Accept defeat, Zambia president tells Uganda's opposition

Entebbe.

Zambian president Edgar Chagwa Lungu has asked Ugandan’s opposition members to concede defeat and recognise Mr Yoweri Museveni as the duly elected president following the highly contested February 18 elections.

Mr Museveni, 71, won 60.75 per cent of the vote while his closest challenger Dr Kizza Besigye took 35 per cent, according to the Electoral Commission records. However Dr Besigye who has challenged President Museveni previously rejected the results, asking for an independent audit.

However, after landing at Entebbe International Airport this afternoon, Mr Lungu said the opposition must accept the will of the majority of Ugandans.

“Let the opposition parties accept the will of the people and accept the win of president Museveni because he went through elections and won,” said Mr Lungu.

The 59-year-old Zambian leader who has been president since January 2015, and is in the country to commemorate the swearing-in of President Museveni scheduled for tomorrow, seemed to take a swipe at Dr Kizza Besigye who came second in the February 18 presidential elections.

"If you have a football club, you can't use only one striker who doesn't score. My advice to them [opposition] is to accept the win and also change the striker because he has failed to score for all these years he has been on the football ground," said Mr Lungu.

Dr Besigye has challenged president Museveni for the country’s top job four times although he has never accepted defeat.

Mr Lungu also advised Ugandans to love their president and attend his ceremony as he swears in for his 5th term at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds tomorrow.

Mr Museveni who has been at the helm for 30 years will take oath to extend his rule to 35 years.

Mr Lungu joins Tanzania president John Pombe Magufuli and other foreign dignitaries who are in Uganda for the same function.

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Transport through Muhoroni-Londiani disrupted after road caves in

A section of Londiani-Muhoroni road which was swept away by flood waters.

Commuters using Londiani-Muhoroni were forced to seek alternative routes after the road linking the two towns was washed away by flood waters.
Heavy rains pounding Kisumu county and its environs has rendered the highway impassable after a gulley five metres wide cut through the road on Wednesday.
The section, an alternative for motorists who do not wish to pass through Kericho while traveling to Kisumu, has been closed indefinitely.
Muhoroni OCPD Muthuri Mwongera, in an assessment of the damage caused after river Nyando burst its banks, asked drivers to avoid the route.
He urged them to use alternative routes as it won't it possible for them to make it to either side of the road built barely two years ago.
"The road will only be used once it has been repaired," Mwongera said.
"Before we fix the road, motorists will have to use the longer route from Kisumu to Kericho and vice versa," he said.
A huge traffic snarl up formed on both sides of the damaged section after the bridge collapsed.
Assistant Inspector General of Police Joseph Keitany said that police officers have been deployed at the scene to ensure that no person attempts to cross the road.
"We are also going to erect signs around that area to ensure that people can see that the road has been closed indefinitely," Keitany said.
No injuries were reported in the incident. The disconnection adds to the misery the residents of Nyando belt who have suffered serious effects of the long rains as a result of flooding.

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Tobiko orders review of Eurobond file cleared by EACC

Director of Public Prosecution.

Director of Public Prosecution Keriako Tobiko will review the Eurobond case after the anti-graft agency and Auditor General reported that no money was lost in the alleged scam.
“The file shall be independently reviewed by my office and a decision thereon made shortly based on the facts, evidence and the law" Tobiko said in a statement to the media on Wednesday.
Earlier this year EACC cleared the National Treasury‘s chiefs and asked the Director of Public Prosecution to order a thorough forensic audit on how the Eurobond billions were spent.
The commission had interviewed more than 30 government officials who were to help shed light on claims made by the Opposition that proceeds from the bond were kept in secret offshore accounts and used without the authority of the Controller of Budget as required by law.
EACC further also recommended that the matter be referred to the office of the Auditor-General as it was the independent body with the mandate to audit accounts under Article 229 of the Constitution.
The Auditor General was to carry out a special audit on development projects that were implemented by ministries, departments and agencies in the financial years 2013/14 and 2014/15 in order to ascertain the utilization of the funds and whether there was value for money.
The Opposition has maintained that at least Sh140 billion was missing.
It wants to know how the money was used, which infrastructural projects it funded as claimed by Treasury CS Henry Rotich, and if the projects were of economic value to Kenyans.

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