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MPs Demand For Action Against Ex BoU Officials Implicated In The Fraudulent Sale Of Seven Defunct Banks

MPs have continued to demand for the action against Bank of Uganda (BoU) officials who were implicated in the sale and acquisition of seven defunct banks. In 2018, MPs on parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) made the recommendation in their report following a recent probe of BoU on the closure…

Here Is Why Government Should Punish Ex BoU Officials Over Irregular Closure of Crane Bank, Other Six Commercial Banks

The government of Uganda has not yet taken punitive action against Bank of Uganda (BoU) officials for the closure of seven commercial banks three years after the recommendation was made by Parliament. In 2019, Parliament’s Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE recommended that senior BoU officials be individually held responsible for the…

How Closure Of Commercial Banks Exposed Rot & Sealed Kasekende’s Chances Of Succeeding Mutebile

Dr Louis Kasekende, the former Bank of Uganda (BoU) deputy governor, has no chance of bouncing back to that institution as Governor, following the death of Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile. Not long ago Kasekende was considered an automatic heir to late Mutebile as Governor. Having read our exclusive article on the potential replacements for Mutebile, some…