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Budget Committee Strikes! Rejects Shs15.8 Billion Supplementary Expenditure Request

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,

April 30, 2020

Business·News·Politics

Fuel Taxes Go Up ,Alcohol Relaxed As MPs Pass Excise Duty Bill For 2020/21 Budget

Parliament has passed the Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2020 with amendments which will see an increase in the taxes levied on petrol and diesel effective 01 July 2020. The tax on petrol has been increased from Shs1,200 per litre to Shs 1,350

April 24, 2020

Health·News·Politics

Kadaga: The Maria Antoinette Of Uganda In The 10th Parliament Exposed By Coronavirus

By Mbabazi Hanning Gonzaga There is no better replay of the “Affair of the Diamond Necklace” as it happened under the French Bourbon Monarchy than what has transpired in the halls of the Ugandan parliament these last two weeks. During the reign

April 16, 2020

Health·News·Politics

Gov’t Defies Kadaga’s Order On Distribution Of Covid-19 Relief Food In Kampala,Wakiso Districts

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

April 3, 2020

Health·News·Politics

COVID-19 Crisis: Parliament Blocks Gov’t Food Distribution Plan For Kampala, Wants It Extended Countrywide

Members of Parliament has halted the food distribution exercise for Kampala Metropolitan Area until government gives assurance that all Ugandans will benefit from the programme. In the Thursday 2, April, 2020 plenary, both the Speaker Rt Hon. Rebecca Kadaga and legislators said

April 3, 2020

News·Politics·Security

President Museveni Advised To Declare A State Of Emergency – What Next?

The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament Rt. Hon Rebecca Kadaga has told Legislators that she and the Chief Justice Bart Katureebe asked the President to declare a State of Emergency. A state of emergency is a condition of national danger whereby any government

April 2, 2020

Health·News

Speaker ‘Kadaga’ Blames KCCA, Police After Visiting Student Shot In The Mouth

The Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga on Friday said she was “hurt” by the lack of empathy by police and Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) leaders over the shooting of a senior six student recently. Ms Lowena Rachael Nankya, a

March 20, 2020

Crime·News·Security

Video: Top Interpol Bosses In Hot Soup Over Bribery, Extortion Scam

Concerned Citizens are in final stages to petition the State House Anti-Corruption Unit investigate the day robbery, fraud and corruption by top Police officers at Interpol headquarters Kololo led by the Interpol boss AIGP Moses Balimwoyo. This follows a failure by the

March 19, 2020

News·Politics

Who Represents Us In Parliament? Furious Elderly Petitions Kadaga

The elderly have petitioned the Speaker Rt Hon. Rebecca Kadaga, seeking representation in Parliament of Uganda. In their petition presented on 05 March by the National Council for Older Persons and the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), the senior citizens said that they

March 5, 2020

Lifestyle·News·Politics·Security

UPDF Helicopter Takes Wrong Route, Flies Speaker Kadaga To Mubende

A pilot who was in charge of a chattered helicopter for the speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga took the wrong route, ending up in a completely different destination than he should have landed. The pilot identified as Mupaapa Isma was supposed to

March 1, 2020

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