Action Aid Uganda a has warned MPs against amending article 26 of the constitution to give government compulsory acquisition of land saying they risk facing the citizen’s anger of the move. This was disclosed by the Fundraising Director at Action Aid Uganda, Henry Nickson Ogwal, while addressing Members of Parliament under the Uganda Women Parliamentary […]
Evicted Gold Miners in Mubende district are pessimistic that they will yield positive results from investigations by the parliamentary committee on natural resources. The miners were evicted a while ago by the army and police to give way to an investor to take over the area The committee is set to visit the mining area […]
Bank clients in Uganda have called upon government to set up an independent body to conduct a special audit into the operations of the Central Bank and the commercial banks in the country. The call has been made by the chairperson of the Bank Customers’ Rights Protection Organisation, Nabunya Ntege at a time the central […]
The Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has expressed disappointment with the government over the failure to get back to the committee regarding the Constitution Amendment bill 2017 within the stipulated time. The Committee Chaired by West Budama MP, Jacob Markson Oboth-Oboth, on Aug 1, 2017 gave the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban development […]
Members of the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources have said they plan to carry out an oversight visit following complaints over illegal eviction of artisan miners in Mubende district. This stemmed from a submission by Kassanda North MP, Patrick Nsamba, accusing the energy ministry of using the army to evict the local people from their […]
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has said it has discovered that there is alot of rigidity among top managers of the Microfinance Support Centre (MSC) in the transfer of Teacher’s SACCO funds for its operation. This has prompted the committee to issue summons to managers of the Micro Finance Support Centre to explain […]
MPs sitting on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament on Monday grilled the Ministry of Education and Sports officials to explain their expenditure of over 2.1billion shillings of public funds meant for private Universities. In his June 30th 2016 report to Parliament, Auditor General, John Muwanga, highlighted that the Ministry transferred 2.1billion shillings to […]
His majesty the Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi, has warned his subjects against taking their lives for granted by thinking that there are drugs to treat the HIV/Aids virus saying they should fully double their protection methods against the disease. Speaking at the opening of the 25th Lukiko at Bulange Mengo on Monday, the Kabaka reminded the subjects of […]
MPS on the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee have revived a probe into Makerere University Business School (MUBS) and Uganda Land Commission (ULC) previous land dealing which are currently generating conflict between the two institutions. The MPS investigations are facilitated by the Auditor General’s Report for the financial year 2016/17 which shows that the ULC compensated […]
Members of parliament sitting on the physical infrastructure committee have been surprised to learn that the SGS Company that was contracted to inspect vehicles in the country is doing this without any formal supervision from government. This was revealed during an interface between the parliamentary committee on Physical infrastructure with the Officials from the ministry […]