The German government is to renovate Emin Pasha cultural site

After Government officials embarked on a Uganda safari/tour to the Emin Pasha site in Wadelai, Nebbi District, The German government has donated 10,000 Euros (about Shs36m) towards the renovation of this Uganda safaris tourist site.

The German government further has pledged support the renovation of the Emin Pasha Uganda safari historical site in Nebbi District to boost more Uganda safaris tourists to the site.

This site in Wadelai Sub-county (Emin Pasha ) has been abandoned for decades denying the district any tourism revenue due to lack of many Uganda safari travellers touring the area.

The German government has conssequently given 10,000 Euros (about Shs36 m) to kick start the renovations on the Emin Pasha site.

According to Klaus Dieter Duexmann, the German Ambassador, Emin Pasha site would be developed into a Uganda safari cultural tourism site and add to existing Uganda safaris tourist attractions.

On Tuesday while touring the site with other government officials Ambassador Duexmann said, “We are extending this support because Emin was a true citizen of Germany,”

He further added that: “We call upon the government and the community to support the site for both income generating activities and as a study centre for Ugandans and the whole world.”
Ms Rose Nkaale, the commissioner for Museums and Monuments at the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities, appealed to Ugandans to identify many other cultural sites for renovation.

Ms Nkaale said. “The communities should identify many cultural sites such that the Ministry of Tourism can turn them into tourism sites to generate income for our people. We have many sites in Uganda which are unknown due to lack of information,”

Mr. Fred Omach , the State Minister for Finance said that had it been developed some years back the place Emin Pasha would have created employment for many people,  about 60 per cent of youth in the district.

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KAYIHURA PASSED OUT OVER 100 TOURISM POLICE

 

The growing Uganda safari/Uganda safaris/Uganda tour sector in the country was further boosted with the passing out of 185 tourism police officers.

These officers were passed out at a grand function that was presided over by Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura, the Inspector General of Police.

He enrolled the second batch of these Uganda safari police officers, that underwent training in Masindi districtfor at Kabalye police training school full three weeks.

Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura said the specialised force is in charge of ensuring that the safety and confidence of all Uganda safari/Uganda tour travelers who tour Uganda or Safari Uganda on various Uganda safaris/Uganda tours.

Kayihura warned the public of the increased rate of terrorism across the region, and that all Uganda safaris/Uganda Tours or Uganda safari tourists are a high target to terrorists.

Kayihura said, that terrorists, target Uganda safari tourists for ransoms so as to fund their terrorist activities.

He urged the new Uganda safaris/Uganda tourism police to invest their skills and expertise in protecting that which belongs to the Uganda.

He further stated that over sh88b is collected as revenue from the Uganda safaris/Uganda tours/Uganda safari or Uganda tourism sector. He therefore urged the new Uganda tourism to apply the skills they had acquired for the country to reap more from the Uganda safaris trade.

These Uganda safaris/Uganda tourism officers were trained in the introduction to the tourism sector, its key players plus tourism laws, how to handle bomb awareness, aggressiveness and physical fitness, overview of terrorism,

They also underwent training in community policing, ideological development, hostage rescue procedures, target vulnerability analysis, operational planning, first aid, night tracking and political education.

Gen.Kale Kayihura up lauded Gilbert Baguma, the directorate of counter-terrorism, the executive director of the tourism board and Col. Charles Tusiime of the Uganda Wildlife Authority for all the support he has rendered towards the training of these Uganda safaris/Uganda tours Uganda tourism officers.

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The ministry Tourism in Uganda is to issue new guidelines

To further boost the Uganda safari/Uganda tours/Uganda safaris sector in Uganda, the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities has compiled a new set of rules/guidelines that will see the amendment of the 1996 Tourism Act. If adopted, these will suit the current trend as well as cater for the emerging issues in the steadily growing Uganda safaris/Uganda safari/Uganda tours sector.

The oil and gas mining activities are Top on the list of those to be regulated for of is not catered for in the old Act this is a new discovered resource in Uganda yet it directly affects the Uganda safaris/Uganda safari sector. Stake holders from the ministry of Tourism, Uganda Wild Life Authority and other wildlife conservation organisations, all want to incorporate policies/guidelines to legalise oil and gas mining without endangering the natural habitats of wild animals /creatures in the protected areas that form the basis to the Uganda safaris sector.

In spite of the fact that 80 per cent of all oil wells are located in protected areas, mining in such reserves is an illegal according to the 1996 Tourism Act.
This much needed review, therefore, wants to reach a legal binding agreement/mandate on the co-existence of Uganda`s wildlife which are the core of the Uganda Safari/Uganda safaris industry, and oil and gas mining activities but minimizing potential and actual harm to not only these wild animals but also to the surrounding people and the general environment so that those who safari to Uganda can enjoy their existence.

Mr Akankwasa Barirega, the principle wildlife officer in the Ministry of Tourism, said there was genuine need to update the current law to macth with the current changes since the enactment of the current laws.

As Mr Barirega said, “Very many things have come since then. There was discovery of oil and gas which have to be exploited,”

It is our prayer that what ever changes/updates equally protect the Uganda safari/Uganda tour or the Uganda safaris tourist attraction and fuel as well.

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UWA exhibits ‘disappeared’ from court

In a bid to protect the Uganda safari/Uganda safaris or the Uganda tourism sector,the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has arrested so many encroachers and poachers .These have subsequently been aligned in courts of law with their exhibits as proof of their crimes.

Many exhibits have gone missing within court and this has left UWA no choice but petitioned the High Court Registrar over exhibits worth Shs300 million that have gone missing in a bid to fight these enemies to the Uganda safari/Uganda safaris industry .

UWA demands that the High Court investigates how the exhibits, pangolin scales, were replaced with debris.

Mr Andrew Gunga Sseguya`s petition , the Executive Director, reads in part “My staff and the police officers who were involved in the investigation, prosecution and handing of this matter were dismayed because they were eventually given pieces of cow horns, saw dust, empty mineral water bottles in the place of exhibits they had handed over to court,”.

The letter dated January 7, reference UWA/EDO/01/13, copied to the Judiciary and the tourism ministry, the Detective Superintendent Herbert Wanyoto, attached to Katwe Police Station in Kampala  handed over the exhibits  to the then Makindye Chief Magistrate Charles Sserubuga, on August 29, 2012. Another letter signed and stamped by Detective Superintendent Wanyoto of Katwe Police, shows that the exhibits were different from what was in the court stores.

A one James Busanane was found in possession of 115 kilograms of pangolin scales. He confessed that he was exporting them to China.

Maj. John Joab Kwikirize, the UWA deputy law enforcement coordinator, said it was absurd that the pangolin scales were substituted with rubbish from court stores, which, he said, discredited the judicial system.This makes the Judicially officials enemies to the Uganda safari/Uganda safaris industry for they perhaps conived with the culprits and hide these  exhibits which could have provided enough evidence to purnish the culprits that put the Uganda safaris business at risk of dropping due to extinction of tourist attractions

The Spokes person for the Judiciary,Mr. Erias Kisawuzi said the act was a gross misconduct that needed to be investigated.He added that they would punish any official found guilty.

Mr Kisawuzi said they have mechanisms where grievances can be addressed, and advised the complainants to either petition the Judicial Service Commission, or go to their offices for a quick remedy.

I hope that the Judiciary and all concerned parties will unit together with the Concerned Uganda government and private parties dedicated and determined to protect and promote Uganda Tourism/Uganda safaris sector by conserving nature to give the Uganda safari ultimate memory to those that safari Uganda or have safaris to Uganda once in a life time or once in their life time.

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300 farmers are to be evicted from Bokora-Matheniko Game Reserve by UWA

To save the future of the Uganda safari/Uganda safaris/Uganda tours or Uganda tourism sector, the Uganda Wildlife Authority will evict about 300 farmers that have been cultivating in the Bokora-Matheniko Game Reserve in Karamoja region an area gazetted for wild animals, according to UWA.

According to the senior game warden in charge of Karamoja, Mr. James Okware, the farmers would only be allowed to graze domestic animals in this reserve.This will give room for the free growth of Uganda safari attractions-the wild life animals for those making a safari to Uganda in this region.

Mr. Okware added that preventing crop farming would maintain the ecological balance in the game reserve hencecreating a conduceive environment for wild animals that will attract Uganda safari lovers to have a safari to Uganda or safaris to Uganda.

These Uganda safari gazetted destination are found in Kotido, Moroto, and Kaabong districts mostly around the dams of Arecek, Kobebe, and Longoromit.

The Moroto District Councillor, Mr. Andrew Lochugae, has however, pleaded with UWA to allow people cultivate in the gazetted area for at least one season despite its good intention of promoting Uganda safari/Uganda safaris/Uganda tours business. He said that stopping them from accessing their gardens right away would amount to asking them to commit suicide.

The Matheniko County MP, Dr. John Baptist Looki, appealed to affected residents to remain calm since the government is aware of their problem and is committed to ensure food security in the area.

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300 farmers are to be evicted from Bokora-Matheniko Game Reserve by UWA

To save the future of the Uganda safari/Uganda safaris/Uganda tours or Uganda tourism sector, the Uganda Wildlife Authority will evict about 300 farmers that have been cultivating in the Bokora-Matheniko Game Reserve in Karamoja region an area gazetted for wild animals, according to UWA.

According to the senior game warden in charge of Karamoja, Mr. James Okware, the farmers would only be allowed to graze domestic animals in this reserve.This will give room for the free growth of Uganda safari attractions-the wild life animals for those making a safari to Uganda in this region.

Mr. Okware added that preventing crop farming would maintain the ecological balance in the game reserve hencecreating a conduceive environment for wild animals that will attract Uganda safari lovers to have a safari to Uganda or safaris to Uganda.

These Uganda safari gazetted destination are found in Kotido, Moroto, and Kaabong districts mostly around the dams of Arecek, Kobebe, and Longoromit.

The Moroto District Councillor, Mr. Andrew Lochugae, has however, pleaded with UWA to allow people cultivate in the gazetted area for at least one season despite its good intention of promoting Uganda safari/Uganda safaris/Uganda tours business. He said that stopping them from accessing their gardens right away would amount to asking them to commit suicide.

The Matheniko County MP, Dr. John Baptist Looki, appealed to affected residents to remain calm since the government is aware of their problem and is committed to ensure food security in the area.

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