Sexually abused and underpaid women in the local mining community working in Kosiroi quarry which  belongs to Tororo Cement Limited (TCL) have called for government intervention.

While attending a community sensitisation meeting organised by village elders and Ireland project yesterday in Kosiroi, Moroto, the angry women expressed their grief, saying that men employed by TCL to load mables onto the trucks have always raped them in addition to the company giving them peanuts as payment for their quarried stones.

Yesterday drama ensued in Kasangati Chief Magistrate's court after one witness to pin Besigye in disobeying lawful orders admitted that he was telling lies.

While responding to questions during a cross-examination by Ernest Kalibala (EK) and Fredrick Mpanga (FM), the lawyers of FDC's Dr Kizza Besigye, Brian Omwito, 33, a police constable who works with the evidence-gathering unit, tesfied that it's true his accounts of the whole incident don't add up.