Parliament undertakes to spearhead a campaign to ensure all workplaces have facilities that enable mothers to breastfeed. This will make mothers take care of their babies in order to uphold rights of children and also ensure efficiency. The speaker of parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga says that if the campaign is successful, the country will have a […]
Members and staff of Parliament led by the Clerk to Parliament, Mrs. Jane Kibirige and Mawokota south MP Kenneth Bbosa Kiyingi have contributed to the fundraising drive towards the preparation for the Papal visit, next week. The fundraising drive involved the MPs and staff purchasing over 50 souvenir rosaries from the Vision Group. The proceeds from […]
The Eastern region youth MP Peter Ogwang has appealed to parliament to increase on the number of youth representatives in parliament from 5 to 23. Ogwang made the appeal while appearing before parliamentary committee on legal affairs to give views on parliamentary elections amendment bill 2015. He says that youth, women ,PWDs and Army MPS are all in […]
President Museveni has made a mini cabinet reshuffle in which he has named veteran politician Kirunda Kivejinja as Third Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs. The President also appointed Bukedea Woman MP Rose Akol as the Internal Affairs minister, replacing the late General Aronda Nyakairima who passed away in September this year, Hon […]
Parliament has passed the Public Finance Management (Amendment), Bill 2015 to borrow 10% from Bank of Uganda without parliament approval. The passed bill allows government to bypass parliament to get money from Bank of Uganda through the Minister of finance and later inform parliament. Members of Parliament amended clause 7 under section 36 2(e) of the […]
Opposition members of parliament say that Kampala Capital City Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2015 which they claim is targeting the current Lord mayor Erias Lukwago may attract massive resistance among the people whose rights to vote their mayor is violated if its not dropped. The Member of Parliament for Lubaga south John Ken Lukyamuzi says that […]
The speaker of parliament asked the group of people who opposed her decision of retaining the four MPs in parliament who had been expelled by the NRM party to apologize. This follows the recent Supreme Court ruling that Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga was constitutional when she refused to expel the rebel National Resistance Movement MPs […]
Members of Parliament have rejected surrendering their powers to government to withdraw funds from bank of Uganda without parliament approval under the public finance management Act 2015. The MPs who include Nathan Nadala Mafabi and Jack Wamai wamanga say that they are not going to give government a blank cheque to borrow money without approval of […]
Parliament called a special sitting to pay tribute to the late Omwonya Oribdhogu Stanley who has been the Member of Parliament for Okoro County in Zombo district. The special sitting is scheduled for today Wednesday at 2:00pm. The clerk to parliament says that the body of late Omwonya Oribdhogu Stanley will arrive at parliament at 10:00am for public […]
Members of parliament under the Uganda Parliamentarians Forum on Food Security, Population and Development have demanded a trillion shillings budget for the agriculture sector. Speaking to journalists at parliament the secretary General for this forum and MP for Kakuto county, Mathias Kasamba, said that its time for the government to find a big budget for agriculture […]