“When the fight becomes lonely, the crowd thins quickly.” -Ndigejjerawa Anko @TonyNatif the records have you. You have been there for @MaleMabiriziHKK, you have always asked for updates, you have advocated for him, defended him even when those he called friends went silent. Tnx

I hate the fact that they are using sickle cells as an excuse to eat money well knowing that almost 60% of Ugandans are carriers and if you object. U will be tagged as a person who doesn't have the interests of the country at heart 💔

I need to pay more attention to Tony's fight with that section of the Police. The man has been relentless 🤣

Yesterday the Inspector General of Government (IGG) interdicted the current CEO of Uganda National Mining Company (UNMC), Mr Gerald Banaga-Baingi, and the Corporation Secretary, Lelia Bwambale, to pave way for a full investigation of the organization. Now, sources at UNMC say that Mr Banaga-Baingi is still in office. Apparently, the chairperson of the board, Mrs Maria Kiwanuka, has not officially notified Mr Banaga-Baingi of this decision - for whatever reasons. Nonetheless, Banaga-Baingi must have read the official statement of the IGG on X (Twitter). His continued presence in office is obvious defiance of the IGG. It must therefore be aimed at covering up evidence. I have spoken to the CDF who is also chairman of PLU and the leading person in the anti corruption crusade, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. He says he fully supports the decision of the IGG. Mr Banaga-Baingi’s defiance of the IGG cannot be tolerated. He is advised to leave office immediately or face the full force of the state to evict him forcefully by police or UPDF.

Which DNA are you referring to? Mubiru himself testified in court that he never tested Molly’s DNA on the grip or the safety. Even an amateur knows that checking for DNA on the grip is one of the first things a forensics team does.

📌The Austrian Government, @UNFPAUganda and @GovUganda Launch €3.4M SAFER Phase III to Advance Justice, SRHR and GBV Services in Northern Uganda Today, @MoJCAUG Permanent Secretary, Mr. Robert Kasande together with Ms. @rachel_odoi, the Senior Technical Advisor-JLOS Secretariat hosted the official signing of a €3.42 Million Tripartite Agreement between the Austrian Government, @UNFPAUganda and @GovUganda at JLOS Towers, Kampala. The agreement launches Phase III of the SAFER Project (2026–2029) – Sexual and Reproductive Health, Access to Justice, Freedom, Equality and Rights – under the leadership of the @MOJCA and the @Mglsd_UG. What SAFER III will deliver: Building on Phases I & II, the project will expand survivor-centred access to justice, uphold SRHR, and address GBV across Karamoja, Acholi and Lango sub-regions, targeting 830,872 direct beneficiaries – primarily women, adolescent girls, persons with disabilities and underserved communities. Key interventions include: ▶️Scaling up integrated SRHR, GBV prevention & response, and legal services ▶️Strengthening institutional capacity – ODPP, Uganda Police Force, Uganda Prison Service, UHRC, Local Council Courts – to reduce case backlogs through special court sessions and ADR ▶️Advancing social transformation by tackling harmful practices including FGM, child marriage, and emerging forms of violence such as technology-facilitated GBV “This support reflects Austria’s continued commitment to strengthening the rule of law and protecting the rights of vulnerable populations,” said @Dr_KatjaK, Head of Austrian Embassy in Uganda “By streamlining integrated health, justice, and protection services, UNFPA is committed to ensuring that every survivor of GBV receives rapid, dignified, and survivor-centered support,” said Ms. Kristine Blokhus, @UNFPAUganda Country Representative. The programme uses a systems-strengthening approach, embedding into national structures for sustainability, with CSOs such as @uwonet. This is fully aligned with Uganda’s Fourth National Development Plan (NDP IV). We thank the Government of Austria and UNFPA for this continued partnership.

ICYMI: ACP Andrew Mubiru admits, with difficulty, that all blood he found allover the Katanga bedroom was Mrs Katanga’s except blood on the bed where Mr Henry Katanga was found dead in a pool of his own blood, gun besides him. He also acknowledged that @PoliceUg investigators weren’t interested in how Mrs Katanga was injured and bled allover the bedroom. GBV and the Law: Twice a Victim As a society, we love the aesthetics of activism against GBV but the moment a victim fights back to stay alive , the system and public turns on them. We are literally incarcerating the victims we claim we want to protect. Nowhere has this been more stark than this court session I’m gonna share. Background Mrs Molly Katanga is charged with shooting and killing her husband on the morning of 2/Nov/2023. The state alleges there was a “domestic brawl” in the couple’s bedroom after which the wife shot the husband on the left side of his head and he died. Her children, house help and a medical personnel who rushed to the scene are also charged as accessories after the fact. They’re said to have tampered with the crime scene and destroyed evidence. This, despite the SOCO telling court that in his opinion, the state got all the evidence they could have needed from the scene. On Mrs Katanga’s side, her defense is that she was a victim of egregious domestic violence at the hands of her husband. The beatings she took, according to the Head of Medical Services in Police Dr Moses Byaruhanga could have killed her if there was no immediate medical attention. He was a state witness. The house-help, Mr George Amanyire reported hearing loud cries for help from her as her now deceased husband beat her relentlessly. George tried to intervene but the husband ordered him away and continued beating her as she continued crying for help which never came. Then silence, briefly interrupted by a loud sound that house occupants thought was a breaking glass, then more silence later interrupted by calls for help by Mrs Katanga. George reportedly rushed back upstairs only to find a trail of blood on the floor which he followed and found Mrs Katanga lying in a pool of her own blood in her son’s room adjacent to the couple’s bedroom, blood gushing from both hands, and her head. He told police that he thought her brains were oozing out. Her hands were barely attached to the rest of the arm. She was whispering “my children, my children”. A medic, Mr Charles Otai was immediately called. So was police, Mrs Katanga’s children and Mr Katanga’s sister Naome Nyangweso. The two daughters and Mr Otai showed up almost immediately. The police showed up more than 2 hours later and pretty much jailed whoever was at the scene. The Sister in law showed up long after she’d been told her brother had died. Mrs Katanga was rushed to IHK where medical intervention saved her life. Back to the scene on Chwa II road, the immediate family alleged suicide, the state briefly investigated that then immediately abandoned it and substituted it for homicide. Thus started a murder case that’s now inched into its third year. To support their murder charge, then DPP Jane Frances Abodo claimed in her indictment that she had evidence of Mrs Katanga’s DNA on the gun; which, when taken with other evidence at the state’s disposal would prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Molly Katanga killed her husband. Mrs Katanga, after public pressure and a ferocious media onslaught-mounted by her sister in law Naome Nyangweso and some other Katanga associates- was yanked out of her hospital bed and dragged before a Magistrate in Nakawa, in a wheelchair. She was immediately dispatched to Luzira where she still is to this day; having been denied bail thrice. When the trial eventually started in 2024, the state brought out its star witness, ACP Andrew Mubiru. He’s the Director of Forensic Services in Uganda Police and he’s said to have analyzed the DNA samples in this case and found Mrs Katanga’s DNA dominant on the pistol magazine, barrel as well as trigger and trigger housing. The presiding Judge, Her Lordship Rosette Comfort Kania partly relied on that to find a case to answer against Mrs Katanga. She’s currently in the middle of her defense. Anyway, back to Mr Mubiru’s court appearance: He did say he was the one who did DNA analysis in this case; then when pressed further said he wasn’t the one who did it but a one Barnabas Haririmana did it and he only worked as a reviewer and supervisor. He indicated that then DPP Abodo made up those claims of having DNA evidence pinning Mrs Katanga; the same having not been processed at the time of indictment. We’ve covered this extensively. Today, we’ll concentrate on the domestic violence issue. In the witness stand was Mr Andrew Mubiru; being cross examined by Defense Attorney Mr Elison Karuhanga of Kampala Associated Advocates. Video in Frame 1 Mr Mubiru had told court that DNA can be transferred from one individual to another and even from that individual to an object. He said he didn’t test for background DNA on the gun so his report could not tell who put DNA on it, how it was put (activity level analysis) or even when it was put. The import of this being that even if Mr Katanga held his wife’s hand a week earlier and then held his gun for cleaning or anything, her DNA could be transferred there and thus be found there by Mr Mubiru. Ditto the fact that the gun was found on the bed shared by the couple ultimately meant that it was expected to have both their DNA. That’s not really controversial. Mr Mubiru’s report also indicated that the couple’s bedroom had blood allover it and except for the bed, the rest of the blood was Mrs Katanga’s. Mr Karuhanga then took him through the different areas her blood was found, according to police swabs taken, analyzed and reported by Mr Mubiru. EK to AM: Next one is blood from the swab of the door handle for the bedroom opposite the master bedroom. Again would I be correct to say Molly Katanga bled while making contact with that door? AM: My Lord he’s talking about activity, I cannot talk about activity. I can only tell you about the source. EK: The source is blood. You see now we are at a different level. AM: Yes EK: The gun you don’t know what it is. This you know someone was bleeding (Note: AM had said he didn’t know which material he tested on the gun. He simply said it was “biological material of human origin”. When pressed as to what type it was, he said it could be anything: skin cells, sweat etc. Mrs Katanga’s hands were heavily bleeding and the expectation is if indeed she had held the gun, the state could have found blood on it. They didn’t.) AM: Yes, and that is Molly’s blood (on the door handle). EK: That is Molly’s blood? AM: Yes Judge Muwata: It was where? EK: On the door opposite the master bedroom EK to AM: And the next one….Molly’s blood was in the changing room. AM: Yes, that is in the changing room inside the master bedroom. EK: You even recovered her hair, which is on the next page… AM: Yes EK: With blood AM: Yes, that is a piece of hair with suspected blood stains….EK cuts him off and says “recovered from a door frame…” AM agrees and adds “in the washroom”. Judge: Her hair? Is he the one who recovered it? EK: My Lord I’m not sure, he was there. AM: My Lord I did not recover it. I examined exhibit labeled H, a piece of hair with suspected blood stains recovered from the door frame of the washroom. EK: And that is Molly Katanga’s hair with blood. AM: Silence EK: Now, explain to us activity level propositions. (Note: you might not tell what it is from Mr Mubiru’s complex answer but activity level looks at how and when DNA material was deposited on an item instead of just saying XYZ’s DNA is there. It’s important to do this in order to establish a clear DNA trail and then criminality if present. For a gun crime for instance, one can shake your hand then a few hours later, pull a trigger in your absence. Your DNA can be there but it doesn’t mean you put it there by pulling the trigger or that you touched the gun at all). Now to AM’s answer: My Lord, activity level propositions are propositions that would ordinarily be developed by an expert….they should be developed in pairs and they should be mutually exclusive. EK tries to get him to be clearer: But they are propositions that deal with the activity that caused DNA to be deposited AM: Yes; propositions are formulated prior to undertaking any analysis. EK: My question is; are they propositions that….you’re just making a speech, let’s deal with the question you’ve been asked. AM: My Lord I was asked to explain activity level propositions and that’s what I’m explaining. These propositions are ideally supposed to be done before analysis is done and they result from an investigator who has been able to interview either the victim or the suspect. EK: An activity level proposition would be able to tell the activity that caused the DNA to be deposited there AM: My Lord the propositions that we form are only able to give you an indicator of whether to believe a certain set of propositions or the other. So, that’s why we do them in pairs; mutually exclusive and they should be developed after a careful analysis by the investigators’ interview of both the victim or the suspect EK: Would it take a forensic scientist to know that if you found blood on the side of the door with someone’s hair, that person’s head was bashed on that door? Do you need a Master’s from King’s College London( for that)? (Note: Mr Mubiru got his graduate degree from KCL). AM: No, my Lord, that’s not our role. We cannot begin developing propositions without a clear instruction from the investigator. Judge Muwata: Develop what? EK to the Judge: He can’t develop propositions without a clear instruction from the investigator. EK to AM: So, the investigators were not interested in knowing how Molly Katanga’s blood was deposited allover that room? AM: I don’t know. He then said he couldn’t answer for the investigators as he wasn’t one.

The High Court used to be a very respectable Court and practicing before it was such an honour. I wish that this remains the same position.

Solicitor General Reaffirms MoJCA Commitment to Strengthening Alternative Dispute Resolution The Solicitor General, @PiusPerryB1 , has reaffirmed @MoJCAUG's commitment to strengthening the Centre for Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (@CADR_MoJCA) to promote professional, accessible and effective Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) services in Uganda. Biribonwoha made the remarks this morning, while officiating at the opening of the African Women in Arbitration (@WArbitration ) Investment Arbitration Training Workshop at JLOS Towers, Naguru, Kampala. The two day workshop, running from 22–23 October 2026, brings together arbitration practitioners and other stakeholders to strengthen professional capacity, promote knowledge-sharing, and advance arbitration and alternative dispute resolution across Africa. @PiusPerryB1 thanked AWA, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), CADR, the World Bank Group, the Law Society – Legal Aid Project and other partners for supporting initiatives that advance arbitration and dispute resolution on the continent. He emphasised that @MoJCAUG remains committed to providing the institutional support and enabling environment necessary for CADR to effectively discharge its mandate. “ A credible ADR institution requires not only a sound legal foundation, but also appropriate structures, capable personnel, effective systems, professional standards, and meaningful stakeholder collaboration,” he said.

This is an important concern, and it’s encouraging to see more people paying attention to the air we breathe. Fine particles such as PM₂.₅ can penetrate deep into the lungs and contribute to respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Their effects can occur without immediately noticeable symptoms. With initiatives like the Uganda Clean Air Institutions Initiative (UCAII), hopefully the data gap can be eventually closed. Data communicates where pollution is highest and when it rises helps guide investigations into its sources, and target solutions where they are needed most.

To be fair, @PharmacistsUg is well within its rights and mandate. You might also know that the pharmaceutical industry is one of the most regulated, most protectionist spaces in this region. Mafia too. Also, the profession attracts some of the smartest Ugandans. @SLutoti went to pharmacy school back when the country had one such school that admitted about 10 students a year. He’s also taught pharmacy law for almost 2 decades. It is very difficult to think they could have made that decision without being fortified by the law. @MbararaUST has historically produced some of the smartest and most hardworking pharmacists in this country. It’s a good pharmacy school. This ego-trip might not be worth it.