By Gerald Businge on November 7, 2016
Abdul Katuntu, atuntu insisted that anyone who used public money whether in a form of donation or grant., auditor general’s report of 2014/15 queried the action stating that it was public money which should be refunded by Karim to REA, Bugweri County MP, Business man Karim Hirj last week confirmed that the 262 million shillings given to him by President to purchase a transformer during the 2007 Common Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) was a gift, Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, President Yoweri Museveni in 2007 before the hosting of CHOGM directed the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) to advance the money to Karim’s Hotel Imperial Royal to buy a transformer, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE)
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Business man Karim Hirj last week confirmed that the 262 million shillings given to him by President to purchase a transformer during the 2007 Common Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) was a gift. Karim told this to a team of four MPs who had been sent by the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises […]
By Gerald Businge on November 4, 2016
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East African Police Chiefs have met in Kampala together with their Italian counterpart who will share policing capabilities in the partner organisations in order to enhance cooperation in combating criminal activities. According to the police spokesperson, Andrew Felix Kaweesi, Commander General, Francisco Ratta, will tour different police facilities including the Police Command & Staff College […]
By Gerald Businge on November 4, 2016
Lucy Achiro Otim, Member of Parliament for Aruu North in Pader district, women organizations to empower women to be strong to challenge men for any elective position., women politicians face mistreatment from men when they challenge them for the direct Parliamentary seats in their respective districts
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The Member of Parliament for Aruu North in Pader district, Lucy Achiro Otim, has revealed that women politicians face mistreatment from men when they challenge them for the direct Parliamentary seats in their respective districts. She says that men blackmail women when they assess that have support to win them in elections. “They resort to calling […]
By Gerald Businge on November 1, 2016
According to information posted on the Health Monitoring Unit website of Uganda, Atwiine has skills in Leadership and Management, Dr Aceng who was previously a Director General of Health Services, Dr Diana Atwiine, Dr. Asuman Lukwago, Dr.Atwiine who is a Physician (Specialist in Internal Medicine), Minister of Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, new Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health replacing long serving Permanent Secretary, President Yoweri Museveni, PS Ministry of Health been working as the Director at the Health Monitoring Unit of State House since 2009, She was previously a senior researcher in HIV and infectious diseases at the Joint Clinical Research Center (JCRC) for over 10 years., was elevated to the position of Minister of Health and hence supervisor of Dr. Lukwago
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President Yoweri Museveni last week appointed, Dr Diana Atwiine, as the new Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health replacing long serving Permanent Secretary, Dr. Asuman Lukwago, who has been at loggerheads with some ministry’s officials a situation which had threatened to paralyse operations at the ministry. Dr.Atwiine who is a Physician (Specialist in Internal […]
By Gerald Businge on October 28, 2016
acting commissioner in charge of aquaculture management and development, Alex Byarugaba, Aogon Cyrus, committee chaired by Isingiro South MP, committee members that Aqua World Company which belongs to Prophet, Dr.Edward Ruukunya and Joyce Nyeko over their failure to raise an alarm against illegal sand mining in Lwera when people who were destroying Lwera wetland are hiding behind sand mining., Fisheries and Animal Husbandry, grilled the officials from the ministry of agriculture who included; the acting commissioner in charge of fisheries and resource development, illegal fish ponds and sand mining sites, Joyce Ikwput Nyeko, Kumi Municipality MP, Lake Victoria shores in Lwera, Ministry of Agriculture, Parliamentary Natural Resource Committee, practice is affecting the breeding area of fish, Samuel Kakande, Synagogue Church of all Nations in Mulago
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry has recommended the closure of all illegal fish ponds and sand mining sites along Lake Victoria shores in Lwera. The acting commissioner in charge of aquaculture management and development, Joyce Ikwput Nyeko, while appearing before the Parliamentary Natural Resource Committee which is probing illegal sand mining in […]
By Gerald Businge on October 26, 2016
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MPs have appealed to government to enter into negotiations with the management of Bujagali hydro power project so that they can reach an arrangement that will enable power tariff to be affordable to every household in the Country. The Chairperson Natural Resources Committee, Alex Byarugaba, says that power tariffs have been raising just because Government has […]
By Gerald Businge on October 26, 2016
chairperson of the committee who is also the Woman MP for Nakasongola district, Chairperson of the Zimbabwean Women Parliamentary caucus senator, labour and social development have demanded for a regional legal framework to curb female genital mutilation, Margret Komuhangi, Members of Parliament on the committee on gender, Monica Matsvangwa, visiting Zimbabwean female MPs
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Members of Parliament on the committee on gender, labour and social development have demanded for a regional legal framework to curb female genital mutilation. The MPs say that although Uganda on December 10th 2009 passed a law banning the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), some tribes are still carrying the tradition. The chairperson of the […]
By Gerald Businge on October 26, 2016
bad weather and poor climate, cause of food shortage in the region, Government and other Humanitarian agencies extending handouts to the people facing food shortage does not mean that the people are lazy, has defended the people of Karamonja saying they are not lazy as many Ugandans tend to portray them, Labwor County Member of Parliament in Abim district, Michael Ayepa, seeds that are given to farmers in Karamoja to plant noted that it’s unfair for Government to distribute seeds without consulting farmers on when they are supposed to plant.
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Labwor County Member of Parliament in Abim district, Michael Ayepa, has defended the people of Karamonja saying they are not lazy as many Ugandans tend to portray them. Ayepa says for Government and other Humanitarian agencies extending handouts to the people facing food shortage does not mean that the people are lazy and cannot work […]
By Gerald Businge on October 26, 2016
000 poles are used by UMEME every year, 000 to 10, and that in the last 10 years alone, asked UMEME to sensitize all their agents not to cut the all trees but trim them to get poles., between 50, half a million trees have been cut for poles, Johnson Muyanja Ssenyonga, Mukono South MP, Nature Uganda has partnered with UMEME in a campaign dubbed U green where they expect to plant over 1 million trees in the next 5 years, planting the first batch of 1500 trees at Salama school for the blind in Nakisunga sub county in Mukono district, said that they have a role to conserve the environment since the company is one number user of trees cut for poles, Selestino Babungi, UMEME Uganda’s managing director
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Nature Uganda has partnered with UMEME in a campaign dubbed U green where they expect to plant over 1 million trees in the next 5 years. While planting the first batch of 1500 trees at Salama school for the blind in Nakisunga sub county in Mukono district ,UMEME Uganda’s managing director, Selestino Babungi, said that […]
By Gerald Businge on October 26, 2016
acting commissioner in charge of employment services in the ministry of gender, Bahrain, bilateral agreements with Arab countries including; Qatar, Government is to create a labour force desk at Entebbe International Airport to regulate the exportation of domestic workers aboard, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, Labour and Social Development, labour force desk at Entebbe airport will detect any cases of trafficking in persons, Middle East countries such as Saudi Arabia, Milton Turyasiima, while speaking at the prevention and protection of women, young girls from exploitative migrant labour meeting organized by platform for Labour Action Uganda at hotel Africana on Monday
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Government is to create a labour force desk at Entebbe International Airport to regulate the exportation of domestic workers aboard especially to the Middle East countries such as Saudi Arabia where there have been numerous complaints of abuses. This was disclosed by the acting commissioner in charge of employment services in the ministry of gender, labour […]
