Members of parliament want the Ministry of Energy to address the recurring countrywide power surges, which they said has affected several businesses. This was raised as a matter of national importance by Soroti East Division Member of Parliament, Hon. Herbert Ariko, during plenary sitting on 07 September 2023. Ariko said that the electricity distributing company,…
Deputy Chief Justice Richard Buteera has stated that the judiciary is committed to a zero-tolerance policy for corruption, and there is no place for it within the judiciary. This remark was made while closing a nine-day induction training for the newly recruited chief magistrates at Collin Hotel in Mukono. According to Justice Buteera, corruption tendencies…
Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) has appealed to government and the Ministry of Energy to revamp the rural electrification program to make electricity cheaper and affordable to Ugandans as a source of energy and power. According to Sharon Ayat Arach the UPC Spokesperson, cheaper and affordable power reduces the destruction of both trees and forests for…
The State House Anti-Corruption Unit and Internal Security Organisation(ISO) have commenced arrests of Ministry of Trade Industries and Cooperatives officials who connived with law firms to steal billions of moneys meant to compensate cooperatives for the losses incurred during the liberation war and insurgencies. The move to compensate the cooperatives was decided upon by cabinet…
Police at Wandegeya Station is holding five Makerere university students after being found in possession of Narcotic substances. Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga identified the suspects as George Oroma, 26, doing quantitative economics; Julius Peter Joke, 25, and Emmy Ekyana, 26, a law student ,others are Fred Okot, who is doing business administration at Makerere University…
The Deputy Director General of the Internal Security Organization (ISO) Lt. Col. Emmy Katabazi has assured Ugandans in the Diaspora of their investments including land bought back home in Uganda. Katabazi gave the assurance while addressing delegates attending the annual Uganda North American Association (UNAA) convention in Dallas, USA. This followed concerns raised at the…
The Joint Police Team of CT, K9, CI and Territorial Police, that was deployed at Miracle Centre, intercepted a terrorist who had disguised as a churchgoer, and recovered an IED, at the main entrance of the Church, in Kayanja Triangle Zone, Lubaga Parish in Kampala District.. Police spokesperson SCP Fred Enanga revealed that immediately after…
There was a sigh of relief among the bus owners and travelers plying on Kampala-Masaka-Mbarara high way after Uganda National Roads Authority UNRA Executive Director, Allen Kagina ordered for the reopening of the Katonga Bridge on Masaka Road for buses usage. “Reference is made to deflection monitoring of the old existing bridge carried out on…
The spokesperson of the Directorate of Traffic and Road Safety, Michael Kananura, while addressing a press conference at Naguru, Kampala, on September 4, 2023, said that 391 drivers were arrested in the Fika Salama extra operation for the period between August 27, to September 2, 2023. “We have so far arrested 391 drivers in the…
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Extraordinary National Delegates Conference convened by party chairman Wasswa Birigwa is destined to flop after Secretary General Nathan Nandala Mafabi declined Birigwa’s request for delegates conference funds on grounds that he failed to inform the key party leaders. John Kikonyogo, the party deputy spokesperson, added that Birigwa was expected…
