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Members of Parliament (MPs) have asked government to intervene in the skyrocketing fuel prices, saying businesses are starting to crumble due to the high transport costs. The MPs who addressed journalists on Monday, 29 November 2021 in the Members’ Lounge at Parliament say that whereas fuel prices have been increasing for months, government has remained…
Ronald Kibuule, the former State Minister for Water and Environment, has come under the spotlight over allegations that he is trying to use his influence to grab government property. Sources reveal that currently, Kibuule is involved in a bitter standoff with officials at the Ministry, over the ownership of the vehicle that he was using…
Security has busted plans by the National Unity Platform-NUP to disrupt the forthcoming LCV chairperson by-election in Kayunga district. The seat was declared vacant by the electoral commission following the death of the former LCV boss, Muhammad Ffefeka Sserubugo who was found hanging on a jackfruit tree hardly few months after being elected into office.…
The Opposition in Parliament has called for increased funding to the National Consultative Forum in a bid to empower it in fast-tracking its statutory mandate under the Political Parties Organizations Act. The Opposition says enhanced funding will improve operations of the Forum and build capacities of Uganda’s political parties. This recommendation is contained in a…
Members of Parliament are investigating circumstances under which the Uganda Lands Commission (ULC) allocated Uganda Railways Land in Nsambya to investors in excess of what was to be given. The Committee on Commissions Statutory Authority and State Enterprise (COSASE) chaired by Hon. Joel Ssenyonyi is probing the sale and giveaway of several estates belonging to…
The venue for the Masaka Diocesan day at Kitovu Sports Arena was a scene of running battles between police and supporters of the National Unity Platform-NUP who were gathering to catch a glimpse of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. Kyagulanyi and Members of Parliament from the Masaka sub-region attended the celebration on Sunday, in a mass celebrated…
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) condemns the killing of suspects by Police or any other security agency. According FDC spokesperson Ibrahim Semujju revealed that it has become very common to kill suspects who moreover are handcuffed. The standard claim by Police is that the suspects were confronting their personnel or were attempting to flee.…
Yesterday marked a year since Ugandan security forces brutally clamped down on people protesting the arrest of opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi wine, killing 54 people, and injuring scores more. Just before noon on November 18, 2020, two months ahead of Uganda’s general elections, security forces arrested Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, as…
Resident City Commissioners have blamed the increasing corruption on the unwillingness by the chief administrative officers to fight against the vice. According to the RDCs, their efforts to fight the vice have been frustrated by the CAOs who have failed to implement recommendations given by various offices on technocrats who have been implicated in corruption…
The Parliament of Uganda has passed a supplementary budget of 3.81 trillion Shillings, mostly for stimulating the economy hit by COVID-19 and security-related interventions. The Capital Times has learnt that Of this, at least 1.3 trillion Shillings was already spent within the 3 per cent legal limit which the government can spend and seek approval…
