Police in Masindi District have released suspects in custody on police bond after one of the officers tested positive of coronavirus. Julius Hakiza the Albertine Police mouthpiece has confirmed that all suspects made statements before they left and were given police bond requiring them to report to the station on various days as indicated on…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is expected ease in a phased manner the lockdown which started on April 1 aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in Uganda. This follows a report presented by a Cabinet committe and the security Minister Gen. Elly Tumwine after conducting an abrupt tour in some slums of Kampala…
Members of the Budget Committee of Parliament have rejected a fresh government supplementary request of 15.8 billion Shillings. The Committee received the request on Thursday from Gabriel Ajedra, the Minister of State of Finance in charge of General Duties. According to Ajedra, part of the money about 10 billion Shillings is to facilitate the Uganda…
Members of Parliament (MPs) who have taken the sh20 million given to them as part of the COVID-19 supplementary expenditures might be in trouble. In his update address on the Coronavirus pandemic on April 28, President Yoweri Museveni condemned MPs for seeking to divert Ugandans from the current war. “I’m very thankful with Ugandans they…
By the Capital Times Investigative Unit As promised in the First part of the Energy Mafia Series, In part 2, we bring you the background to the larceny that has brought darkness to our country for the past few years and how they have failed the President to meet his targets in the energy sector despite…
A local company named Kampala Salt will start making salt when its manufacturing plant being developed in Lugazi Town, Buikwe District is completed, Evelyn Anite, the State Minister of Finance for Investment and Privatization, said in a statement. The minister said the initiative will help “boost local production” as well as “significantly” reduce the import…
By the Capital Times Investigative Unit Two key officials of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) under the Ministry of Energy have deceitfully kept themselves in their offices despite being found guilty of causing serious financial losses to the Agency over the past several years. An investigation report by the Office of the Inspectorate of Government…
High Court has ordered Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF), Police and Attorney General to produce City Lawyer and activist Kakwenza Rukira in court on April 27, 2020, at 11 am without fail. Kakwenza was reportedly arrested from his home in Iganga on Tuesday, April 14, by security agents, citing cyber…
The government of Uganda has defied parliament’s directive to blocking the distribution of relief food to people around Kampala and Wakiso districts. In the Thursday Parliamentary sitting, both Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and lawmakers raised issue that there was a need for government to consider all parts of the country. Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda’s attempts to…
Media fraternity have proposed ways through which the fourth estate can keep operational as Uganda comes to terms with the global Covid19 pandemic. In relation, a state rests on four pillars for it to armpit several anniversaries; Executive,Judiciary, Legislature and the Fourth Estate-Media. However, due to COVID-19, the media, as all other businesses, will be…
