Bulange Fire Caused by Petrol

6 NEW VISION, Thursday, November 1, 2012 BUGANDA NEWS Judicial officers Bulange fire Lawyer blasts Police over witchcraft urged to use IT PICTURE BY ALI MAMBULE By ALI MAMBULE Judicial officers, planners and statisticians working caused by Kampala-based state in the justice systems prosecutor Susan Okalany have been urged has attacked the Police over to use Information what she called promoting Communication witchcraft by protecting Technology (ICT) in gender petrol – report traditional herbalists, some reporting so as to dispense of whom engage in human justice faster for the victims By JEFFA LULE AND doors and hurling insults at sacrifice. of sexual violence. The call INNOCENT ANGUYO the guards. Okalany said the Police, was made by Valentine “The head of KPU Capt. especially in the central Namakula, the director of The fire that gutted a security Steven Mivule Kisitu region, were promoting Centre for Justice Studies house at Bulange-Mengo (deceased) sent Pte. Vincent witchcraft by providing and Innovations, during claiming four lives and Katende to check on her. security to the traditionalists a training on gender injuring three others was As he opened the door, fire pretending to be healing reporting at Imperial caused by petrol, according broke out, killing the woman those attacked by demons. Resort Beach Hotel last to the Government analytical instantly while Katende took “I have seen this so many week. She said the use of laboratory report. off with severe injuries,” the times and I confirm that ICT in data entry would Bulange is the administrative report notes. our country needs a lot enable judicial officers to seat for Buganda Kingdom Nabakooba said by the time of prayers to stop such know how long a case has located in Mengo, a Kampala the Police arrived, the body of practices,” Okalany said. taken to be concluded. suburb. The security house is the unidentified woman had She was on Tuesday managed by Kabaka Protection been taken to Mengo Hospital. presenting a paper about Unit (KPU) guards under the human sacrifice during Okalany (left) listening to one of the traditional healers Farmers told to Uganda People’s Defence a one-day workshop Forces (UPDF). for traditional healers, traditional healers. traditional healers. go commercial The Police say the fire herbalists, Police and local “You must check However, Masaka District began at the lavatory where leaders at Maria Flo Hotel yourselves,” she told the Traditional Healers’ Ntenjeru North MP Amos a jerrycan containing petrol in Masaka town. healers before turning to Association chairperson Lugoloobi has urged had been kept and spread Okalany, who prosecuted the Police officers whom she Kayinga Kiggundu said the residents in Kayunga to other parts of the security Kampala businessman advised not to give security Police should help them district to practice house, instantly killing one Godfrey Kato Kajubi in to the healers. wipe out the fake healers. commercial agriculture if unidentified woman and the murder case of Joseph Okalany advised that The southern regional they are to kick poverty out injuring six other people. Kasirye in 2008, said in cases where pupils or Police commander, Simon of their homes. Lugoloobi According to the Police, the she was shocked by the communities are attacked Peter Wafana, said they were was addressing parents, room was next to the kitchen evidence produced against by ‘demons’, they should be providing security to only teachers and students of which already had fire. the convict (Kajubi), which taken to a psychiatrist or a genuine traditional healers. Hopeful Future Secondary Police spokesperson Judith Judith Nabakooba indicated that there is no nearby hospital for medical who did not sacrifice School in Ntooke Kayunga Nabakooba on Tuesday said training given to those checkup instead of inviting human beings. sub-county during the the petrol could have been The Police interviewed school’s social day on poured by the unidentified independent witnesses with Saturday. He said many woman who had been the aim of establishing the people in the area were detained there. cause of the inferno, according MPs probe loss of coffee workers’ pension living in poverty because The report released by to the report. they grow crops only Nabakooba indicated that the Nabakooba said the post- By PAUL KIWUUWA payment and also investigate the Ministry for home consumption. unidentified woman, who was mortem examination done of Finance officials who defied presidential “It is high time people demanding to see the Katikiiro by the Government analytical Legislators have started investigating how directives to compensate them. changed from subsistence (kingdom’s prime minister), laboratory found plastic-like terminal benefits for former workers of Coffee The petitioners said sh6.4b was paid to to commercial farming. attempted to enter Bulange material in the body of the Marketing Board Ltd were misappropriated. them upon retirement in 1998, but are still This will lead to economic premises, but was blocked by woman. The same materials The probe by the parliamentary committee demanding sh10.3b in terminal benefits. transformation of this security. were found at the scene. on legal affairs follows a petition signed by The committee chaired by Stephen area,” Lugoloobi noted. She was later arrested by two Capt. Kisitu, Robert 1,568 workers who are seeking sh10.3b Tashobya yesterday tasked the Secretary The school director, soldiers and placed in one of Ssebuguzi and Betty compensation as terminal benefits from the of the treasury, Keith Muhakanizi and the Theodorus Lyazi, said the the rest rooms at the security Nakanwagi also died at Privatisation Unit. director Privatization Unit in Ministry of multi-million school was house where she allegedly Nakasero Hospital after The petitioners said MPs should ensure Finance, David Ssebabi, to explain the constructed by Greeks. became violent, banging the sustaining severe burns. that they (former workers) receive their claims..

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