The Uganda National Bureau of standards (UNBS) is pleading with parliament to effect amendment on the standards ACT to allow the creation of the standards tribunal to probe complaints over noncompliance regarding products standards.
The deputy executive director UNBS ,David Livingstone Ebiru told the parliamentary committee on Trade, Tourism and Industry presided over by Mawokota South MP, John Bosco Lubyayi that there many complaints over substandard products on market but few are dealt with ,since UNBS has no tribunal to investigate such cases conclusively .
Ebiru also agreed with MPs that most of UNBS services are basically centralized in Kampala, adding that they are revising ways of being felt in most the areas in the country.
The Woman MP for Kampala district Nabilah Naggayi Sempala also pins UNBS for conniving with some companies and allow substandard products on market.
Stella Kiiza, Woman MP for Kyegegwa district, says that the doubling of the UNBS budget as requested would be approved by parliament only when it has put in place measures that eliminates fake products from the Ugandan market .
The Uganda National Bureau of standards needs its budget increased from 14 billion shillings to about 30 billion shillings.