Man wins Shs7.7 billion in betting

A Lucky Kenyan has won a Sh221 million equivalent to Uganda Shillings 7.7 billion SportPesa mega jackpot, an amount that can finance the construction of the Kenya Sports Academy — as allocated by the National Treasury — and still leave a Sh21 million balance.

The winner, Samuel Abisai, who was unveiled on Tuesday in a red-carpet ceremony at the Carnivore Restaurant in Nairobi, won the mega jackpot after correctly predicting all the 17 games.

It is one of the biggest payouts in African history.

PAYING SALARIES

With Victor Wanyama earning Sh1 million daily at English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur, the amount can pay his salary for seven months and 11 days, while it can finance Michael Olunga’s salary at Chinese Super league side Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng for 18 months.

Olunga earns Sh12 million a month.

Interestingly, the winner can also finance the prize money in three of the World Marathon Majors richest races — Boston (Sh71.3 million), Chicago (Sh76 million) and New York (Sh53.9 million) — and still remain with Sh20 million.

Alternatively, he can pay the World Marathon Majors jackpot for two seasons and remain with Sh21 million.

What Kenya’s Mary Keitany earned when she broke the women’s marathon record with victory in London in a new time of 2:17:01 on April 23 is just a fraction of the jackpot.

Government to register pupils, students aged 16 and below from May 29

The country has approximately 10.8 million school-going children.

The Education Ministry and the National Identification and Registration Authority will, on 29th May, start the mass registration of all students below 16 years.

The exercise will cost 25 billion shillings. According to the State Minister for Primary Education Rosemary Seninde, the exercise will weed out ghost pupils and clean the education sector.

The country has approximately 10.8 million school-going children. The details were announced at a Press conference in Kampala.

Museveni reappoints Gen Kayihura as police chief

President Museveni has reappointed Gen Kale Kayihura as Inspector General of Police (IGP) for another three-year term, placing him at the helm of the country’s law and order agency until 2020. 
Gen Kayihura’s good fortune also applies to his deputy Okoth Ochola, Commissioner General of Prisons Dr Johnson Byabashaija, and his deputy Mr James Mwanje whose contracts were expiring this month. They have been reappointed for three more years.
In a March 14 letter to the Speaker of Parliament, Ms Rebecca Kadaga which Daily Monitor has seen, Mr Museveni wrote: “The Police Authority and Prison Authority have recommended the following officers for renewal of contract,” before listing names of the quartet that now await approval by the Parliament’s Appointments Committee.
“In line with Article 213 of the Constitution, I hereby nominate the officers for renewal of contract for three years,” the letter states. 
Article 213 of the 1995 Constitution provides that the Inspector General of Police GP and his deputy shall be appointed by the President with the approval of Parliament. 
In the letter copied to Internal Affairs minister Gen Jeje Odongo, the President also indicated he was attaching the officers’ curriculum vitae for the requisite parliamentary approval. 
However, highly placed sources in the Speaker’s office intimated to Daily Monitor that Gen Kayihura, who has been on the receiving end of a barrage of criticisms over the country’s fluid security situation following widespread cases of violence, house break-ins, and robberies, was “buying more time before appearing for approval given the hostile disposition from MPs and the public.” 
Only last Thursday Gen Kayihura appeared before Parliament’s Budget Committee where MPs grilled him over the spate of killings in the country and police’s handling of the operations, days after a suspect paraded by the IGP told journalists that criminal gangs were working in connivance with some police officers. 

I Will Die In FDC – Muntu Musisha

“I cannot leave FDC to start another political party because even if I start another party, the same problems of lack of consciousness that have engulfed many political parties in Africa will still emerge in the new party. So, it’s better I work hard sensitizing Ugandans in the need to have values, honesty and integrity in leadership, ” Muntu told the dialogue.

He explained that what he is doing in FDC is to ensure that it is well-built with strong structures so that when FDC takes over power, it will be able to transform the society.

Muntu said he still believes that FDC will take power one day.

“No church, mosque, NGO will deliver us to State House but it’s a political party. Come and join us in FDC and let us redeem this country from tyranny,” he said.

Muntu said Museveni sacked him and other people from government because they disagreed on how he (Museveni) was leading the country.

“African countries still operate at the level of self compulsion – survival of the fittest as our leaders have failed – to transform societies which were traditional. This is because we’ve not yet built that critical mass,” Muntu said.

President Museveni issues new warning on corruption

Only Last month, the State Minister for Labour, Herbert Kabafunzaki was forced to step aside after being charged over soliciting a bribe

President Museveni has asked  members of the public to report acts  of  corruption as he warned  civil servants during labour day celebrations in Pallisa.

He said such  tendencies were frustrating  investors.

Only Last month, the State Minister for Labour, Herbert Kabafunzaki was forced to step aside  after being charged over soliciting a bribe.

Marcus Rashford 'deceived' ref for penalty, claims Paul Clement

Marcus Rashford "deceived" referee Neil Swarbrick to earn a penalty during Manchester United's 1-1 draw with Swansea, said Swans boss Paul Clement.

Rashford went down under a challenge from Swansea goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski just before half-time.

Wayne Rooney scored the spot-kick to give United the lead, but Gylfi Sigurdsson equalised with a free-kick.

"You want players to be honest and give their best and play hard, but not to do those kind of things," said Clement.

"Having seen it again, the player deceives the referee. It's clear.

"It's not even falling into the challenge. The fall is before the tackle so the referee was deceived."

Clement believes his team are playing with "a lot of confidence" after coming through a spell of six matches without a win to take four points from their past two games.

He felt Swansea had opportunities to win at Old Trafford, particularly a late chance that fell to Fernando Llorente.

"I've spoken to the players and told them how tremendously proud I am of them," he said.

"It's hard enough conceding a goal at that point of the game because it changes the whole complexion, and the fact the penalty was unjustly awarded as well showed that we've got character.

"We had to dig in, we had to defend.

"But it was a fantastic moment of quality from Gylfi, and after that another wonderful chance for Llorente from another set-play, so we're happy with the way we performed."

Swansea host Everton in their next match, then travel to relegated Sunderland, before hosting West Brom on the final day of the season.

"We've come off a rough spell where we didn't play well, particularly against Watford and West Ham," said Clement.

"We have turned the corner now and we're playing better."

Councillor Ssegirinya holds ‘salt’ prayers to curse Middle East employers

Kawempe North Kampala Capital City Authority councillor Muhammad Ssegirinya has today perfected the ‘bush prayers’, a tradition started by his comrade-in-comical politics Mubarak Munyagwa (FDC, Kawempe South MP).
In an early morning video, Mr Ssegirinya is seen in the company of other individuals wearing the traditional Muslim men head gear, absorbed in prayers cursing tormentors of Uganda’s overseas labourers.

Mr Munyagwa controversially made the infamous “edduwa ya Kamulali,” translated to mean the hot pepper supplication, where he burnt the choking plant, praying amid the fuming smoke.
His student Mr Ssegirinya has instead replaced pepper with salt, asking God to descend his wrath on the Arab employers whom he accuses of torturing Ugandan employees.
Recently, Mr Ssegirinya claimed to have travelled to the United Arab Emirates, where he commiserated with Ugandans he said are under-going extreme abuse and exploitation.
When Mr Munyagwa said his hot pepper sprayer last year, it earned him a shouting match with the Kibuli based Muslim establishment spokesperson Sheikh Nooh Muzaata.

Mr Ssegirinya organized his controversial prayer to coincide with the International Labour day celebrations, which he said was unnecessary to celebrate in Uganda given what he termed as the suffering endured by Uganda’s workers in Middle East.
Dr Abdulhafiz Walusimbi, a Sharia expert at the Islamic University in Uganda dismissed Mr Ssegirinya’s duwa as having no legal basis in Islam.
“Such kinds of duwa are not acceptable in Islam because the Prophet Muhammad’s way of supplication was very normal, this salt duwa has no legal basis in Islam,” he said.
He added that the method employed by the cheeky politician is “intimidating but illegal.”

The acting chairperson of Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies (UAERA), Ms Lillian Keene Mugerwa, recently told the Parliamentary Committee on Gender that up to 65,000 Ugandans are doing odd jobs in the Middle East.
This is 15,000 higher than the number that was working there one year ago.
Most of them are working as either cleaners, waiters/waitresses, drivers, tailors, construction and factory workers or security guards.
"Their annual contribution in the form of remittances is $400,000," said Ms Mugerwa.