12:00 PM: Museveni’s brother named in Luzira wetland grabbing

President Museveni’s brother, Mr Shadrack Nzeire, has been accused before the Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters of brokering illegal acquisition of land titles in wetlands and on shores of Lake Victoria in Luzira, Nakawa Division.

Mr Edward Kalema, the former Nakawa Division area lands committee chairman, on Monday revealed that Mr Nzeire presented application for lease of Plot 3 at Luzira, near Lake Victoria with a view of establishing a landing site https://bit.ly/2KoMSnu

11:25AM: Policeman hacks resident over a woman

Police in Kyotera District are investigating one of their own over allegations of hacking Robert Nakaana, 32, a resident of Kajaga Village in Kakuuto Sub County, Kyotera District.

The suspect, Ssebyaala Matuusa, 58, is attached to Kibanda police post in Rakai District https://bit.ly/2KczfZj

11:10AM: Clerics plot mandatory HIV testing

The Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU) yesterday launched a mass campaign to check whether sexual partners to HIV-positive people know their status and or are on treatment.

Addressing journalists at their offices in Mengo, the Council’s secretary, Msgr Charles Kasibante, said in a statement read on behalf of his chairman and Uganda Mufti Shaban Mubajje that community and faith leaders are required to take HIV test to inspire their followers https://bit.ly/2N4kvt1

11:00AM: Envoys, Kadaga discuss Kasese raid

Sixteen ambassadors accredited to Kampala yesterday met and discussed with the Speaker of Parliament, Ms Rebecca Kadaga, a raft of issues key among which were the delayed ruling on the Constitution Amendment Bill, Parliament’s investigation into the attack on the Rwenzururu palace and the format of the LC elections.

Asked by French ambassador Stephanie Rivoal over the status of investigations by Parliament’s Defence Committee into the raid by security forces on the November 2016 Rwenzururu attack that left more than 50 people dead, the Speaker promised to have the report out.
“By October, we shall know the outcome of this. It is on schedule, I am just waiting for the Bills to get out of the way and then the reports,” Ms Kadaga said https://bit.ly/2lBHfnK