Uganda’s youngest award winning published author

Youngest awarded published author

At only 11 years of age, Bonita Treasure Murungi Arinaitwe has written two books approved by the National Curriculum Development Centre as readers for upper primary in Uganda.
Her books,   Friends (2014) and The Brave Prince Michael (2015) both fiction were published by Palm Publications in Kampala.
Murungi started writing at the age of four.
She aspires to start a writers club in her school to help other pupils write their own books.  She plans to launch a third book, The Life of the Forest later this year. The East African reports.

CHANGE OF LIFESTYLE IN CAMPUS

By Dennis Rugiri

Being a first year is always preceded by a variety of cultures and lifestyles. In Moi University what defines and redefines a 1st year is the dressing code and manner of articulation. Most of us always tend to run away from our normal way of life and on the process embrace and emulate what dressing code we have found in campus.
 
 Indeed it is said that if you go to Rome do what the Romans are doing. Yes, I don't oppose this but it is better to change with changes and this is an acceptable phenomena. However, majority of us tend to dig deep into the culture to a point where we find ourselves way out of the cultures and lifestyles in campus and in the process majority of students end up loosing their identity.

 

MZUNGU WHO STOLE SH 11 MILLION BEANS TO COOL PORRIDGE AT KAMITI FOR ONE YEAR.

By Dennis Rugiri 

An Irish man has been sentenced to one year in jail or pay a fine of Sh100,000 for fraudulently obtaining Sh11 million from a Nairobi businessman.

 Byrne Cathal aka James Elgin, 49, pleaded guilty to the charges which he committed in 2012.

 Elgin obtained 100 bags of maize and 800 bags of beans valued at Sh11,470,000 from Mohammed Hussein, but failed to pay for the goods.

 The court heard that Hussein was introduced to Elgin by a friend, a Mr Ayumba, who was then deputy secretary in the Ministry of Special Programmes.

Ayumba claimed to know people working for a company, whom together with others, asked the complainant to supply the goods on their behalf since they were unable to supply the large consignment.

Elgin who allegedly worked for Proque Company as a procurement officer received the goods.

The complainant, through his company, supplied the goods on May 18, 2012, but was never paid.

He would later learn that no such company existed, after the suspects started avoiding him.

 Police would later visit the godown where the goods were delivered and found that the goods had already been moved from the warehouse.

Elgin pleaded with the court for a lenient sentence, saying he was remorseful and accepted that he was on the wrong.

Source (Standard Digital)