A major dispute has erupted in the Tamale Mirundi family after his death. This is about where he will be buried and his family which has 3 women and several children has failed to harmonize on where to lay him to rest, and when to do the burial.

Initially, it was suggested by John his elder son that he be laid to rest in his ancestral home in Kalisizo, Kyotera District. And some other family members objected the suggestion immediately. This happened when the family members were still at Kasubi hospital.

This is when singer Bebe Cool who had already reached at the scene advised the family members to first hold a family meeting at home in Zana and harmonize. Bebe Cool’s suggestion was backed by Tamale Mirundi Junior who said that the family should sit first and decide.

Meanwhile, Bebe Cool has embarked on chasing to see that Tamale Mirundi is accorded a state funeral. He told the family that he will chase after that but the major requirement is to get a postmortem report as he said that the president will need to have a look at it first.

Bebe Cool further helped the family of Tamale Mirundi to harmonize with the accounts as he left where family had converged with John, Mirundi’s son and they went and cleared the bill. That is after the bill was settled that the body of Tamale was released and he was taken to Mulago for postmortem.

But as it stands, higher changes are that he may be buried in Kalisizo since he himself decreed it in his podcasts he used to make with journalist Kasuku. In what appeared to be a Will, Tamale Mirundi once said that when he dies, his body should be taken to the houses of all his three women, and then be taken to Kalisizo for burial.

Yet to be known lives have been lost amongst other properties after the Lusanja-Kitezi landfill collapsed and covered several houses. It should be noted that Kitezi landfill located in Mpererwe is Uganda’s largest and only sanitary engineered landfill.

Turned into an engineered facility in 2001, it has been receiving and processing over 1500 tons of garbage. However it reached its capacity a few years ago. KCCA was looking to fully close it sometime ahead before this tragedy happened.

In the morning of 10th August, the dumping site collapsed after heavy rains and ended up claiming several lives of people and other livestock. Animals’ such as cows could be seen lying dead in the garbage that eroded almost a kilometer from the accrual site.

Underneath the garbage there were houses buried under and people within since the tragedy happened in the early morning hours. Other properties such as excavators, trucks among others were also buried under the heavy garbage.

It’s not yet clarified how many people have lost their lives. The collapse has been likened to the infamous Bududa landslides that claimed hundreds of lives several years ago. One of the residents of the area, an elderly woman was seen wailing as she revealed that four of her children and a relative had been buried underneath the garbage.

She said that she woke up early in the morning to go to work and left them asleep. Apparently she doesn’t think that any of them survived. Additionally, she faulted the slow response of the authorities saying that if they had hurried, some lives could have been rescued.

Yet to be known lives have been lost amongst other properties after the Lusanja-Kitezi landfill collapsed and covered several houses. It should be noted that Kitezi landfill located in Mpererwe is Uganda’s largest and only sanitary engineered landfill.

Turned into an engineered facility in 2001, it has been receiving and processing over 1500 tons of garbage. However it reached its capacity a few years ago. KCCA was looking to fully close it sometime ahead before this tragedy happened.

In the morning of 10th August, the dumping site collapsed after heavy rains and ended up claiming several lives of people and other livestock. Animals’ such as cows could be seen lying dead in the garbage that eroded almost a kilometer from the accrual site.

Underneath the garbage there were houses buried under and people within since the tragedy happened in the early morning hours. Other properties such as excavators, trucks among others were also buried under the heavy garbage.

It’s not yet clarified how many people have lost their lives. The collapse has been likened to the infamous Bududa landslides that claimed hundreds of lives several years ago. One of the residents of the area, an elderly woman was seen wailing as she revealed that four of her children and a relative had been buried underneath the garbage.

She said that she woke up early in the morning to go to work and left them asleep. Apparently she doesn’t think that any of them survived. Additionally, she faulted the slow response of the authorities saying that if they had hurried, some lives could have been rescued.

Uganda’s youth population dubbed Gen Z has vowed to continue their March to Parliament protests against corruption. It should be noted that protests were organized on the 23rd of July. These however were unsuccessful as only a handful of these youths marched onto the streets.

Even those who did were met by stiff resistance from the different security agencies who had been deployed in different spots of Kampala two days earlier. According to these youths, they are going to give it another shot and won’t just back down.

Information shows that another March to Parliament protest is planned to take place on the 25th of July which will be on Thursday. They vowed not to stop until their protests yielded something positive. Some of the demands these youths made include the Speaker Anita Among.

They have dubbed her the mother of corruption in the current Parliament. They also want the number of MPs resized among other demands. These youths have now taken to social media to call out several personalities of influence who have failed to support them.

They have launched attacks against musicians and sportsmen saying that these are selfish. They however vowed to wait for them when they need their support too. Some of the musicians who came out to express support to these protests include the likes of Allan Toniks, Azawi, A Pass, and Ykee Benda among a few others.

Reacting to these protesters being blocked from accessing Parliament, the Deputy Speaker, Hon Thomas Tayebwa said that he wasn’t notified by these youths. He also got the information from social media. Therefore, there is no way he could have assisted them.

Besides, there seems to now be a split of opinion on how these protests should carry on. Some have suggested that youths to march to their MPs in their constituents while others are suggesting to wait for the 2026 general elections.

KAMPALA: Different Ugandans have taken to the different streets of Kampala to express their dissatisfaction with the rampant levels of corruption at Parliament. In a protest dubbed ‘March to Parliament’, they have highlighted seven demands that they want to be done by the government.

Among these 7 demands listed, they want the Speaker, Hon Anita Among to resign. Additionally, they also want the four Parliament Commissioners who were implicated in corruption a couple of months ago to resign and they include former Leader of Opposition, Hon Mathias Mpuuga.

Furthermore, they expressed their desire at the reduction of the number of MPs. It should be noted that there are over 500 MPs in Uganda’s Parliament which means more resources are lost to facilitate them. You find that a district has North, South constituencies, the a Municipality and a Woman Member of Parliament. Four legislators from the same district!

Besides that, the protestors also want all the Members of Parliament who have been implicated in corruption scandals to resign as investigations go on. On top of that, there should be an audit on the lifestyle of all the MPs which should then be publicized.

Furthermore, the salaries and allowances of these legislators which are abnormal should be reduced to just Shs3m. Lastly, these March to Parliament protesters want Ugandans to be left alone while exercising their right to peacefully demonstrate without being blocked by the police and army.

Although security has been beefed up in different parts of Kampala City, the protestors so far spotted haven’t been many. Only a handful so far have shown up with placards expressing their dissatisfaction and many of those have been arrested.