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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has appealed to the education managers in Uganda to be clear on their historical role of imparting education basics to learners and helping them understand nature and its natural laws. This, according to the President, will help Ugandans solve problems in society. “Modern education in my view, especially the higher one, …

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5-year-old kills his 3-year-old brother in Kaliro

A five-year-old boy from Buvulunguti East village, Kaliro district on Wednesday allegedly accidentally caused the death of his three-year-old brother.

It is reported that the two were playing in the garden when the five-year-old boy got hold of the hoe and accidentally hit his young brother on the head. When he noticed that the brother had fallen on the ground, he ran and hid in the house.

When their grandfather, Nathan Gampwoile, returned home, he asked about the whereabouts of the three-year-old boy. They found the victim lying unconscious in the garden. He died later en route to the health facility.

Gampwoile said that what happened was purely an accident. He, however, said that they would conduct ritual cleansing on the offender, so as to deliver him from the curse of causing death to his brother.

"We have already lost the young child at the hands of his brother and in circumstances where such crimes are committed by toddlers, our culture demands ritual cleansing sessions of the offenders before the burial of the deceased, as a means of freeing them from the burden of guilty and future indulgences in related forms of criminality, throughout the course of their lives," Gampwoile said.

The LC I chairperson of Buvulunguti East village, Christopher Paasi said that many parents in the area are fond of abandoning their children at the hands of their aging grandparents who are too weak to look after the children.

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Plenary suspended over Zaake video ‘defaming’ MP Kinyamatama

The Deputy Speaker, Mr Thomas Tayebwa was Thursday afternoon forced to temporarily suspend House business after tempers flared during plenary over a video in which Mityana Municipality MP, Mr Francis Zaake is said to have made defamatory statements against the Rakai Woman MP, Juliet Kinyamatama. Shortly after plenary commenced, Ms Kinyamatama asked Parliament to intervene in what she described as the actions and demeaning statements that Mr Zaake is said to have made against her on October 9 at one of the rallies held in her constituency in Rakai District. “I raise on a matter of procedure. On the 9th of October one of our members, the Hon Zaake [went to my constituency] and used defamatory words against me. I […]