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Members of Parliament have asked the Executive to desist from arbitrarily cutting the budgets meant for Parliament and the Judiciary saying it is a violation of the principle of separation of powers. In the second quarter of the current financial year, Parliament and the Ministry of Finance locked horns over budgets meant to facilitate committees…
The back-to-back blasts that have claimed two lives have pushed Members of Parliament to question the thoroughness of the state’s intelligence services, with many calling for the agencies to become more effective. A bomb blast went off in Komamboga in Kawempe Division, killing a one, Emilly Nyinaneza and injuring scores. Before the country could come…
South Africa’s Pietermaritzburg high court on Tuesday dismissed former president Jacob Zuma’s petition seeking to remove state prosecutor Billy Downer from his corruption trial. This judgment means that his corruption trial would begin on April 11, next year at the same court. Zuma’s legal team filed a special application to have Downer removed from prosecuting…
The nation has been undergoing a state of anger and confusion for the past three days over the recent bomb explosions that have claimed the lives of at least 2 Ugandans. One bomb went off on Saturday 23rd in Komamboga and another on Monday 25th on a bus. One of the bombs that went off…
Rebecca Kadaga, Uganda’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs has protested the way the recruitment of staff has been going on at the East African Community Secretariat. Following the 42nd Extraordinary Meeting of the East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers held in May 2021 where several vacant positions in the…
The committee on trade, tourism and industry has tasked the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) to account for the 360 million shillings spent during the Dubai 2020 Expo. UTB led by its executive director Lilly Ajarova today appeared before the committee which is probing into concerns arising from Uganda’s participation in the Dubai Expo in the…
A secret plot by the National Unity Platform leadership ‘NUP’ and activists to frustrate the current bail amendment proposal by government has leaked. A security source has revealed how NUP is now clandestinely planning to harass and attack Members of Parliament in a bid to threaten not to back the proposal. “We have established how…
Parliament has granted Workers MP, Hon Margret Rwabushaija, leave of the House to introduce a Private Member’s Bill entitled, “The Markets Bill, 2021” that seeks harmonise the running of markets across the country. The Bill seeks to repeal and replace The 1942 Markets Act, CAP. 94 in order to provide for comprehensive legal and economic…
The National Unity Platform, the biggest opposition political party has distanced itself from the Saturday bombings at Komamboga in Kawempe division, that killed at least one person and injured three others. Speaking today at the party headquarters in Kamwokya, David Lewis Rubongoya, the party Secretary General said their organization is a peaceful one that cannot…
