The ministry for health warned health workers in West Nile against selling drugs meant for testing and vaccinating people against Hepatitis B. The warning came after Moyo woman MP Ann Auru told parliament that some health workers in her district are charging people shs 3000 to carry out tests on them about this disease. However, health […]
Parliament has passed the private members bill known as the Children’s Amendment bill 2015. The bill was initiated by the shadow minister for children Affairs Bernard Atiku. The passed bill says that the adoption process of children shall take one year. Under the Children’s Amendment bill 2015, legal guardianship has been limited to only Ugandan citizens. This bill […]
The ministry of gender, labor and social development has appealed to the finance ministry to avail funds to enable election of workers’ members of parliament. The sector’s minister Muruli Mukasa, says that the ministry has no money to hold these elections yet their efforts to seek finance’s intervention have also hit a snag because the finance […]
The speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga has asked the attorney general to come up with a statement on when elections for the LC1s will be conducted. Kadaga says people are yearning for these elections which she claims complete the election cycle but the date when they will be conducted is still unknown. The speaker made the […]
The Member of Parliament elect who was among the Rebel MPs, Wilfred Nuwagaba, says the overwhelming support for their return to parliament is an indication that they defeated the party dictatorship which was imposed on them. Wilfred Nuwagaba who contested on the independent ticket and won the Ndorwa East parliamentary seat overwhelmingly says that in the […]
As Majority of the longest serving ministers and members of parliament lost in the just concluded parliamentary elections, those who survived speak out on how they made it. One of the ministers who has been in parliament for more than two terms Ruth Nankabirwa says although the election process was too tough, including her being challenged for over stay, she explains […]
The member of parliament for Bulisa county Stephen Birahwa Mukitale says that there should be a mechanism to have the leading opposition presidential candidate to physically be in parliament. Speaking to journalists at parliament Mukitale says the leader of opposition like Dr. Besigye currently should be in parliament to give his brain to the lawmaking process […]
The Family of late Prof Ali Mazrui who was a renowned author and scholar has pledged to contribute to the furnishing of Prof. Mazrui resource centre in Uganda with an objective of making Ugandans and all people in world to continue cherishing the work of late Mazrui. This was disclosed by the Mrs Pauline Mazrui while meeting the clerk of parliament […]
Members of Parliament have mixed reaction over vote rigging as opposition MPs say that the opposition has no capacity to steal votes as alluded by President Yoweri Museveni. The member of Parliament for Busiro East in Wakiso district Medard Segona says the remarks by president Museveni are excuses so that the NRM Party rigs these elections. Kalungu […]
Parliament has closed the office of parliamentary reporters after court put injunction on parliament’s plan to bar journalists without degrees from covering proceedings. The new directive issued by the Director Communication and public Affairs Chris Obore says in a letter that parliament took the decision after consultation with the speaker of parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga. The […]