugandan lawyer Dorah Mirembe and her associate Patrick Ecobu. 

One of the Ugandan kids that was abducted but later recovered.


The two judges were particularly named for further targeting “due to their involvement in significant corruption.”
Despite a detailed report on the role of the four in the adoption scam, the Uganda police are yet to make any arrest.

 

 

 

 

Prince Wasajja of the Buganda Kingdom hired the capsized boat from the beach employment:

29 November, 2018

Written by URN

The boat that capsized in L.Victoria last week

The boat sailing well before it capsized in L.Victoria last week, 24 November, 2018.

 

Fresh information has emerged indicating that Buganda kingdom prince David Kintu Wasajja hired for his invite-only guests the ill-fated boat that capsized into L.Victoria with approximately over than 100 people on board. 
 
33 bodies have been retrieved from the lake while 27 people were rescued alive. According to a source, Wasajja who also survived the accident, hired the boat to transport the revellers to his party at K Palm beach in Mukono. Indeed, yesterday while at Mutima beach where the retrieval of the wreckage of the boat is taking place, State House based Maj Gen Proscovia Nalweyiso was overheard saying that the marine officers who were bribed allegedly by prince Wasajja to let the boat go ahead with its trip even when it was clear for all that it was not safe for use, will be hunted down and brought to account. 
One of the survivors of the boat accident, singer Iryn Namubiru in her social media posts said there was no payment on part of the revellers as everything was on the house - food and drinks. For every alcohol ordered, Namubiru said, it was provided in full bottle per reveller, no matter the alcoholic content. In some of the videos shared online, some revellers can barely stand due to the intoxication. 
 
According to the source, the ill fated boat which had been grounded at the Mukono based K Palm Beach for months, was pulled from the hanger for repairs and hurriedly painted to transport prince Wasajja's guests for the party that was scheduled for Saturday night last week. 
 
The boat was reportedly pushed into the water by tractor, which is believed to have damaged its lower surface. The new information contradicts earlier reports that indicated that the more than 100 revellers on the boat were heading for the launch of K Palm beach on the invites of its proprietor, the late Michael Bisase alias Templar who drowned alongside his wife Sheila Bisase. 
 
An employee at K Palm Beach said on condition of anonymity that the party was scheduled to take place a week ago but it was postponed to last weekend because the beach wasn't prepared for the guests. 
 
He said they had made preparations for the prince and his entourage because some of them had planned to camp at the beach and leave the next day. The source further said that the prince has been a regular guest at the beach. 
 
Jackson Mutyaba, a friend to the captain of the boat and coxswain on L.Victoria, says the skipper informed them about the damage on the boat and that water was entering it.
 
"He said the tractor was the one that had spoilt the boat. He actually noticed it earlier before reaching Ggaba and called a welder to try and repair the damage," Mutyaba said.
 
Our reporter visited the area where the boat was parked and found visible tracks of tractor tyres and empty tins of the paint that was used on the boat dumped there. URN was unable to independently verify the claims since Wasajja couldn't be reached for a comment. 

The boat retrieved during the whole week and being pulled to the shore of Lake Nalubaale

Omuntu waffe akyatubuzeeko nga tulowooza nti naye yali ku lyato lino:

 

1st December, 2018

 

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ABAABULWAKO omukozi waabwe nga kigambibwa nti yali n’abaafiira ku lyato mu nnyanja Nalubaale beeraliikirivu olw’omuntu waabwe obutalabika n’okutuusa kati.

 

Fauzia Hoirme omutuuze w’e Kiteezi mu Wakiso eyali mukama wa Munyaha yategeezezza nti teyasooka kutegeererawo nti Munyaha y’omu ku baalinnya eryato wabula essimu eyamukubiddwa okuva ku bbiici ye yamutegeezezza nti naye yali mu nnyanja. “Essimu yankubiddwa ng’entegeeza nti nnannyini ssimu y’omu ku baali mu lyato era ne bahhamba nti tebamanyi gy’ali kye nasoose okulowooza nti balabika bafere ne nsalawo okwebuuza ku balala abamanyi ku nsonga zino.” Hoirme bwe yategeezezza.

Ono yayongeddeko nti yakubidde omuserikale Zuula Gannyana n’amubuuza ensonga zino era ono n’amutegeeza nti bituufu wabula nga tebannazuula oba gy’ali mulamu.

 

Yagambye nti Munyaha yamufuna mu 2013 okuva mu Disitulikiti y’e Butalejja nga kitaawe omuto, Henru Banuuli ye yamuleeta okukola ku faamu ya Hoirme e Migadde era ng’ono yasemba okulabikako nga November 15.

Hoirme yayongeddeko nti okuva lwe yavaawo essimu ze zibadde teziriiko era ng’ono yalowooza nti oba yakyusa ennamba era bwe yalabye ng’essimu emukubiddwa n’asanyuka nnyo n’alowooza nti oba omulenzi ono amukubidde amusaba okumusisinkana. “Nnasanyuse nga ndabye essimu ye naye kyankanze ate okuwulira nga nange bamumbuuza ekyayongedde okunkanga era kye tugenda okuzzaako kati kwe kufulumya olupapula lw’ennamba ezibadde zimukubirwa tulabe abaamuyita okugenda ku lyato tutandikire awo okumunoonya,” Hoirme bwe yayongeddeko.

 

Yategeezezza nti omwana ono abadde atera okuwugira mu kidiba ku faamu e Migadde mu Disitulikiti y’e Wakiso era kiteeberezebwa nti alabika bwe yagwa mu nnyanja yasobola okuwuga n’asimattuka naye okuva olwo kati alabika yeekwese olw’okututya. Nsaba yonna gyali akomewo kuba ffe tetumulinaako buzibu kyokka ate erudda tutya nti ayinza okuba nga yafa.

 

 

 

 

 

Seychelles president's brother, Roy Faure born and settled in Tooro Kingdom has been buried today at Kasese:

June 4, 2019

Written by URN

Barry Faure and his sister Maryline Faure lay a wreath on Roy Faure's casket

Barry Faure and his sister Maryline Faure lay a wreath on Roy Faure's casket

 

Residents of Kasese on Monday thronged the Ibanda I cell in Kasese to eulogise Roy Robert Faure.

Roy Faure, who is a brother to Danny Faure the current president of the Republic of Seychelles, succumbed to multiple organ failure at St Francis hospital in Nsambya on Friday. The deceased had grappled with hypertension and diabetes for close to fifteen years.

Roy Faure was born on March 5, 1965, to Jean Faure, a native of the Seychelles who was then working at Mubuku power station, a power generating site of Kilembe mines and Pauline Mbambu, a native of Kisamba in Bugoye sub-county of Kasese district.

A multitude of mourners gathered at his home in Ibanda to not only lay him to rest, but also eulogise him. Among them was his half-brother Barry Faure the secretary of state for Foreign Affairs in the Republic of the Seychelles.

 

Roy's other brother, Danny who is also the President of the Seychelles, didn't come to the funeral because of other commitments according to Barry. Barry revealed that he had been sent to represent the entire Faure family living in the Seychelles since all of them could not manage to be in Uganda owing to their father's ill health.

According to Barry, Jean Faure their father, who is now 83 years old, was recently hospitalised and is yet to be cleared by the doctor's for travel since he's still undergoing convalescence. Barry urged the family and all residents of Kasese to confide in Christ and live in the hope that his deceased brother will live to celebrate eternal life in heaven. 

He told Maryline Faure and Ryan Mirage Faure - both of them younger siblings to deceased Roy, who are based in Uganda, that they now have a bigger challenge the demise of Roy has created.

James Mbahimba, the Ugandan deputy ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo challenged the Barry to personally take charge of his father's family since the pillar of that family was no more.

Kasese LCV chairperson Geoffrey Sibendire Bigogo says the demise of Roy is a big blow to the entire community of Kasese. Bigogo says the contribution of deceased to the development of Ibanda-Kyanya town council is so immense that it is hard to find people who can transform a community like he did.

Faure is particularly remembered for his awakening of Ibanda-Kyanya town council community to make good use of electricity within the area. He is also remembered for introducing the milling technology to not only the community of Ibanda Kyanya town council, but also to so many communities in the entire district of Kasese district.

His coffee, maize and cassava milling machines employed and continue to employ so many people within Kasese district. The Kasese community also recognises his effort in the fight against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels that wreaked havoc in the district in late 1990s.

Although he did not have any military background, Roy closely worked with the UPDF to flush out the rebel group. He repaired some of the force's armoured vehicles whenever they broke down.

He would also on a number of occasions, canvass the community with the UPDF to build confidence and also encourage the people to work with the army in fighting the rebel outfit. Bigogo says this is an effort that cannot be taken lightly in pacifying Kasese district.

George Williams Koffi, one of the cousins of the deceased says that if it were not for the efforts of Roy to convince the masses to support the UPDF in fighting the ADF, the war could have taken longer than it did. Koffi also remembers Roy as one who committed a lot of his resources to support them through school.

The deceased who was survived with a wife and nine children was buried at his home in Ibanda I cell of Ibanda-Kyanya town council. The burial was also attended by Seychelles consular to Uganda Elly Karuhanga and his deputy Aggrey Ashaba, Kasese municipality mayor Godfrey Baluku Kabyanga among other dignitaries.

 

 

 

 

 

This is the School teacher of Kyebambe Girls High School, Fort Portal, Tooro, Uganda:

M/s Maudyn born by parents of different nationalities  during 1940/45

 

As a School teacher in that School, she used to have great friends in Kabaale and would make weekend holiday journeys to go and visit them during those great years of 1960/62:

Afterwards she worked in Kampala and was resident in the hostel of the YWCA, for some time. One day in 1990, a friend met her around Nakasero Market, Kampala but was unable to record contact information. Since then all contact with this beloved friend has been lost. It must not be for ever. There is still a chance to get together again.

 

Please, if you read this information and you are the person in that picture, make contact with Hannat Nakyagaba, Kampala, Uganda. Telephone: 0704147004. Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The African relationship that refuses to die out on the African continent:

 

24 August, 2018

The late Mr Charles Sentongo and a friend.

Mr Kevin Kisakye Wadimba 

Kevin Kisakye Wadimba surviving as a three year old nursery student in Uganda

Mr Charles Sentongo during the 1960s working as the District Commissioner of the Kingdom of Toro on behalf of the British Protectorate Government of the country of Uganda.

Grandmum of the late Charles Sentongo living her life in Bulemezi, Semuto, 1959

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