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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kiryandongo, 21<sup>st</sup>/July/2014;</b> two Vision Group
journalists were arrested while on duty by the district chairperson for
Kiryandongo, Ben Moro, on 20<sup>th</sup>/July/2014. They were detained at police
before they were charged with criminal trespass and released on bond the
following day. He accused them of coming to his district without his prior
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Goeffrey Mutegeki and Muhammed
Ssendegeya -both Vision Group correspondents in Masindi and Kiryandongo
districts in Mid-Western Uganda, were arrested at Alero village by Moro when he
intercepted them on their way from interviewing the locals about a borehole
which they claim he diverted to personal use yet it was meant to serve the
community. </div>
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The journalists told Human Rights
Network for journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) that they were on their way to
interview Moro about the allegations labeled against him. “He intercepted us,
ordered us into his car which had his wife, son and two local council leaders
inside, then drove us to Diima police post where we were detained for a night.
He returned the following day and drove us to Kiryndongo police station from
where we were charged with criminal trespass and released on bond. We declined
to surrender our cameras and cellphones to them.”</div>
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“He has a borehole in his home
but we don’t know if it’s a personal property, that’s what we wanted to ask
from him. We are going to pursue the story; we can’t give up on it just like
that.” Mutegeki told HRNJ-Uganda. </div>
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Moro accused the journalists of
acting unprofessionally by coming to his district without informing the
authorities of their presence, and also accused them of being used by his
political opponent, one Kassim Owori, who he threatened to drag to court. “Me I
have no case against them as long as they become my witnesses in a case against
my brother-in-law, Kassim Owori, if they don’t they will be bundled together as
trespassers.” He told HRNJ-Uganda</div>
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However the Kiryandongo District
Police Commander, Patrick Byaruhanga, opposed the detention of the journalists,
“There was no need to detain them. How can you arrest and charge journalists
with trespass for doing their work, yet they are well-known to us and they
always cover our news? The policemen were intimidated and heeded to the orders
of the chairman to detain the journalists.</div>
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“HRNJ-Uganda condemns the actions
of the district chairperson. This amounts to abuse of office and total
violation of the fundamental media freedoms as provided for under Article 19.
The police should drop these tramped up charges against the journalists.
Politicians must desist from using their offices to shield themselves from
public scrutiny. We commend the intervention of the Daily Monitor scribe, Francis
Mugerwa and DPC Byaruhanga for having the journalists released” Said the
HRNJ-Uganda National Coordinator, Robert Ssempala</div>
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HRNJ-Ugandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15851513728812453528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445456734411407358.post-63062951483659950472013-02-28T02:27:00.002-08:002013-02-28T02:27:36.481-08:00UCC to extend phone SIM card registration deadline<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mobile phone SIM card registration will not be closed today, MPs on the House committee on ICT heard yesterday.<br />
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The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) is
today expected to announce an extension of the deadline to 180 days
although service providers had requested for an extension of 365 days.</div>
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Mr Patrick Mwesigwa, the acting UCC executive director, yesterday said the one year requested by service providers is too long.<br />
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“In view of the request and challenges, we shall
consider the extension and give a public statement tomorrow (Thursday),”
he said, adding: “There is a good cause for us to consider an
extension.”</div>
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UCC officials indicated that the regulator has
already considered extending by 90 days for registration and another 90
days for verification of the captured data, although all this will be
dependent on the outcome of today’s consultations with service providers
and the Ministry of Security.<br />
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Some MPs on the committee had felt a one year
extension would be appropriate considering the challenges in rural
areas, while others asked for an immediate termination of the process,
citing what they called the lukewarm response to such government
matters.<br />
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“We shouldn’t punish those who haven’t finalised
the process because of their economic inability even as we need a
disciplined way of responding to such programmes,” said Bukhlooli
Central MP Wafula Oguttu.</div>
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Mr Oguttu cited his constituency where one must
walk 11 km to access the nearest registration centre in Bugiri Town
after paying Shs5,000 for an LC letter coupled with other expenses of
photocopying and taking a passport photograph.<br />
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<strong>Registration</strong><br />Registering of
SIM cards, which started in March 2012, should have ended today and a
failure to allow an extension would have meant that at least 9.6 million
mobile phone users would have been affected.</div>
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Uganda currently has 16 million phone users of whom UCC says only 70 per cent have registered their SIM cards.<br />
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The process started after the passing of the
Interception of Communications Act 2010 which required compulsory
registration of all cards.</div>
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The owner of the process is the Ministry of
Security which designated UCC to oversee the implementation. Among its
objectives is to help law enforcement agencies identify mobile phone
owners and track criminals who use the phones for illegal activities.<br />
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<strong><em> for information please read :</em></strong><br />
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<span class="Fullstory_class" style="flaot: left;"><strong>By Moses Walubiri <br />
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The fate of over five million mobile phone subscribers who are yet to
register their sim-cards is not so bleak after-all, as Uganda
Communications Commission (UCC) considers extending the exercise for
about a year. <br />
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The exercise which kicked off in early March last year, following a
government directive aimed at tracking criminals who use phones for
illegal activities, has been beset by a host of challenges ranging from
subscribers’ apathy, to absence of genuine identity cards. <br />
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UCC’s acting Executive Director, Patrick Mwesigwa on Wednesday told MPs
on the Information and Communication Technology committee about planned
meetings with relevant ministries and other stakeholders ahead of a
communiqué expected to be issued today. <br />
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“We are making consultations and we shall make an announcement on March
1. UCC is considering their request because some of the challenges they
have raised are not of their own making,” Mwesigwa said in reference to
demands by telecom operators to have the exercise extended. <br />
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However, he was quick to shoot down talk that the extension could be for
another 12 months as demanded by telecom operators in an interface with
legislators on Tuesday. <br />
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“We feel a year is too long,” Mwesiga clarified. <br />
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After consultations with stakeholders, Mwesigwa said UCC was open to
grant telecom operators extension of the deadline for a period of 90
days and an additional 90 days for validation of data collected.<br />
Uganda has over 16m mobile phone subscribers, according to the latest
quarterly report from telecom operators released in December last year. <br />
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UCC clarified that only those sim-cards that have been used to transact
any business – texting, calling or mobile money transfers – in the last
90 days are deemed active by the telecom operators. <br />
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With an estimated 70% subscribers already registered, according to UCC,
close to five million people will be without communication if the
registration window shuts tomorrow as per the deadline. <br />
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However, MPs failed to agree on the need to extend the deadline with
some like Odonga Otto and Bernard Atiku advising UCC “not to bend the
rules for the undisciplined few.”<br />
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“Only criminals are wary of registering their sim-cards. UCC should go
ahead and disable all those sim-cards that are not registered, only then
will the affected users register them,” Otto said. <br />
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Mwesigwa, however, rejected calls by MPs Paula Turyahikayo and Vicent
Bagire to have only rural areas enjoy an extension of the registration
exercise, saying any decision on sim-card registration will be
implemented across the board. <br />
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Telecom operators want the deadline extended citing challenges in data
collection that have been occasioned by absence of national identity
card. <br />
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They also deem the exercise “very expensive” compared to other countries
where similar exercises have been concluded due to what they called
“stringent demands” for registration. <br />
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With UCC set to disable counterfeit handsets this year, telecom
operators have blamed the exercise for the contraction in their business
as subscribers continue to nurse misgivings about what government
intends to do with their data.<br />
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