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KAMPALA-UGANDA/NEWSDAY: It’s the beginning of a new week that is going to end the month of October and land us into the second last month of the year, November. The week has started off with talk of the weekend blast at Komamboga in Kawempe Urban Division. This blast thought to be from a homemade bomb reportdly claimed two lives and left some other people injured.
2. Today’s Monday brought whole new twists to the Komamboga story with World reknown terrorist group Islamic State (IS) weighing in to claim responsibility for the bombing. See Islamic State targeted “Uganda’s spies” as it claims responsibility for Kampala bomb attack
3. Events however have left the Komamboga bomb blast relegated to second place after a bus incident said to be a bomb too also its said left two dead in Mpigi on the Kampala Masaka Highway. Read Breaking news: Bomb explosion kills two on Bushenyi bound bus
3. Earlier in the day, the President’s Press Secretary Linda Nabusayi Wamboka had tweeted informing the public that the President is to speak to the country on Thursday at 8:00 PM. The tweet said the President will be updating the country on the state of COVID-19 in the country but you sure can expect that the bomb blasts will also be an integral part of his speech since the Komamboga incident took place during curfew time and that Bukedde Newspaper had that very day profiled the place that was bombed as oblivious to the curfew rule and COVID-19 S.O.Ps.
4. Other news of the day saw the Katikkiro of Buganda Charles Peter Mayiga address an NSSF organized symposium about how to invest pension funds. The Katikkiro however sounded like he was at the event to defend NSSF’s concern about giving out a percentage of the pension funds prior to the originally agreed criteria for when the savers should be getting their savings.
5. MPs Muhammed Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana find themselves in a ‘’hopeless’’ situation after High Court Judge Lawrence Tweyanze denied them Court bail in the Masaka Court where their Bijjambiya case is filed. Their lawyer Erias Lukwago however says they are going to appeal the ruling. The Judge reasoned that the two being MPs could sabotage ongoing investigations and as for the issue of sickness he ordered that the Prisons Service ensure they get the due medical care they require. See Ssegirinya, Ssewanyana denied bail
6. Retired Supreme Court Judge has petitioned the very courts of law that he once served to curtail the President’s appetite for changing the laws of the land whenever they don’t favor him.
7. As the World awaits the 26th Conference of Parties (COP) summit to sit in Glasgow Scotland next month, Uganda has shown it has no interest in being part of the Climate Change mitigation efforts. The President tweeted today saying Uganda won’t be part of the West’s Climate Change interests and that Uganda’s Energy needs will inform our Climate agenda. The President saying this even when one of the major issues at the summit is the Most Developed Countries fulfilling a pledge of financing the Least Developed Countries with 100$ million dollars annually to be able to sustain our Climate change mitigation efforts.
8. On the International scene, the Military in Sudan have carried out a coup on the joining Government of Civilians and the Military that has been running the country since the overthrow of Omar-el-Bashir. Prime Minister Abdalah Hamdok is said to be under house arrest in an unknown place. Related Military dissolves civilian rule in Sudan, arrests leaders
9. The row over Tukey’s threat to declare Foreign envoys of US, Germany, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden seems to have cooled off after some compromise.
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