Uganda: Young Couple Asks Museveni to Help in Tracing Lost Baby

This stoy was written in the Independent by Ronald Musoke, 26 July 2013

A youthful couple that allegedly lost one of their twin babies at Mulago Hospital’s Maternity Ward last year has asked President Museveni to intervene and save their young family from agony.According to Jennifer Musimenta, 21, the mother to the missing baby, she went to Mulago Hospital on the afternoon of March 14 last year to deliver and indeed she delivered two baby girls.However, she was surprised when moments later; one of the nurses told her that one of the babies had died. Continue reading

There won’t be pay raise – Museveni

This story was written in Daily monitor by Frederic Musisi on the July 14 2013

 President Museveni has said his government has no plans for increasing salaries for workers and those who feel unsatisfied should seek alternatives elsewhere.“Government’s focus is on boosting infrastructural development and not salary increases as demanded by various trade unions,” the President said during the grand finale of “Sawa ya Cash,” a youth entrepreneurial reality game show, on Friday.

Singling out the workers umbrella body, the National Organisation of Trade Unions (Notu), which recently gave ultimatum to the government to adopt a minimum wage, as “unfocused,” he added that, “whoever feels unsatisfied can try out employment in some organised places like Tanzania, where trade unions achieve most of what they champion for.”“Wherever I go, people ask for Continue reading