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Parliament has ordered for immediate arrest and prosecution of city businessman, Brian Kirumira also known as Brian White on charges of trafficking in persons. The directive follows an inquiry by Parliament’s Human Rights Committee, whose findings indicate that Kirumira sexually harassed a number of girls, physically tortured them and unlawfully confined them in his home.…
Parliament has rejected a report on the status of land on the former Nakawa-Naguru housing estate. The report by the Committee on Physical Infrastructure found that the Uganda Lands Commission (ULC) has allocated over 50 acres of land to private persons as opposed to a sole investor to construct an ultra-modern satellite town. While presenting…
Parliament has passed the Sexual Offences Bill, 2019 providing for criminalisation of a range of sexual offenses that have not been provided for in the existing law. Whereas the Penal Code Act, Cap. 120 provides for a number of sexual offences, the provisions are outdated and do not reflect the evolving trends in social attitudes,…
Ugandan traders dealing in exportation of unprocessed tobacco leaf will now be required to pay a tax of about shs3,000 per kilogramme order to boost the currently undervalued business. This tax comes with the passing of the Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill, 2021 on Monday, 03 May 2021. The Vice Chairperson of Parliament’s Committee on Finance,…
Members of Parliament will have opportunity to live differently after expiry of their term of office following training on life outside Parliament. The Rebecca Kadaga Institute of Parliamentary Studies organized a two day seminar where outgoing MPs of the 10th Parliament received tips ranging from the financial, social and management sectors. Speaker of Parliament Rebecca…
President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has said that majority of the people in the Central Region are Banyarwanda masquerading as Baganda out of ignorance. Museveni made revelation during Labour Day celebrations at State House Entebbe on Saturday May 1. The elect president added that Banyarwanda who had come into the country to do casual labour…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has urged political leaders to join him in the battle against corruption, which he says embarrasses the government since it cripples service delivery. Museveni, who was reacting to a paper on corruption presented by Dr Ramadan Ggoobi to NRM MPs Elect in Kyankwanzi said that it is the role of leaders…
Member of Parliament for East Africa legislative Assembly and National Resistance Movement Director of Mobilization, Hon. Mathias Kasamba has kicked the bucket. Kasamba’s death was officially confirmed by National Resistance Movemen Hon Kasule Lumumba.Hon Mathias died on Tuesday evening 27,2021 from Nakasero Hospital where he had been receiving specialized treatment a few days ago. “The…
There is alot of fear and anxiety in public after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said that the government will implement the Bamugemereire land commission Report once it is well studied and approved by the next Cabinet. Recently,Gen Museveni who was speaking to NRM MPs- Elect in Kyankwanzi shortly after Justice Bamugemereire’s presentation into land matters,…
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has fully endorsed Kira Municipality legislator Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda in the Speakership race for the 11th Parliament. The announcement was made by the Party Chairman Amb. Waswa Birigwa. He noted that the decision was reached through the party’s top organs, the working committee, the Parliamentary caucus and the National…
