Crisis As Kabale Runs Out of Fuel

A fuel crisis has hit Kabale district forcing transport fares to shoot up.
 
 
People line up for fuel today Morning at shell Kigezi

A survey carried out by our reporter at various Fuel pump stations in Kabale shows that a liter of petrol goes for shillings 5000 up from 3800 shillings while on the black market it costs between 6000 and 7000 shillings. The affected pump stations are Agaba services, Kobil, Kabale, Gapco, and Shell Kigezi.
Information obtained shows that, most of the pump stations ran out of fuel on Tuesday evening. Jane Tindyebwa, the manager of shell Kigezi says despite the increased demand for fuel they don’t have any supplies.
Mark Niwagaba, the manager of Agaba Services fuel station says they have not been able to stock any fuel since it ran out on Tuesday.
He says they are currently stuck because of lack of fuel supplies from Kampala, despite the fact that they are willing to buy fresh supplies to meet their customer’s demand.
As a result, boda boda motorists in Kabale town have increased their fares by 500 shillings. The shortest distance out of Kabale town which would cost 2000 shillings now costs between shillings 2500 and 3500.
Mahad Issah, a boda boda motorist blames the fuel shortage on businessmen he accuses of hoarding fuel so as to increase their profit margin.
Windom Niwagaba, another Boda Boda motorist says they have been trying to cope with the high prices but it is unfortunate that the fuel is now where to be seen.
Taxi drivers are not happy with the state of affairs either. Andrew Byomukama plies the Kabale-Kasiizi route. He says the transport fare have shot up from shillings 8000 to 12000.
Christmas David, a driver along the Mbarara –Kabale Route says the fare from Kabale to Mbarara has increased from 15,000 to 20,000 shillings. He says many drivers have opted to park their vehicles.
Our reporter visited the usually busy Kabale taxi park on Thursday and found only a handful of passengers and travelers.

I Watch Soccer To Check Out Hunks – Zuena

Singer Bebe cool’s wife Zuena Kirema has voiced what most women refuse to acknowledge that the only reason she watches football is to check out hunks.

 
 
Zuena Kirema Bebe Cool’s wife.


The gorgeous mother of three posted on her official Facebook page that; “Every time I check my FB wall people are talking about football. I feel like am missing out however much I try to concentrate I fail. If am not looking at the right hand corner counting time, I am busy checking out the hottest players.
Moses Ssali is my witness, my fellow ladies bail me out on this oba I just don’t have interest?

Mugabe turns 90 - with no idea of the secret to his longevity

 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe eats ice cream after addressing the crowd at his inauguration and swearing-in ceremony on August 22, 2013 at the 60,000-seater sports stadium in Harare. Mugabe will turn 90 with no idea of the secret to his longevity.

HARARE,

"I do not know how I have come to live this long," Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said a month ahead of his 90th birthday, which he celebrates on Friday.

Africa's oldest leader, he has outlived most of his younger siblings and most of his political foes.

"It is all God's will," he said at the burial of his younger sister Bridget who died aged 78.

Mugabe once quipped he would rule his country until he turned 100.

After winning a new five-year term last year, after more than three decades in power, he is not far from reaching that goal.

The country's new constitution could see the man who first came into office as prime minister at age 56, serve as president until he is 99.

After three turbulent decades at the helm of the former British colony, the firebrand leader has gone from a darling of the West to international pariah.

Mugabe swept to power in 1980 as an independence hero in the fight against white minority rule, bringing democracy to millions of black Zimbabweans, and was widely credited with health and education reforms.

He was also lauded for forging reconciliation between blacks and whites at independence -- having offered some key ministerial posts to moderate white politicians.

More praise was showered upon him for allowing Ian Smith, the white supremacist Rhodesian ruler who had jailed him for a decade, to stay on in Zimbabwe serving as a lawmaker.

But Mugabe's lustre quickly faded.

From crushing political dissent to ushering in disastrous land reforms that saw the economy crumble, many accuse Mugabe of turning the regional breadbasket into a basket case.

NATIONALISTIC LEADER

Born on February 21, 1924, at Kutama Mission northwest of the capital Harare, Mugabe was raised in a Catholic family and was described as a loner and a studious child.

After his father walked out on Mugabe's mother and siblings when he was 10, the young man concentrated ever harder on his studies, and qualified as a schoolteacher at the age of 17.

An intellectual who initially embraced Marxism, he enrolled at Fort Hare University in South Africa, meeting many of southern Africa's future black nationalist leaders.

As a member of various nationalist parties that were banned by the white-minority government, Mugabe was detained in 1964 and spent the next 10 years in prison camps or jail.

He used his incarceration to gain three degrees through correspondence courses, but the years in prison left their mark.

His four-year-old son by his first wife Sarah Francesca Hayfron died while he was behind bars, but Rhodesian leader Smith would not allow him leave to attend the funeral.

On release from jail in 1974 he became leader of the ZANU party, and left for neighbouring Mozambique from where his banned group staged a guerrilla war on white minority-ruled Rhodesia.

Economic sanctions and war forced Smith to negotiate, after which ZANU came to power in the 1980 election.

His initial period in office was based on public reconciliation, but Mugabe soon showed that his velvet glove cloaked an iron fist.

He put down a revolt among the minority Ndebele people with his North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade in a campaign that killed an estimated 20,000 suspected "dissidents" between 1982 and 1986.

Faced with angry war veterans, in 2000 he launched controversial land reforms, driving out white farmers and seizing their land in often violent rampages by his supporters.

Despite strong opposition to his rule, Mugabe retains the support of a significant proportion of Zimbabweans, who cherish his image as a freedom fighter.

Following the death of his first wife, he married his personal secretary who is 41 years younger than him. They have two sons and a daughter.

BLISTERING RHETORIC

In recent years, Mugabe - one of the world's easily recognisable leaders with his philtrum-only moustache and thick-rimmed spectacles -- often embraced his new role as the antagonist of the West.

He uses blistering rhetoric to blame Zimbabwe's downward spiral on Western sanctions.

"If people say you are dictator... you know they are saying this merely to tarnish and demean your status, then you don't pay much attention," he said in a 2013 documentary.

He has told his critics to "go hang" and has vowed to forge ahead with his drive to empower blacks by forcing foreign-owned companies to cede their majority shares to locals.

Even as he turns 90, as he enters his 34th year in power, and his health is increasingly questioned, there is no hint of a succession plan in his party.

"The 89 years don't mean anything," said the iron self-confident Mugabe shortly before last year's election.

"They haven't changed me, have they? They haven't withered me. They haven't made me senile yet, no. I still have ideas, ideas that need to be accepted by my people."

EAC single tourist visa launched

 East African heads (L-R) Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni in Munyonyo yesterday.

KAMPALA- Tourists visiting Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda will now need a single instead of multiple visas to tour the three East African countries.

This followed the launch of the East African Tourist Visa by the regional heads of states yesterday in Kampala where President Museveni, in his remarks took a swipe at the international community for contemptuously lecturing him on homosexual matters.

Mr Museveni said regional integration will not only provide formidable markets but also politically strengthen East Africa.

He gave an example of how the international community is mounting pressure on him not to sign the anti-gay Bill into law as a move by the Western powers to belittle weak nations.

“We (Uganda) are being given lectures on homosexuals because we are weak,” Mr Museveni said. He continued: “How can you start lecturing an old man with a bald head on how to run his home? This is my house I know how to run it—this is contempt.”

According to Mr Museveni, the strength of East Africans does not lie in the numerous tribes and religion but in the huge markets that the integration presents.

Together with President Paul Kagame and Uhuru Kenyatta, they launched the tourist regional visa that will reduce bureaucracies involved in getting multiple visas.

Burundi and Tanzania which were formerly left out of the regional infrastructure projects, were this time represented and in their communication they noted the need for all the EAC partner states to move on the same page.

“Burundi fully supports the integration infrastructure projects and it’s a right of Burundi to take an active role in this process. We need to be involved in all the technical and political decisions,” the second Vice President of Burundi, Mr Gervas Rufyikiri, said in his communication yesterday.

While the Tanzanian Vice President, Mr Mohammad Gharib Bilal, said his country though willing, will be observing the developments closely as it unfolds.

South Sudan, which has applied to join the EAC, called on the regional leaders to condemn the resumption of fighting in the world’s newest nation.

South Sudan Foreign Minister, Benjamin Marial Barnaba said more than 500,000 people have been displaced. And 800,000 have sought refuge in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Mr Barnaba told the summit the Presence of Ugandan troops in South Sudan should be appreciated and not condemned. International Community is opposed to UPDF continued presence in South Sudan where they have been fighting alongside South Sudan government forces.

President Kenyatta said the single regional tourist visa marks the beginning of free movement of goods and person in the regional.

The Rwandan President, Mr Paul Kagame whose country spearheaded the establishment of regional single tourist visa, said its launch was important illustration of commitment to integration process.

1,200 miss Kyambogo graduation

KAMPALA-The acting Vice Chancellor of Kyambogo University, Prof Elly Katunguka has regretted the errors that were committed in the compilation of students’ names who were supposed to graduation yesterday and today, promising that victims who fulfilled all the academic and financial requirements, but were erroneously left out will have a special graduation mid this year.

Special graduation
Speaking at the 10th graduation ceremony yesterday, Prof Katunguka said, although about 7,913 students were supposed to graduate, only 6,713 had been cleared by graduation time.
“We apologise for the error as an institution ,but we have agreed with the students that a special graduation will be organised for them soon,” he said.

Worst still, even those who graduated yesterday were upset by the university’s failure to provide them with graduation booklets and this momentarily forced them to interrupt the ceremony shouting “booklets, booklets ” in direct reference to graduation booklets provided to graduands before the ceremony.

Gossip:Tension At NBS Over Loswash

Snoops have established that there is increasing tension at Kamwokya based NBS Television over new incredibly curvy Pundonor Magazine host Agatha Atiti well known as Agatha Loswash.

According to sources at the station, other female employees feel Loswash is favoured by management because whatever she demands for, she gets it.
“Other employees especially babes feel sidelined since she joined the station, there have been several chances in her favour,” intimates the source.
Apparently experts believe that Loswash could be targeted because of her beauty since she gets more attention than the rest of the babes at the station.
The fact that Loswash is taking her fans on a boat cruise this Saturday has not helped the situation.
Before taking over Pundonor Magazine, she and Precious Mabel Twegumye were clashing over the program ownership but Loswash won the battle and took it over.

MARRIED PASTOR CAUGHT RED-HANDED CHEATING WITH MARRIED WOMAN IN HOTEL ROOM,DOUBLE CLICK AND READ MORE

 Pastor Anthony Maina in hotel room

 pastor in Kenya, is out of a job after he was caught red-handed with a married woman in a hotel room.
The pastor of a church in the city of Embu, who was caught with the married woman on Sunday, addressed his congregation and asked for forgiveness.
Pastor Anthony Maina of the Kenya Assemblies of God Eastern Gate Church, arrived with his wife Beth, and two children, and said that he did not commit adultery with the woman when they were caught in the hotel room in the city of Karatina, Nyeri County.
“I'm here to tell everyone that I made a mistake, and I have sought God's forgiveness. The incident saved me because I would have committed more sins,” he said.
The church announced that it had suspended the pastor indefinitely.
“The pastor has committed a crime that goes against the teachings of God, and therefore, he can no longer serve in the church,” a spokesperson for the church said.
Beth said that she had forgiven her husband, saying that they have to come together and move forward as a family.