The Tororo district returning officer Fred Tibakuno today summoned the Pajwenda town council LCIII contestant Moses Odel over allegations of voter’s bribery a head of town council polls. The summon comes days after John Otonya, one of the candidates in the LC 3 race wrote a letter to the district returning officer asking him to…
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Residents of Malaba “A” North in Malaba town council are living in fear after the body of a boda boda rider was found dumped in the area and his motorcycle taken. The boda boda rider only identified as Kassim is believed to have been hacked today morning by unknown people. According to Ajilong Esther a…
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Bishop Girado Olukol yesterday donated over 70 blankets to the elderly persons living in Kuruk zone, Busukuya Sub County in Manafwa district following a request by some elders in the area. During the delivery of the blanket Girado said that gone are the days when the gospel was preached by only words but these are…
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Tororo municipal council yesterday passed the 2018-2019 financial year budgets totaling to 14.6 billion shillings. The education department took the lions share with an allocation of 4.2 billion, administration got 2b while health was given 913 million. During a council sitting chaired by the speaker Gilbert Otim, several recommendations were presented by different committees to…
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One person has been confirmed dead and two others are nursing serious injuries at Tororo main hospital after a car belonging to the district councilor representing Mulanda Sub county Jacob Opio knocked them down. The accident that occurred along Tororo-Mbale road at around 3:40pm was after the vehicle Reg. No. UAS 631T knocked the motorcycle…
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The Irarak Clan leaders in Nambale zone Butaleja sub-county in Butaleja district have today stripped two brothers naked after they refused to attend the burial ceremony of their father. The area clan chief Augustine Omollo has identified the culprits as Omit Paskal and Odunda Osama who were in a bar as the burial service of…
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Residents of Kachinga East Zone in Merikit sub-county Tororo district are leaving in fear and panic after a family was attacked by a snake with two legs last night. According to Josephine Akoth a family member, the prime suspect in the snake attack is unidentified man believed to be a witch doctor who earlier came…
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The second deputy prime minster Al Haji Kirunda Kivejinja has asked the people of East Africa to preserve their culture as the only tool towards unity. Kivejinja made this statement while addressing Ugandan and Kenyan traders who had converged at Tourist hotel Bugoma in Kanduyi constituency, Bugoma County for a Kenya-Uganda tourism trade expo which…
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Residents of malaba town council have been consuming contaminated water which caused a cholera outbreak that was recently confirmed. Tororo county south Member of Parliament Fredrick Angura made this revelation today at malaba market ground while launching the keep malaba clean campaign. Angura said according to analytical report done at Mbale water laboratory, it was…
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40 bicycles have today been donated to 40 Gender Change Agents by the Tororo District Farmers Association (TODIFA) at DATIC courtesy of abi Trust organization. The donation is geared towards bridging the gender gap in production and marketing of farm produce in rural areas within Tororo District. Speaking to our reporter, Chairperson TODIFA Vangi Ekirapa…
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