The Parliamentary Commissioner, Hon. Esther Afoyochan has on behalf of the Speaker, Anita Among received bi-annual reports of the Inspectorate of Government (IG). The reports cover the period, January-June 2022, July-December 2022 and January-June 2023. This is in fulfillment of Article 231 (1) of the Constitution which mandates the IGG to submit to Parliament at…
President Museveni has questioned officials at the Health Ministry over delays in finalizing the signing of a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an Austrian firm for the construction of a specialized Teaching Hospital at Gulu University. Early last year, a team from VAMED Engineering Gmbh from Austria during a meeting with President Museveni proposed to…
The National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) and Police have started operations against money lenders confiscating National Identify Cards. Osborn Mushabe, the NIRA spokesperson said many money lenders have continued to defy warnings and have continued taking National IDs as security for loans. Mushabe said a decision to raid money lending shops has been taken after…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yesterday received a Special Envoy from the Republic of Somaliland, Dr. Jama Musse Jama at State House-Entebbe. During the engagement, President Museveni agreed to be the unification facilitator between Somaliland and Somalia. Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been asked to investigate one of its former employees over allegations of facilitating and funding Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group. Brigid Inder, who was a Special Gender Advisor to former ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bansouda (2012-2016) is accused of personally and through…
A group of Mairungi/Khat growers in Tooro sub-region, under their umbrella body Kabarole Mairungi Growers Association, have petitioned President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, beseeching him not to pass the Narcotic Drugs And Psychotropic Substances Bill (2023) as it is, arguing that is aimed at cutting off their main source of income and livelihood. The members of…
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has told investors in the United Kingdom that investing in Uganda is a sure deal to the success of their projects because of the prevailing excellent investment environment in the country. He said the investors are guaranteed of security and a huge return on the investment, citing non-tax…
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…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has commissioned a factory manufacturing concrete Railway Sleepers to be used on the ongoing construction project of the railway lines. The concrete railway sleepers will be used for the construction of the SGR and MGR. While inspecting the factory at Kawolo-Lugazi, the president applauded Imathia Construction and the Uganda Railways Corporation…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni,who doubles as the Commander In Chief of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has advised the retiring senior army officers to invest their retirement package wisely. “This retirement does not regard it as becoming redundant now, no, not at all. This is like a mutation; from one form of service to…
