STRUGGLE/ SPEAK UP AND THRIVE OR KEEP SILENT AND PERISH.

STRUGGLE/ SPEAK UP AND THRIVE OR KEEP SILENT AND PERISH.

President Kizza Besigye delivers the 2nd State of the People Address (SOPA) focusing on economic recovery, regeneration of people’s welfare to survive and rehabilitation of the health sector to meet people’s health needs.

Besigye who says Uganda is facing serious political and economic challenges resulting from political mismanagement, states that people are anxious and distressed, and the economy is troubled and yet the political elites and policy makers are either profiteering from the challenges or clueless on how to resolve national problems.

Besigye says following outbreak of Coronavirus, the Museveni regime has demonstrated a high appetite to accumulate money to achieve Museveni’s individual political endeavors and plans instead of drafting plans and policies that would support the entire population.

Besigye calls for a national conversation to demand for reappropriation of resources that could see 19.7trillion invested in providing stimulus package for SMEs in distress, revive the healthcare sector and improve people’s lives and welfare.

Besigye states that Ugandans must decided between perishing and surviving, indicating that silence or struggle to demand for effective use of public funds will make the difference.

The State of the People took place at State House Kasangati garden in presence of selected People’s Government officials in line with WHO guidelines of social distancing.

One Uganda One People

DR. KIZZA BESIGYE

19 Nigerians arrested in UAE for robbing ATM

A 19-man gang of Nigerians who specialize in robbing ATMs in the United Arab Emirate has been busted with the suspects arrested by the police.

Some of the Nigerian ATM robbers
(Khaleej Times)

19 Nigerians who specialize in robbing Automated Teller Machines (ATM) in the United States Emirate, have been arrested by the police after months of painstaking monitoring of their activities.

The Sharjah Police, in a statement, said that the 19 Nigerian targeted ATM vehicles and at the time they were arrested, they had stolen Dh1.8 million, (about N 154 million).

The statement added that the suspects were arrested from several apartments occupied by 30 to 40 Nigerians.

According to Khaleej Times, the Nigerian robbers had come to the country on visit visas specifically to commit the robberies and in the process of their crime spree, they assaulted security guards accompanying the vehicles to carry out the robberies.

Addressing a press conference, the Director of Police Operations Department, Colonel Rashid bin Bayat, said the Nigerian criminals had committed four daring and violent robberies targeting money transportation vehicles that were delivering cash to ATMs.

At the conference, Col. Bayat said:

“The first robbery was committed at the ATM of the Dubai Commercial Bank on King Abdul Aziz Road, where the robbers assaulted security guards and fled with Dh340,000.

After two days, the gang struck again at an ATM near Saferr Mall in Al Nahda area, where they fled with Dh700,000.

They also attacked a cash transportation vehicle in Al Muweilah area, making off with Dh710,000. The fourth attack at an ATM on Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road was foiled by the police.”

According to the police, the suspects had transferred a part of the robbed money to Nigeria while efforts are being made to recover the rest of the loot and return them to their owners.

The suspects, the police added, were identified and arrested based on CCTV footages obtained from the banks and money exchange offices, said the police.