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According to FUFA management, Micho has signed a three year renewable contract effective 1st August 2021.
“The Head coach has a contractual mandate to name his backroom staff.
Mr. Milutin Sredojevic will address the media on Tuesday 3rd August 2021,†FUFA said in a statement on Tuesday.
In 2017, Micho terminated his contract with the FUFA citing outstanding debt of salary and bonuses of Shs 230million.
“I will remain available to assist any coach that comes after me†he said.
Micho replaces Johnathan McKinstry who was sacked in April this year.
On 4 September 2016, Micho led the Uganda Cranes team to qualifications for the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in 38 years.
The Cranes finished the qualification round very strongly as Group D runners-up, behind west African side Burkina Faso who needed a late win over Botswana, with 13 points safe in the bag, Uganda finished as one of the two best group runners-up to finally progress to the elusive stage.
The Africa Cup of Nations draw placed Egypt, Mali and Ghana in Uganda’s Group D. On 7 January 2016 Uganda attained the best ever position on the FIFA rankings in the 62nd out of the 209 FIFA Member Associations.Micho guided Uganda after 38 year old jinx to qualify for the biggest continental football fiesta â€" the African Cup of Nations, Farouk Miya scored 1â€"0 against the Island nation, Comoros in the 35th minute.
Micho takes credit for developing the goalkeeper Denis Onyango, who has just been named African Player of the Year based in Africa for 2016, having worked with him in his first spell in Uganda. In December 2016, Micho was among the nominees for the prestigious CAF Coach of the Year Award following his exploits in 2016.Uganda was voted as a national team of the year 2016 in CAF awards Micho has so far won 14 league titles in five different big clubs in the African continent.
]]>Revise Covid-19 treatment protocols- MPs to governmenthttps://www.watchdoguganda.com/news/20210727/118100/revise-covid-19-treatment-protocols-mps-to-government.html Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:55:52 +0000https://www.watchdoguganda.com/?p=118100Members of Parliament on the Parliament Covid-19 Taskforce want the government to change the Covid-19 treatment protocols at health centre IVs.This followed revelations by the Kibuku District Health Officer, Godfrey Buyinza that the drugs used in the treatment of Covid-19 are not in the ministry’s line of essential drugs. He added that those drugs cannot be supplied by National Medical stores to the Health Centre IVs.
“National Medical Stores has not been supplying vitamin C and Vitamin D because they are not on the essential drugs list for the treatment of Covid-19 yet they are so useful,†Dr. Buyinza said.
He added that other drugs like azithromycin, zinc and chloroquine are supplied inadequately and rarely.
Timothy Batuwa (FDC Jinja West) said that in order for government to manage the Covid-19 crisis, it ought to make available medicines that are essential in the treatment of the disease.
“Most of the people exhibiting mild symptoms are sent home and it is likely that they don’t have money to purchase the medicines. Government should avail these medicines to save the people,†he said.
Government put up a policy that all mild and asymptomatic patients should be managed under the home based care system.
West Budama South MP, Emmanuel Otaala said that government should strengthen referral systems at health centre IVs.
“We have found that in Kibuku, there is no ambulance to use to refer Covid-19 patients. In cases of severe patients, they are put behind in a pickup and transported to Mbale which sometimes results in loss of life,†Otaala said.
Otaala added that the health centre does not have adequate oxygen to facilitate treatment of the patients.
The health facility has only two oxygen cylinders.
]]>Man who beat up Tamale Mirundi’s son is now hunting for the father to also teach him a lessonhttps://www.watchdoguganda.com/news/20210727/118098/man-who-beat-up-tamale-mirundis-son-is-now-hunting-for-the-father-to-also-teach-him-a-lesson.html Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:56:17 +0000https://www.watchdoguganda.com/?p=118098Kissa kyamukama Yiga has confessed that he is the one who beat up the son of former senior Presidential Press Secretary Joseph Tamale Mirundi.While appearing on STV over the weekend, Kissa Kyamukama revealed that he beat up Tamale Mirundi Junior for abusing President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and the National Resistance Movement (NRM) yet it’s the President who paid for his school fees right from primary up the University level.
“I beat Junior because he was getting lost for supporting People Power and I’m not going to stop on him, I’m going to beat whoever ate Museveni’s money and ran away. Ugandans can now testify that because of my beatings, Junior is now back in NRM. That boy was educated on NRM’s money but he has been abusing Museveni and his people because of People Power.â€
He again noted that he is now hunting for the father also to teach him the same lesson he gave to his son for betraying President Museveni and NRM.
“Mirundi? It’s not over, I’m now hunting for you until you come publicly and apologize to President Museveni. You can’t eat Museveni’s money and again abuse his ministers, family members and general in the army. Don’t ask for any investigations, I’m the one who beat your son and I’m now coming for you one on one. Mirundi’s family must apologize to Museveni if not that they are going to face it rough,†Kissa Kyamukama warned.
On 12th March Mirundi, Mirundi Junior was attacked by unknown individuals who beat him to the pulp and broke his jaws. Hnursed wounds for over weeks.
Fews days after the attack Mirundi went on STV and condemned Kissa kyamukama for beating his son but latter denied having had a hand in the attack. However, over the weekend he confessed that he is the one who ascended Junior before asking Mirundi senior to take his revenge if he thinks he is a man enough.
]]>FARUK KIRUNDA: Ugandans can help the President to decide on lockdownhttps://www.watchdoguganda.com/op-ed/20210727/118096/faruk-kirunda-ugandans-can-help-the-president-to-decide-on-lockdown.html Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:37:00 +0000https://www.watchdoguganda.com/?p=118096This Saturday, President Yoweri Museveni will address the nation on the Covid-19 situation. He last addressed us on June 18 where he announced a snap 42 day lockdown that elapses today. Lockdown being “lockdownâ€, meaning that many things have been put on hold and life is not working out normally, everyone wants it to end. I, too, wish it could end; President Museveni would wish that he could have good news so that his people live life normally.Unfortunately, the decision to end lockdown and restore normalcy is in nobody’s hands with Covid-19 still here. When the 42 day lockdown was announced in June, infections and deaths due to the pandemic had shot up at an unprecedented rate. I have no doubt that we were headed for a real catastrophe if government had not intervened at that stage.
Today, the lockdown is elapsing and we hold our breath for what next. Shall systems be opened, will schools reopen, will places of worship reopen, will public transport resume, and will curfew hours be cut down? After what people have been through, they can’t wait and it I am sure that the President understands everyone’s anxiety.
He wants normalcy restored since he has a responsibility to keep the country operational yet at the same time he wants people alive. We have already witnessed how the situation has improved, and how this validates the wisdom in the President’s interventions which, despite so much, have been very beneficial in terms of containing the second wave. Numbers are coming down, but they are not low enough yet. When I last checked on Tuesday, there were 31 deaths and hundreds of new infections being reported. By the time lockdown came into effect in June, infections were reading in thousands on some days. So, there has been improvement and we can attribute the reduction in the tide to limitation on people to people interactions.
Last year, at the height of the political season when some groups of people were dismissing the threat of Covid-19 and actively urging the public to defy safety guidelines, the President said what we were dealing with was not a matter of convenience but survival. That wisdom still stands, and even more apparent since the disease has visited almost every community and people can no longer deny its nearness. For that matter, if it means dealing with a little more inconvenience to our normal ways of life for the sake of surviving to enjoy life tomorrow, we may have to cooperate and do our individual best. It is about us as individuals as it is about government and country.
The hard part about this disease and other threats to life is that a person can die and the country will go on without them. So, really, the buck stops with citizens to understand that these are extraordinary times calling for extraordinary caution and vigilance. We have been through a lot already and we shouldn’t give up now.
Ugandans have exhibited a lot of disciplined this time, better than last year so much so that security has not been very hard on them as it was last year. They have been observing SOPs, curfew times, avoiding unnecessary travel and socialising. But a few black sheep are openly violating regulations. These include boda boda and private vehicles which are ferrying passengers. With such behavior, I don’t see how we can survive stayed under lockdown. Is it just impatience or defiance at play? This is not a political issue that anyone should take it as something between Museveni and opposition.
It has nothing to do with a specific ethnic or religious group, not even a particular race. All human beings are susceptible to the disease. We are yet to hear of anyone who is immune to it because of their political thinking or tribe.
Defying and violating safety guideline is to sign one’s own death warrant, while risking the lives of others.
Apart from staying the course on S.O.Ps, mass vaccination is going on and government is committing ample resources to ensure that a reasonable number of people are vaccinated since this reduces incidences of acquiring the virus, falling sick, dying from it and spreading it to others. I can also see that the need to vaccinate more people demands that people are free to move to centres of vaccination which movement is now curtailed, but I know government will work out a way to make vaccination available to everyone.
For now, individual actions will shape what comes next as we grapple with this novel pandemic that is still teasing the whole world.
Ugandans have the power; they can help the President make a favourable decision (to lift lockdown)-and that is by proving that they will stringently adhere to safety guidelines and that they can police themselves at all times. If we don’t show that we have learnt a lesson, whether lockdown is lifted now, it will not be long before it is reinstated. Sadly by the time that move is considered, we shall have lost many more people and registered higher infections than before.
The author is a Private Secretary to H.E the President in Charge of Media Management
Contact: kirundaf2@gmail.com
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This is the second set of the national examinations to be released after Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results that were released two weeks back.
According to the Ministry of Education and Sports Spokesperson Patrick Muinda, the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) will brief the Ms Janet about the results on Wednesday ahead of the Friday July 30 release.
“The release of results will be conducted under strict observance of Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) at State House,†Muinda confirmed.
Candidates and other stakeholders will recieve the results using the Short Message Services (SMS) on mobile phones after the official release.
A total of 333,889 candidates registered for 2020 UCE from 3,935 examination centres.
Out of these, 49.8 per cent were male while 50.1 per cent were female.
At total of 148,135 of the candidates are under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) while 185,754 candidates are Non-USE.
]]>Uganda to manufacture tick vaccine by next year-Minister Rwamiramahttps://www.watchdoguganda.com/news/20210727/118088/uganda-to-manufacture-tick-vaccine-by-next-year-minister-rwamirama.html Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:47:11 +0000https://www.watchdoguganda.com/?p=118088The Minister of state for animal industry Lt Col (RTD) Bright Kanyontore Rwamirama has revealed that Uganda will start to produce its own tick vaccines by the mid next year to help the country independently combat tick resistance among cattle farmers.Rwamirama noted that the ministry of agriculture, animal industry and fisheries has already instituted a committee of experts to handle the investigation on both livestock and crop production to come up with recommendations.
He said that the tick resistance has become stubborn partly due to using the same acaricide in one place for a long time, fake acaricides and poor handling that may lead to its importance because of direct sunlight.
He made remarks over the weekend during the harmonization of foot and mouth disease control measures and monitoring COVID-19 relief fund in municipalities held at Municipal offices Ntungamo Municipality.
Minister Rwamirama noted that by June 2022 Uganda shall have completed and approved its own tick vaccine appealing to cattle farmers to adhere to veterinary guidelines.
The minister said that tick eradication will be done in two phases there by total suppression where the government will provide farmers with highly subsidized acaricides such that all domestic animals are sprayed to reduce tick loads to almost zero and then vaccines will be introduced.
Rwamirama also directed security agencies in Ntungamo district to arrest and auction illegal cattle’s crossing Uganda- Rwanda through porous border into the country as the only way to cartel illegal cattle movements in the district.
He advised all cattle sellers in both countries to use the right channel if they are to promote EAC trade among countries.
The minister hailed Hon Mwesigwa Rukutana for lobbying and promoting the ongoing Agriculture Cluster Development Project (ACDP) in the district.
He pledged additional 10,000 dozes of foot and mouth disease to intensify the cattle vaccination since Ntungamo district is large compared to the 2000 dozes it received.
Rwamirama also promised water units for dam construction for water production because the district has been stressed with lack of enough water and 2 tractors.
The RDC Ntungamo George Bakunda stressed the need for intensifying the security at the border to dispel illegal cattle movement in Kabezi and Ruhara villages in Ngoma sub county which exacerbates the spread of foot and mouth disease in the district.
Samuel Mucunguzi Rwakigoba chairperson Ntungamo district commended minister Rwamirama for the visitation which has addressed many challenges.
]]>How Entebbe RDC is using his powers to frustrate police workhttps://www.watchdoguganda.com/news/20210727/118091/how-entebbe-rdc-is-using-his-powers-to-frustrate-police-work.html Tue, 27 Jul 2021 10:11:43 +0000https://www.watchdoguganda.com/?p=118091In 2019, months after the President had reshuffled Resident District Commissioners; the new RDC for Entebbe Noor Njuki summoned a team of Police officers to his office.Njuki, who had just arrived at the Entebbe sub district, was as new as then DPC Baker Kawonawo. SP Kawonawo had spent a month working in the area.
The two, moved with other Police officers including the officer in charge of Criminal Investigations Onesmus Mwesigwa and the Officer in charge of Criminal Intelligence to Kisubi â€" Kitala.
The team, together with Political leaders, led by Ronald Kalema was inspecting the destruction of a swamp connecting Nambigirwa and Ziika Forest behind a warehouse along Entebbe road.
“What was amusing, there were two contesting parties. However, the RDC arrived with one of the parties leaving other officers confused about the credibility of the President’s representative, †One of the officers told this website.
During the discourse, everyone saw a visibly biased RDC protecting the interests of one person over all others.
“This prompted a disagreement between the different parties and the leaders, and the case was never completed.†A local councilor told this website.
The disagreement in such early days introduced a bad relationship between other security forces and the office of the RDC.
RDC started witch hunting officers at the Uganda Police Force and some officers in the Internal Security Office.
Njuki later started attacking officers including then Officer in charge of Criminal Investigations Onesmus Mwesigwa, DPC Baker Kawonawo among other officers.
“I will make sure they give respect to the office of the RDC. I cannot direct one to engage in an operation and they refuse,†the RDC is quoted to have said.
The impasse grew after land wrangle between City Businessman Godfrey Kirumira and locals in Kasanje intensified, leaving several of the officers disregarding the RDC’s command. He is a uni directional thinker, he listens and proposes actions, we listen and investigate, then make recommendations but he doesn’t want to be guided, his word is final whether right or wrong.
“It turned into a tag of war. Njuki even questioned why his senior Rose Kirabira who attempted to mediate between them all,†a journalist privy to the occurrences told this website.
Current impasse
Last week, RDC Njuki called the Director operations of the Uganda Police Force, AIGP Edward Ochom.
The call was raising a red flag on the current officer in charge of Criminal Investigations at the Entebbe Central Police Station Herbert Rugubwa Rugyendo.
Njuki who met AIGP Ochom alleged that Rugubwa had released suspects in the murder of a young juvenile, Kato Were in Nkumba, Katabi town Council.
Facts about the case
On July 3rd, Mr Were Eriya, the deceased’s father reported the disappearance of his child, Were Kato at Kasenyi police station. Kato, male juvenile, aged 06 years remained missing until July 5th when a call demanding a ransom of 4m was received by a neighbor to the deceased’s family.
The caller immediately switched off the phone but the voice was familiar and recognizable. Police started tracing for the suspect identified as Kaye Moses. At around 1600 hours (4.00 pm) on July 6th, Kaye was arrested.
After thorough interrogation, suspect led police to the nearby thicket about 200m from the deceased’s home in Nkumba. A body identified as that of Kato Were, a child who was missing was found in an early decomposition state, both legs and hands tied while lying in spine position, mouth stuffed with a cloth and the entire head wrapped with a white hard polythene paper.
The body didn’t have any external injuries seen save for the blisters on the stomach.
The Entebbe Division Police Commander, Officer in charge of Criminal Investigations â€" CID and a team of detectives immediately visited the crime scene and thoroughly examined the body with the help of the divisional SOCO.
Upon the arrest of Kaye Moses, residents raged up against his parents and close friends suspecting connivance, police whisked them away for safe custody. Residents led by the area councilor led a group of angry people, damaging properties of relatives and friends of Kaye Moses who were detained by police. Upon their release since they were not implicated at all, they proceeded to the nearest police station of Kasenyi with witnesses ready for statements against Muhiire John.
Out of fear, Muhiire alarmed to the RDC that murder suspects were released. Sources close to the RDC intimate that he apparently advised him to organize a demonstration which he would join later.
The area councilor ganged up locals who had participated in the malicious damage to demonstrate so that suspects are re arrested and taken back.
“When the demonstration was in high gear, RDC called director operations-Uganda police. So unfortunate that a leader of the RDC’s caliber can organize a demonstration to blame it on another person, moreover your subordinates. It’s equally unfortunate that despite his limited information and knowledge of what is going on, he still wants to be the chief magistrate, the RSA and the DPC, he disregards technical guidance,†a member of the Division Security Committee told this website.
]]>OFWONO OPONDO: Those saying people arrested for high profile murder incidences are targeted for being muslims are missing a point https://www.watchdoguganda.com/op-ed/20210727/118084/ofwono-opondo-those-saying-people-arrested-for-high-profile-murder-incidences-are-targeted-for-being-muslims-are-missing-a-point.html Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:31:09 +0000https://www.watchdoguganda.com/?p=118084Jamil Alibaki, Nnyanzi Yafeesi Philip, Lwanga Thomas Musisi, Kityo Denis Musoke, Jjunju Abdalla-a Kenyan driver, Kalamire Patanguli- a British citizen, Julius Elius Mashairi a Tanzanian Citizen, Lumu Nicholas are different people in one. Elsewhere, he went by David Amon Musenge. This was the world of Jamil Mukulu, leader of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) who was a fugitive on the run for two decades until his capture in Tanzania and extradition to Uganda in 2015.Now in detention in Luzira prison on multiple charges of murders, robbery, arson and treason, some people don’t even believe that ADF exists. They argue that Jamil Mukulu is innocent until proven guilty in a competent court of law. They insist that those arrested or put out of action by security teams are innocent, but falsely claim that they are ‘targeted’ for being Muslims. Opposition MPs Muwanga Kivumbi, Asuman Basalirwa and their ilk stomp for them, claiming that Muslims are being framed as suspects in every high profile murder incidences.
To suggest that Islam, as a religion, is responsible for terror would be to miss the mark by miles. It’s never religion that’s guilty but individuals who under religious garb twist it to their insidious ends. Islam actually means and preaches peace, although Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen and other predominantly Muslim countries are being attacked by Muslim extremists killing Muslims. UPDF succeeded in Somalia partly because of the support from Muslim communities.
Those arrested in the Gen. Katumba Wamala assassination attempt are not Muslims but criminals and it’s yet to be established if they are even extremists. The state arrested criminal suspects, not Muslims. Since those arrests there is noise from the so-called ‘Muslim lawyers’ doubting the possibility of seemingly ‘innocent’ boda-boda riders or roadside chapatti makers to carry out acts of murder.
In 2008, as AMISOM and the transitional federal government of Somalia were holding a security meeting, two suicide explosions rocked out loud, killing five Ugandans and six Burundians, including then AMISOM Deputy Force Commander Maj. Gen. Juvenal Niyoyungunza. Two vehicles with UN logos fixed with Improvised Explosive Devises (IEDs) rammed through the compound gate.
Reports subsequently indicated that one of the UN cars had been kept for this mission for close to two years, while the other car had been simply painted with the UN logos. They wanted to hurt the heart of the peace keeping-mission. The Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for that attack. Uganda’s Maj. Gen Nathan Mugisha and Col Ba-Hoku Barigye survived narrowly.
In 2014, as CDF, Gen Katumba visited Jamil Mukulu’s camp in Eastern DRC after more than 500 ADF rebels were killed and told the DRC army to annihilate the ADF. Seven years later in terror-style an attempt on Katumba’s life was made.
In a TV clip, Gen Katumba asked young people not to be misled into terror activities under the guise of employment. In other clips captured by a local TV station, Jamil Mukulu can be seen and heard addressing hundreds of his indoctrinated ordinary men, women, and young boys who could be chapatti sellers or boda-boda riders-as part of his tactical training in the jungle in Luganda, a local dialect.
Thankfully we now know that ADF attacked and killed students in Kichwamba, burning eighty-seven of them alive, maimed some and abducted others in 1996. And while some people in Uganda including leaders still doubted the existence of such a terror group, in 2010, Alshabaab, closely linked to ADF killed seventy people in the twin bombings at Ethiopian village and Kyadondo rugby club in Kampala. The culprits were eventually got and are serving jail sentences in Luzira prison.
On April, 2, 2015 Alshabaab killed 148 students in Garrisa University, Kenya, injured over eighty, took 700 hostages, freed those who identified themselves as Muslims, and celebrated victory. On September 21, 2013 Alshababa claimed responsibility for the attack on Westgate shopping Mall, Nairobi as retribution for Kenya’s military deployment in Somalia. Seventy-one people including four attackers died. ADF, Alshabaab, Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda are all linked.
In 1998, Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks on US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam whose commander was one Fazul Abdullah Mohammed alias ‘Abu-Abdirahman the Canadian’ alias ‘Daniel Robinson’ travelling under a South African passport. He was eventually killed in Mogadishu when Paul Lokech-then a Brigadier was the Contingent Commander. Fazul was a top leader in Al-Qaida, and Shabaab both of which ADF pays special allegiance. The attempt by these groups to grow terror cells in Uganda is high and must be stopped, and the community has a big role to play.
So, a month after the attack on Gen. Katumba, Lokech arrests these terrorists, some killed, trying to fight back as part of their training because they rather die in martyrdom than be captured and paraded in public. In Pakistan, a couple wrapped IEDs on their bodies to attack a police station killing over ten people. Although we have just come from of an election and some people are still sulking let’s not allow terrorism to become an attraction.
]]>Ebigezo bya S.4 bifulumizibwa lwakutaano luno, Abayizi 333,889 be babilindiriddehttps://www.watchdoguganda.com/news/20210727/118083/ebigezo-bya-s-4-bifulumizibwa-lwakutaano-luno-abayizi-333889-be-babilindiridde.html Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:30:30 +0000https://www.watchdoguganda.com/?p=118083EBIGEZO bye kibiina eky’okuna ebya 2020 mu kiseera kino byonna biwedde okutekebwateekebwa era nga ekirindiriddwa kubifulumya mu butongole.Bino bikakasiddwa omwogezi wa Minisitule ye byenjigiriza ne Mizannyo Patrick Muyinda.
Muyinda agamba nti entekateeka zonna zimaze okujibwako engalo era nga ku lunaku lw’okusatu abakulu mu kitongole kye Bigezo UNEB bagenda kwegeyamu ne Minisita we by’enjigiriza Janet Kataha Museveni ku mbeera yonna, olwo ku lunaku lw’okutaano nga 30 bifulumizibwe mu butongole eri e Ggwanga lyonna, abazadde saako n’abayizi.
Ab’ekitongole kye bigezo saako n’abakungu abalala abanaaba bayitiddwa okwetaba ku mukolo ogwo maka g’omukulembeze we Ggwanga Entebbe, bonna basabiddwa okugoberera amateeka g’abebyobulamu agakwata ku kirwadde kya Covid 19.
Abayizi n’abazadde ebigezo bagenda kubifunira ku masimu gaabwe nga bayita mu bubaka.
Okusinziira ku UNEB omuwendo gw’abayizi 333,889 be bewandiisa okutuula ebigezo mu mwaka gwa 2020 mu bifo 3,935 okwetoloola e Ggwanga lyonna.
]]>Government not aware of any bankruptcy issues against Russian company hired to install digital trackers in vehicles- Attorney General Kiryowa https://www.watchdoguganda.com/news/20210727/118080/government-not-aware-of-any-bankruptcy-issues-against-russian-company-hired-to-install-digital-trackers-in-vehicles-attorney-general-kiryowa.html Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:37:47 +0000https://www.watchdoguganda.com/?p=118080The Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka says the 10-year contract government of Uganda signed with Russian company Joint Stock Company Global Security to install digital monitoring systems in all motorcycles and vehicles in Uganda was approved by his office.Joint Stock Company Global Security which was awarded the contract on Friday last week is facing bankruptcy litigations in Russia and more than a dozen other debt related limitations.
However in a phone interview with URN, Kiryowa said government isn’t aware of any bankruptcy order issued against the company.
“Yes, the contract was brought to my office, we approved it and we believe there is no risk, Uganda is not exposed to anything at all,†Kiwanuka told the media outlet.
“Contract was approved by my office taking into consideration all the laws of this country and we are certain that we don’t have any order of bankruptcy issued against the company.â€
That Global Security is facing bankruptcy litigation in Russia, according to the data about the company from Honest Business website, which curates information about businesses and companies in Russia.
Joint Stock Company Global Security Company registered as a small business of 10 employees in 2013 and the firm returns for last year were 637,742 russian rubles equivalent to USD8,000.
It was sued by LLC “Rus Prom-Technologiesâ€, another Russian company that wants it declared bankrupt. The case was filed in the Arbitration Court of City of Moscow on September 17th 2020 and accepted on October 20th 2021.
“On September 17, 2020, the Moscow Arbitration Court received an application from Rus-Prom-Technology on the recognition as insolvent (bankrupt) of JSC Global Security,†a ruling by the Arbitration Court of City of Moscow dated 20th October 2020 says. “Having considered the received application and the documents attached to it, the court considers them sufficient for the acceptance of the application for hearing.â€
Though the case was accepted for hearing, the hearing sessions have been postponed several times as Global Security fight to pay the debt its owes Rus-Prom-Technology.
In another case filed in March 2019, Rus-Prom-Technology had sued Global Security for failure to pay 16.6 million rubles (Russia currency) which is about $220,000. Rus-Prom-Technology won the case.
After winning the case, Rus-Prom-Technology proceeded to file case in which it wants Global Security declared bankrupt. For Global Security to fight off bankruptcy, court has ordered it to pay Rus-Prom-Technology.
Global Security has also been sued by Limited Liability Partnership “Orken Alem†for a debt of 8.5 million rubles and Gu Main Department of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for failure to pay 10,000 rubles (about $135) and 455,00 rubles (about $600). All these cases were filed between 2019 and July 2021.
After eyeing a lucrative deal in Uganda, the company registered again on the 10th of this month as a Small Medium Enterprise (SME) in Russia. Meanwhile, the tech company doesn’t even own a digital website.
On Friday, Uganda signed a contract with Joint Stock Global Security Company to provide digital trackers to all vehicles in the country.
At a ceremony held at the Office of the President in Kampala, Waiswa Bageya the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works and Transport and Yunus Kakande his counterpart in the office of the President signed on behalf of the government while Ivan Sukraban, the Chief Executive Officer of Joint Stock Company, a Russian digital security company signed on its behalf.
According to Kakande, the President instituted an inter-ministerial committee that for the last four months has been working on identifying and the right company to carry out the task.
Kakande said that President Yoweri Museveni directed that all vehicles and motorcycles be fitted with tracking devices to help deal with criminals who he said use vehicles and motorcycles to kill people and then disappear without a trace. Museveni made similar comments in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on the life of Gen Edward Katumba Wamala in June.
Kakande said that the Russian company is going to run the project for two years and recoup their investment and then hand it over to the government of Uganda to manage.
Speaking at the same ceremony, Maj Gen. Jim Muhwezi the Minister of Security who witnessed the signing of the contract assured the country that the only purpose for which the government is going to track vehicles is to deal with insecurity. He added that they have no intention of interfering in the privacy of citizens. When challenged on the law they are basing on Muhwezi said whatever they are doing was embraced by government technocrats like the Solicitor General.
He added that those who believe that the government is acting outside the law, have the right to challenge it in court.
On when the project is expected to start and how much money car and motorcycle owners are going to be paying, Muhwezi said the committee will be deciding on these details in the coming days.
“The investor is going to come on the ground to establish centres in the different parts of the country working with Luwero Industries to start and then the public will be informed when each vehicle will be called to be registered to get new number plates with monitoring systems.
The payment will also be communicated because always registration of vehicles is not free of charge; anybody who owns a vehicle will meet that charge,†Muhwezi said.
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