Members of Parliament

MPs to pay taxes to ruling party headquarters

The members of Parliament on NRM ticket have been asked by the NRM Chairman Gen. Yoweri Museveni to increase the money they contribute to the party’s consolidated fund per month. According to sources, President Museveni and NRM Secretary General Amama Mbabazi have proposed that each MP on NRM ticket pays a monthly tax of 15% […]

EALA meeting in Kampala enters day three

The session of Members of parliament of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) going on in Kampala has entered day three.  The session was opened by President Museveni on January 25th 2012.  President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya addressed the same EALA session on Wednesday January 25th. The East African Legislative Assembly meeting is sitting in […]

Museveni opens EALA meeting

Members of parliament of the East African Assembly (EALA) have gathered at the Parliament of Uganda for their last session of the second sitting of the East African Legislative Assembly. The security in Kampalaand around the parliament is so tight. The EALA session has been opened by President Museveni. The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) […]

MPs ask ERA to withdraw statements on power tariff increase

Members of Parliament have asked the electricity Regulatory Authority to withdraw the statement issued yesterday, defying an order to halt the charging of new tariffs. The board of the Electricity Regulatory is appearing before the probe committee into the energy sector that has been overshadowed by reports of corruption. Members of the committee yesterday questioned […]

Government directed us to approve Kayihura as inspector general of governance, says MPs

 Members of Parliament on NRM ticket say they were under instructions to approve Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura as the inspector General of Police.  President Museveni renewed Kayihura’s contract of the Inspector General of Police in November last year week and Kayihura’s name was sent to parliament for vetting.  We have been told that the members […]

MPs shocked government has no water expert on Owens Falls Dam

Members of Parliament investigating the mismanagement of the Power sector have today heard that the Government of Uganda does not have any expert to represent it in monitoring the water levels at the Kiira Dam as it is discharged to generate power. The power generation at the dam is managed through a concession by Eskom, […]

MPs query Picfare industries over Burundi T-shirts

Members of Parliament on the public accounts committee of parliament have expressed concern that the picfare industries limited went ahead to supply 300,000 T-shirts worth 1.3 billion shillings to the Burundian government as part of scholastic materials. The government of Burundi authorized Uganda to pay the monies owed to Burundi to Picfare industries in turn […]

President Yoweri Museveni asked to get serous on corruption

Members of Parliament have called on President Yoweri Museveni to take stringent actions government officials cited in the rampant corruption scandals instead of waiting for parliament’s intervention. The MPs on the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee say that is currently investigating the misappropriation of US $ 14 million given to the government of Burundi from Uganda […]

Uganda MPs want government to change

Members of Parliament on both opposition and government ticket want the ruling government to get out of power. Lwemiyaga MP Theodre Sekikubo says that many MPs including those supposed to dance on government believe in change and they are ready to implement the same. He tells us that the 9th parliament is no long interested […]

Minister Ruhindi fails to defend Public Order management Bill

Members of parliament on legal and parliamentary Affairs thrown out the committee deputy Attorney General Fred Ruhindi for failure to defend the public order management bill which is under scrutiny. The deputy Attorney General Fred Ruhindi was asked to leave the committee when he told MPS that he wanted to first harmonize some issues in the bill […]