Mukono District

Residents, students, teachers and local leaders across Mukono District joined the inaugural monthly community work exercise on Saturday, with officials urging communities to revive the culture of communal work to improve sanitation, protect the environment and prevent disease.

Several men were arrested in Mukono after allegedly disguising themselves as women to participate in the women-only Local Council elections, amid isolated cases of disruption and complaints over irregularities.

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Residents of Koome Islands and Katosi in Mukono District were left disappointed after the long-awaited ferry failed to arrive for its scheduled launch, with leaders rejecting a vessel presented by the Ministry of Works and Transport as unsuitable for the promised service.

A former Nation Media Group journalist in Mukono has ventured into grassroots politics, securing the National Unity Platform ticket to contest for LCI chairperson of Nsambwe A Village, where he says he wants to champion accountability, service delivery and community development.

A Mukono Grade One Magistrate has remanded a 25-year-old primary school teacher to Kauga Government Prison after he was charged with aggravated defilement of a 16-year-old pupil. The case will be committed to the High Court, which has jurisdiction over capital offences.

The Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers has called for an independent investigation into the Mukono train-bus crash, saying the probe should examine possible infrastructure and safety failures beyond driver negligence.

Traders at the privately owned Nakifuma Market in Mukono District are counting losses worth millions of shillings after a fire gutted the market, prompting renewed calls for the government to construct a modern trading facility with improved sanitation and infrastructure.

A closely watched Local Council I election in Mukono District has taken an extraordinary turn after a National Unity Platform candidate challenged the long-serving village chairperson he calls his father, triggering a bitter dispute over family ties, leadership and residency.