By Gerald Businge on August 4, 2017
Alex Byarugaba, committee chaired by Isingiro South MP, Dr. Stephen Robert Ishabiija, Gold artisan, Illegal miners in Mubende, local miners, Minister of State for Energy and Mineral Development, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources, Peter Lokeris, small scale gold miners, UPDF representative in parliament Brigadier Innocent Felix OulaUganda minerals .
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Illegal miners in Mubende are running away from the mining areas following government’s exercise of registering local miners in this place in the district. Gold artisan and small scale gold miners in Mubende who are leaving under fear following alleged presidential directive to evict them from the area are also now going through registration to separate […]
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 13, 2016
Alex Byarugaba, Basil Ajer, committee chaired by Isingiro County MP, The Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources has directed the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) to review a license it issued to Chinese Company Mango Tree Group to mine sand, told the UIA officials on Wednesday that they should have revoked the company’s license following the ministerial directive, UIA Director
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The Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources has directed the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) to review a license it issued to Chinese Company Mango Tree Group to mine sand. The directive comes after the MPs discovered that in May last year, the then minister for environment, Prof.Ephraim Kamuntu, directed that the company only deals in digging Lake […]
By Gerald Businge on August 17, 2016
Alex Byarugaba, Chairperson of the Natural Resources Committee, Committee Chaired by the Isingiro South MP, formally Owen falls dam and Kiira hydro power plants their main power generation house has developed a serious crack, Harrison Mutekanga, Karuma and Isimba hydro power plants to support government initiative of providing employment to youth to keep power tariff affordable and competitive., Lawrence Songa, Nalubale, Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources, the Chief Executive Officer of the Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL), the MP for Ora County in Zombo district also demanded to know the contractor who built a section on Karuma power dam which developed similar cracks, UEGCL plans to increase hydro power installation capacity by 50% from 380MW to 833MW by the year 2020
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The Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources has discovered that Nalubale, formally Owen falls dam and Kiira hydro power plants their main power generation houses have developed a serious cracks. Harrison Mutekanga, the Chief Executive Officer of the Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL)today (August 17)told the Committee Chaired by the Isingiro South MP, Alex Byarugaba, that the two […]
By Isaac Senabulya on August 4, 2016
Alex Byarugaba, Electricity Act, Karuma Ayago in Nwoya district, Parliament’s National Resource Committee, power dams like Isimba, power vandalism, UETCL’s Chairperson, Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL), who is the MP for Isingiro, William Kiryahika
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Officials from the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) has asked parliamentarians to amend the the Electricity Act so that they can effectively deal with rampant problem of power vandalism in the Country. While appearing before Parliament’s National Resource Committee, William Kiryahika, UETCL’s Chairperson said if amended, the Act will be strengthened so as better […]
