Parliament has adopted a raft of recommendations to revive the economy currently battered by the Covid-19 pandemic, key among is implementation of a Tourism Development Levy. “The Committee proposes a levy of $10 to be charged on each ticket for every person who departs from Uganda by air transport,” said MP Mwine Mpaka, in recommendations…
Former Members of Parliament on committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) are being accused by city landlords of witch-hunt in the ongoing row involving properties of Departed Asians. According to Eagle Online news website, the new MPs are finding it hard in implementing some of the resolutions passed by the former legislators…
Members of Parliament have vehemently rejected a proposal tabled by Zombo district womanMP Esther Afoyo Chan requesting each legislator to contributes 2 million shillings towards the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines to help school-going children. The proposal did not last for a minute after being rejected by members of parliament with the Packwach woman mp Jane…
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has said that the absence of Speaker Jacob Oulanyah has not created a vacuum Among was on Wednesday afternoon responding to inquiries by a section of Members of Parliament on the whereabouts of Speaker Oulanyah. Oulanyah was in May elected Speaker of Parliament and last presided over the…
The Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Acheng has landed into trouble after the Parliamentary Committee on COVID-19 summoned her to explain circumstances under which 800 people were vaccinated with fake vaccines in Kampala. We’ve learnt that the Minister and her team are expected to meet the legislators on Friday. Abdu Katuntu, who is the leader…
A section of Members of Parliament from rural areas has called for equitable distribution of COVID-19 relief cash across the country. The government has allocated 53 billion Shillings as relief support to vulnerable people in municipalities and cities which are hit hardest by the lockdown measures, laid out by President Yoweri Museveni to stop the…
By Sam Evidence Orikunda On Sunday evening, I watched the Right Honorable Rebecca Kadaga addressing the media and declaring to run as an independent candidate. I immediately started making an audit of the NRM’s strength in the 11th parliament but the results I was getting were giving me headache and stomache at the same time.…
Omoro County legislator, Rt. Hon. Jacob Oulanyah has been elected Speaker of the 11th Parliament after garnering the required 290 votes from fellow MP. The vote about 310 constituting 60% for Oulanyah and 197, 37% votes for Kadaga ultimately means that Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has been relegated to the backbench unless President Museveni appoints her…
President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni is on a warpath in his renewed fight against corruption, warning that whoever is involved is going to ‘face my full force’. A tough-talking Museveni said corruption was failing the country’s development agenda and asked the newly elected Members of Parliament to support the fight against corruption over the next…
Persons involved in human sacrifice will face the death penalty if a new law aimed at preventing the offence is passed by Parliament. The Prevention and Prohibition of Human sacrifice Bill, 2020 proposes that persons who mutilate or cause the death of another person for the purpose of performing or furthering a ritual commits an…
