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Zombo welcomes Dr. Rao like a Messiah

Just celebrating the coming of the rains in the area after four months of serious famine and drought, people of Zombo in North Western Uganda were joined by another sigh of relief and good news in the month of October 10th and 11th  , 2009. It was the coming of a special visitor to them, a stranger and a donor whom non of them had heard of before. He is Dr. Rao Satapati, a Swiss national and a Director of CO-OPERAID Organization based in Zurich, Switzerland.Rao came to Zombo through a local and newly formed Community Based Organization (CBO) called Paidha Orphan and Vulnerable Community Based Organization (POVCCO) that is situated in Paidha town.Typical of Alur culture, invitation cards in ceremonies were not very vital. You just join in the ceremony when you hear the ululations.“Wa joli Dr. Rao i Atyak  mwawa wajoli pi naka in Zombo..  thua..”  Was the common tune sang to welcome Dr. Rao in the areas he made stop overs.   Pronouncing his name by the communities was not a problem because the word and the sound `Raw’ already exists in the Alur vocabulary meaning Hippopotamus. Nebbi area Woman Member of Parliament, Hon.Catherine Akumu Mavenjina and Paidha Mayor Innocent Geofrey Onega were the main government officials who flanked Dr. Rao in the District.Mavenjina promised Dr.Rao an Alur name and a road to be name after him.“This will also include the POVCCO Director Mr. Komakech Ongom who brought us this visitor (donor),” She said amidst big ululations in Biton market in Okoro Pamach village at Atyak Sub-County.Mavenjina who is aspiring to take Zombo as the next woman MP commended POVCCO for linking a donor to a new District.    This happiness came five months after Zombo, formerly Okoro County turned into a District that was carved from ancestral Nebbi. The jubilations of this District is still pending because the construction of the District Headquarters is still from the bush clearing at the Zombo village, off the junction to Zeu Sub-County.Like many rural community area in Uganda, Rao had to cruise through the bad road going West via Nyagak, Ayuda and Ora bridges to meet the communities of Paidha, Okoro Pamach, Atyak Community  and Warr.“Through POVCCO, our organization (CO-OPERAID) will next year  (2010) support HIV/ AIDS orphans in Zombo new District with scholastic materials, psychosocial support and poverty alleviation projects,” Dr. Rao said in all the communities in addressed in the tour. He said that CO-OPERAID aims at creating better life prospects for all needy children through schooling and vocational education so as to enable them to attain their right to education, as stated in the Second Millennium Development goal.“We implement our projects in close professional collaborations with local partner organizations. Whenever possible, we work with government agencies. A good example is our cooperation with the Ministry of Youth Affairs in Kenya, where we promote training of adolescents at twelve vocational colleges,” He said.CO-OPERAID currently is aiding many areas in the world. Some of them include DR Congo, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand and Philippines.  ENDS

Alur’s Ubimu calls for unity among the subjects   The King of Alur His Majesty Rwoth Phillip Olarker Rauni III has called up his subjects to forge unity among them selves, clan heads, and cultural leaders and to the Central government that is protecting them. Ubimu said this at his Kampala office on November 5th, 2009 through his Information and Mobilization Minister; Patrick Ongom Komakech. In his one hour address, Ubimu particularly hinted on the on going conflict in Padeya Jupadindo village in Jang-Okoro Sub-County in Okoro County where one of the biggest clans of Alur to have peace after four months of conflicts. He appealed to Chief Jakernga Daga to settle this dispute amicably and cautioned the Jang- Okoro community to calm down during this trying moment, putting in mind the aims and objectives of Alur Kingdom (Ker Alur) of promoting peace unity.“We are looking forward into this matter and we shall resolve it once and for all,” Rwoth Ubimu said. APPEALS TO SUBJECTS TO DEVELOP HOME: On the issue of Development, Rwoth Ubimo commended all the sons and daughters of Alur who have invested in various businesses like schools, Hotels, education, media and acquired various assets.However, he appeals to them (the subjects) to focus some of these developments at home (in Nebbi and Zombo) which has a vast un developed land. “I’m looking forward to see my people to set up a petrol station along our Karuma, Pakwach, Nebbi and Zombo highways. This is my biggest blessings to them in the coming year,” Ubimu said.He appealed to the youths in his Kingdom to take advantage of government projects and support the activities in the District. CONDEMNS AND WARNS THIEVES: In a bitter note, Ubimu condemned the increasing spirit of theft and idleness by some youths in the Kingdom who have taken up theft career for survival by stealing food staffs from granaries, breaking into houses and stealing food from people’s garden.“These act must stop immediately even before the law and Cultural leaders intervene in it,” Ubimu said. He cautioned these youths whom he never wanted to mention and reveals to them that theft is not part of Alur Culture. Previously, theft and witchcrafts are punishable by curses on the culprits by the chiefs and the village elders. “If they still continue stealing, they will be handled to the rightful authority who will handle them both lawfully and culturally,” Ubimu said.   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>END  

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Who is Lydia Draru?

  • Maj. Gen. Kazini's lover
    As classic as the biblical tale of Samson and Delilah- Lydia Draru,  who has confessed to bludgeoning former Army Commander and veteran of many battles James Kazini, is a woman with a troubled personal history- Daily Monitor can reveal.
    Sources tell a story of a party girl with big dreams whose life story was tied to the ups and downs of her dating diary. She was born in the mid eighties in Manibe Village, Ayivu County, about four kilometres north of Arua Town.
    Some accounts, however, suggest she is from Maracha-Terego.

    She left the village for the city to study as a 16-year-old and told her friends she had completed her A-levels at Old Kampala SS. She spoke fluent English and Luganda.

    By the late 90’s she surfaced at several bars – like Wilson-based DV8. Friends recall a darker skinned, curvaceous girl who loved music and partying, had a temper and appeared not to have any known income source or jobs.
    At one point- a sign of desperate times and the direction her life had taken- her picture surfaced on an adult website featuring Ugandan girls most of who were ladies of  the night.

    Some friends say around 2004 she had a relationship with a Canadian national which ended when the expatriate left the country two years later.

    It’s unclear when she met Kazini but she has been spotted occasionally hanging in the city with officers of visiting military delegations to Uganda.

    In 2007 Gen. Kazini asked the Wabigalo LC1 chairman, Mr Bosco Lule, to find a house for him.  In August that year Ms Draru moved into the house on Wabigalo Road.  She shared the house with her sister a student at Green Hill Academy and her brother a university student.
    Kazini was said to be footing their bills.

    “We only saw her coming in, sometimes with the General, or going out,” says Peter Walusimbi, a boda boda rider at the stage directly opposite her house.
    She frequented a hair salon for four years in Kisugu where she became friends with its proprietor. .

    The friend said Draru had told her she had dropped her “white man for a General” and recognised Kazini’s picture in the house when she visited her.

    Talking love
    She said the two had a good relationship and Draru often talked of her love for Kazini and that she was unbothered the General was a married man with children.

    The friend said the two, however, disagreed on whether they should have children. She claimed Kazini did not want children but assisted Draru, who unsure whether she could bear children, had an operation last year. It confirmed she was fine.

     “If she is not pregnant, then she was planning to get pregnant because she has been telling me that she wants to give birth before the end of next year,” the hair dresser, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said.

    And so it happened that their relationship violently bust into the national limelight at the time Kazini was no longer alive.
       However, one Bosco Lule, the LC1 chairman for Wabigalo, the village in which Ms Draru’s  house falls, was yesterday arrested on a theft charge related to the murder.

“We are not linking him to the murder,” Ms Nabakooba said, adding that the money may have been Gen. Kazini’s. “It is suspected that Draru gave some money [$300] to Lule after she committed the murder. The motive is not yet clear.”  According to the neigbour who prefer anonymity, the couple had a fight on that fateful morning that forced the little girl out of the house. The girl said the fight was too big in the way the general held tight the neck of Draru with an Intention to murder until she finally escaped from the general’s hand and landed on the metallic bar. The natives of the area have decided to name the street near the home where Kazini died as Kazini road; in the memory of the fallen general. “Kazini was too drunk. I think he fell on the broken glasses directly on his face,” The girl is quoted to have said. According to the bodaboda riders, Kazini had created a friendly environment with the Bodaboda cyclists and local people around Wabigalo.  “He one day last month gave money (50,000UGX) to ten of us happy while `bongering’ us.” “From that time when ever we see a military vehicle or a posh car around we know that the big man is around and we also provide him security” The boda man said. The bodaboda stage park exactly in front of CHOGM bar belonging to Kayondo, Assistant RDC Makindye Division. Draru is not known by many people around. She walks confident and always composed without chating with people around.     

 

 
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Residents, orphans and widows welcome Dr. Rao in Warr Community centre in Zombo District

Illegal Dog meat selling booms in UgandaKAMPALA : One of the two men from Kalerwe a Kampalan surbub, who were held at Wandegeya Police in Kampala on Aug 2nd  for slaughtering a dog was on  Aug. 7th, 2008  remanded in Luzia government prison.  Edward Katumba 18, was remanded through Kampala City Council  Court after he failed to meet 1,000,000 (one million) UGX Court bond while his colleague Musa Boogere 36, bond him self out. They were charged with injuring animals in violation of section 334 of the penal code Act. According to the Police source that prefers anonymity, Katumba will again appear before Court after two weeks while his colleague will attend the Court from his home. On Saturday, hundreds of angry residents jammed Wandegeya Police to see the two men, from Kinnubbi zone who had been caught with a fat dog’s carcass which Police suspected they planned to sell as goat’s meat popularly known as muchomo or nyama choma by Kenyans.   The officer incharge of Wandegeya Police Station Inspector Benard Otim said they had received a tip that morning that the two men were killing a dog to turn it into meat for sale to the public.  (click to see the photos on the photo show room)

 

Three UPDF soldiers die in Djibouti crush

Patrick Ongom Komakech

Kampala

Three UPDF soldiers (UPDF) died on Thursday morning in a motor accident in Djibouti, hours after they arrived in capital Djibouti for East African Brigade training exercise.

One of the dead soldiers has been identified as one Maj. Kahangye, the army Director of Political Commissary.

The Defence/army spokesperson, Lt. Col Felix Kulayigye said the Djibouti army truck which was carrying UPDF soldiers, rolled, before it crashed and killed three, and injuring a number of others.

 “The troop carrier crashed, and we lost three comrades. We were expecting the bodies last night, but I think they will arrive today,” he told Saturday Monitor yesterday.

Col. Kulayigye refused to reveal the identities of the two other victims, saying they were to inform their families before revealing their identities to the press.

“We have to first inform their families and I have not received a communication (on the identities of the dead) and when they would be buried,” he said.

The soldiers were travelling from “their first entry point” to the training venue, Kulayigye said.

However, according to the military source, seven were critically injured.  The deceased were in the second lot batch of 58 troops who had just landed successfully from the plane on November 26.

Another batch of the soldiers that will make a total of 139 troops slated to attend training left yesterday.

The training which is to start on November 29 is to train a total of 139 UPDF soldiers in peace keeping, counter terrorism, disaster management, fitness, military managerial skills and crisis management, a source said.

The soldiers will also be lectured on regional peace and security initiatives in the East and Central Africa.

The east African brigade was train along with forces from Ethiopia Zimbabwe, China, Kenya and South Africa.   

In September this year, 50 UPDF soldiers were trained in Djibouti in military planning in disaster management and operational skills for peace keeping in Somali.

 
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