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Kabale District ranked Second in Uganda in adhering to Government Procurement procedures.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communication officer-Kabale   Kabale District has been awarded for excelling and properly using the Government procurement portal-GPP in the procurement processes. Government Procurement Portal (GPP) is a system-based platform used for monitoring, informing, analyzing data, reporting etc. by PPDA, PDEs and Providers. According to the project director- Transparency international Uganda-Gerald Auku Padde, the award followed a survey which they conducted in 50 districts across the county, which had two components of capacity building and the rewarding aspect. Ibanda district came...

November 21, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Kabale District Roads committee commissions the one billion Roads Rehabilitation Grant.

By Alex Byakatonda.   Communications officer-Kabale Kabale District Roads committee has launched One billion shillings Roads Rehabilitation and Maintenance Grant for Kabale District. The launch of the utilization of the fund, followed a District Roads committee meeting, which was held in Chairman’s boardroom at the Kabale District headquarters and also chaired by the Kabale District woman Member of Parliament, also the District Roads Committee Chairperson, Hon Catheline Atwakiire Ndamira. The committee had sat to among others review the 2022/23 Annual Roads performance report for...

November 18, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Kabale District holds a budget consultative meeting for 2024/25FY.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale 07/011/2023 The Kabale District Chairperson, Nelson Nshangabasheija, has observed that the district will prioritize Infrastructure development in terms of roads, human capital development under Education and Health sectors, water and sanitation and Agro-industrialization in the 2024/25 Fiscal year. Nshangabasheija made the observation today, while speaking during the district budget consultative meeting for the financial year 2024/25. The meeting was held under the theme; “Full monetization of Uganda’s Economy through Commercial, Agriculture, Industrialization, Expanding and Broadening Services, Digital Transformation...

November 7, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Kabale District Chairman Nshangabasheija awards villages for being free of Open defecation.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale     The Assistant Kabale District Health Officer, Oliver Namanya, has warned residents against open defecation saying that they risk contracting sanitation-related diseases.   Namanya was on Tuesday, speaking at Kigogo Village in Buhara Sub County of Kabale district, where the villages of Kigogo and Bugarama all in Buhara Sub County and Kahama Village in Kitumba Sub County, were awarded with certificates for achieving open deification free (ODF). The certificates were awarded by Kabale District in partnership with Wells of Life,...

October 25, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Distribution of Mosquito nets for Kabale District to start on Friday 20th October.

By Alex Byakatonda     Communications officer-Kabale.   Kabale District is are this week set to run a two-day mass distribution of Insecticide treated mosquito nets to all households in the district. The district recently received 160720 nets from National Medical stores as part of the countrywide distribution program of aimed at curbing down cases of malaria.   Now, the Kabale District Health Educator, Alfred Besigensi, the mosquito nets, which are already of stores at the parishes, are to be distributed to beneficiaries on Friday and Saturday...

October 17, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Murungu Primary school in Rubaya Sub county to be refurbished in the 2024/25 FY.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale     Kabale District councillors, have expressed concern on inadequate and poor state of structures at s at Murungu public primary school in Rubaya Sub County.   Murungu Public Primary school is a government aided school which was started by parents in the early 1980s before it was taken up by the government. The school, which has an enrollment of 235 pupils, has five classes. During the visit to the school by the District’s council committee on Education and sports, councilors...

September 22, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Kabale District secures 400m Shillings to work on Maziba Health Centre IV.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale   Kabale District council has approved a supplementary budget of 400million shillings for infrastructure development at Maziba Health Center IV in Ndorwa East.   Presenting a motion for the approval of a supplementary budget before the District council that was presided over the Deputy Speaker, Ronald Mugisha Ian, this week, the Secretary for Health, Education and sports and Community based services, Hillary Byamukama said that the money was secured from the ministry of Health, adding that the project will commence...

September 22, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Rwandan National arrested in Kabale for operating an illegal soft drink factory.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale   Authorities in Kabale District have arrested a Rwandan National for allegedly operating an illegal Soft Drink factory, disregarding sanitation and hygiene guidelines and forging Uganda National Bureau of Standards stamp. The suspect who was identified as, Jaan De dieu Mbonimpa, a resident of Nyagatare district in the North East of Rwanda, was found producing a soft drink called “Marishari” in Kyanamira parish, Kyanamira sub county of Kabale District   The Kabale Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Godfrey Nyakahuma, said the...

September 7, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Micro-scale Irrigation can be an Agriculture Game changer in Kabale District.

BY Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale 28/07/2023. The Kabale District Principal Agriculture officer, Deus Baguma Bagambana, has urged farmers in the district to adapt new types of irrigation, saying that world over, irrigation can be an agriculture game changer, because of climatic changes. Baguma on Thursday addressing over 300 farmers from across the district, after two days of farmer visits to irrigation demonstration farms in Kahondo parish of Maziba Sub county and Buhara sub counties respectively. The demonstration farm, are part of the farms that...

July 28, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Kabale District Entomology department gives beekeeping equipment to Apiary farmers.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale 12/07/2023.   Kabale District local Government under the entomology department has donated beekeeping equipment to Apiary farmers worth millions of shillings.   According to the Senior Entomologist for Kabale District, Honest Tumuheirwe, the equipment includes, 95 Kenya top beehives, 10 overalls and 28 buckets among others, valued at 11,450,000 million shillings. Tumuheirwe, explains that the equipment was given to 10 selected apiary farmers, as demonstration on the use of these Kenya top beehives in Kabale District.   Speaking during the handover of the...

July 12, 20230 CommentsRead more...