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Ms.Kadaga with other MPs in Kabarole Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has instructed Parliament’s Committee on Health to process and present elderly medical insurance for consideration during this current session, a Bill on national medical insurance. Government, said Kadaga, has been asked by Parliament to present such legislation for now fifteen years, to no avail, prompting the…
min.Amongi Following the passing of this Landlord/Tenant bill by Parliament on 26th June 2019, the public have continued to be given inaccurate and misleading information on some provisions of this bill. The Ministry wishes to make clarification on a number of provisions for clarity and better understanding by the stakeholders and the general public. Issue…
SFC Band members matching Over 40 soldiers of the Special Forces Command, Directorate of Band, were passed out on Jul 5, 2019 after one year of quality training on band/music. The Deputy Commander Special Forces Command, Col. Peter Candia, who represented the Commander SFC, Maj Gen. James Birungyi, presided over the function which was held…
Members of Parliament’s Local Government Accounts Committee have asked Chief Administrative Officers to penalize staff who have failed to properly supervise the Youth Livelihood Programme in Eastern Uganda. The Committee was in Soroti last week where local government accounting officers from the districts of Kapelebyong, Katakwi, Moroto, Amuria, Serere, Sironko, Kween and Bukwo converged to…
The Leader of Opposition (LOP) in Parliament, Hon. Aol Betty Ocan, has asked government to provide more funding to cater for the needs of refugees hosted in Uganda together with Nationals in the host communities. Ocan, who together with selected Opposition MPs toured refugee settlements and hosting communities, said that increased government funding coupled with…
Presidents M7 and Maada at State house Entebbe President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has met and bid farewell to President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio who is on a 3-day visit to Uganda at the invitation of the hosting president. This visit further strengthened the warm and cordial relations existing between…
E Members of the East African Youth Leaders have requested the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, to champion the ratification, domestication and implementation of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG). Meeting members of the Uganda Chapter in his boardroom on Wednesday, 26 June, 2019, Oulanyah guided the youth leaders…
Ms Kadaga The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has tasked the foreign affairs ministers of Africa take interest in the challenges faced by their people in securing visas to other countries with an aim of easing restrictions. Kadaga notes that the time lag of receiving a visa to other countries, most times of which…
Florence Kayitesi Ever since Justine Rurinda left Uganda due to torture and humiliation by Ugandan state agencies for coming up to support the rights of sexual minorities to be permitted to also live in communities freely like any other nationals. Her family on several occasions has been attacked by security agencies who treat homosexual people…
Mr.Oulanyah at church fundraising Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah has preached peace to the people of Northern Uganda saying that the region currently is with a perfect opportunity to now accelerate development, progress. The two important lessons to learn from the region’s dark episodes, he said, are a resolve never to allow any situation that could…