Parliament’s finance committee has rejected the 200,000 Shillings license on cars and 50,000 Shillings for motorbikes. thecapitaltimes.co.ug has learnt. Last week, the minister of Finance, Matia Kasaija tabled tax measures seeking to make amendments to a number of bills including, Excise Duty Act, External Trade Act, Fish Act, Income Tax Act, Mining Act, Stamp Duty…
The Auditor General has revealed that there was financial indiscipline in the utilisation of shs311 billion disbursed to Ministries, Departments, Agencies (MDAs) and districts for Covid-19 interventions. Section 25(1) of the Public Finance Management Act provides that government may approve a supplementary budget up to 3 per cent of appropriated budget but must seek retrospective…
Since taking office as Deputy Speaker of Parliament way back in 2001 (20 years ago in May 2021), Rt. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has created one of the most secretive but powerful political hegemony within the NRM environs in modern Uganda’s Political history. It’s hard to tell how much the legendary Woman Member of Parliament…
The Uganda Internal Affairs Minister Gen. Jeje Odongo has tabled before parliament a list of names of at least 177 missing Ugandans who he said are in detention following their arrest during and after January 14, 2021 elections. Gen. Odongo tabled the list with names identifying the person, the date, the place, the reason for…
Michael Maranga Mawanda the Igara East legislator has presented Constitutional Amendments Bill 2020 on the leadership composition at the Bank of Uganda (BoU). Mawanda’s bill comes after reports from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) and the special audit report of the Auditor General on the…
Ugandans on Thursday January 14th 2021 went into election to choose the president and parliamentarians. Here is a full list of the 529 Members of the 11th Parliament….
Uganda’s power supplier Umeme is battling a multibillion scandal involving the procurement of counterfeit Yaka, which has seen many Ugandans risk their lives to fix the Yaka meters whenever they blackout. As a result of the endless complaints pouring in at Umeme offices, we have learnt that the power distributor has since started sending out…
Panic has engulfed the custodian board after it has emerged that Shs 15 billion was mysteriously withdrawn from the Departed Asians Property Custodian board accounts by the unknown persons. The development came after Members of Parliament on the committee Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) discovered the missing monies and quizzed Ministry of Finance…
A joint team comprising members from the finance and gender committees in parliament has rejected proposed direct lending by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to the government. The committee members say that this is intended to avoid abuse of member’s funds and conflict of interest. This is according to the main committee report on…
Police have said they are going to check the mental status of the man who was arrested with a human head at parliament. According to the CID spokesperson, Charles Twine Mansio, as part of their investigations, detectives are going to take Joseph Nuwashaba, 22 for mental check up to determine his mental status. Twine added that…
