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Rwanda finally elects members to East African Legislative Assembly

Kigali

Daily Monitor has reported that Rwanda’s joint parliamentary session has elected nine legislators who will represent it at the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA).

Five of the elected members of Parliament are women, something that gives Rwanda a nod for being an EAC member state with the highest number of women representation at the EALA.

The election that was carried out on Monday in a joint session of 92 senators and deputies, saw two former cabinet ministers return to public sphere with assignments at the regional assembly.

These include; former Minister of Lands and Environment, Patricia Hajabakiga and Valerie Nyirahabineza the former Minister in the office of the Prime Minister in charge of Gender and Family promotion. Ms. Nyirahabineza was elected on the Rwanda National Women Council ticket.

Rwanda’s EALA legislators were elected from different political party groupings which included the National Women Council, the National Federation for the Disabled and the National Youth Council.

Four candidates were selected from a coalition of political parties.

Uganda-Kampala doctor gang-raped

Wednesday, 14th May, 2008

The Newvion reports that A woman doctor was recently robbed and gang-raped by thugs who dragged her out of her house in the Kampala suburb of Nansana, the Police said.

In a similar incident, two girls aged 16 and 18 were raped in the same suburb after robbers broke into their house.
The Police yesterday paraded 11 men, suspected to be behind the recent wave of crime.

Among them was Hassan Sebirumbi, whom the Police believe to be the leader of the gang. “What is sickening is that these people would rape their victims after carrying out the robberies and they were known to their communities,” said Edward Ochom, the Police chief of Kampala Extra, at Kawempe Police station.

He noted that the robbers would wear dark-blue raincoats, similar to the ones issued to the Police, to disguise themselves as Police officers.
Ochom described the arrest of Sebirumbi and his accomplices as a “tremendous achievement”.

Sebirumbi, the leader of the gang, had been ‘very cooperative’ and had confessed that he was a habitual robber, Ochom said.

He identified the other suspects as Kayemba Kiwanuka, Kintu Semakula, Hosea Kasambu, Edward Seruwoza, Kenneth Gumisiriza and Geoffrey Makanga, said to be a dealer in stolen items. Among them was a woman, Margaret Nabuma, Nyanzi Umar, Baker Kasambya and a key-cutter, identified only as Drake.

The 11 were among the 78 people arrested during operations conducted by the Police last week. Two guns, two pistols, pangas, an assortment of master keys and a syringe-like pump used for spraying chloroform were recovered.

The operations followed an outcry from the public that parts of Kisaasi, Ntinda, Kulambiro and Naalya were being terrorised by robbers, he explained.
Ochom vowed to continue with the campaign to rid the city of criminals.
He appealed to the public to report any suspicious characters.

In other areas, particularly around the Clock Tower, 100 suspected petty criminals, most of them pick-pockets, were netted and charged, he added