The Amnesty commission plead to parliament to amend the law that established this commission so as there is no uncertainty of its existence. This was disclosed by the chairperson of the Amnesty commission Peter Onega while the commission members were meeting the deputy speaker of parliament Jacob Oulanyah at parliament over the issues affecting the Amnesty […]
The parliamentary appointments committee has vetted and approved the Inspector General of government for the five year second term of office. The president renewed the IGG’s Justice Irene Mulyagonja term of office contract after serving the first five years battling the cases of corruption. Justice Mulyagonja today morning appeared before the parliamentary appointments committee chaired by the […]
Buganda Road Court chief Magistrate Jamson Karemani has released Winnie Natongo who has been facing charges of lying to Police about Father Jacinto Kibuuka. On March 4th 2016 Nantongo was charged by the same magistrate for giving police false information about the Man of God, who she accused of abusing her sexually. Early this year Nantongo reported to the Kampala Central […]
In a series of losses to electoral petitions coined around inadequate academic papers, the High Court sitting in Jinja has nullified the election of National Resistance Movement (NRM)’s Hajat Rehema Watongola as a member of parliament for Kamuli municipality. Kamuli Municipality was created as part of the 12 municipalities approved by parliament and became effective […]
The Leader of Opposition in Parliament Winnie Kiiza is asking the speaker of parliament to protect MPs from unnecessary arrests by police with out her notice. She has given a case in point of Nakawa Municipality MP Micheal Kabaziguluka who was last week arrested from his home for suspected cases of treason. Kiiza says the […]
Busiro south elected Member of Parliament Peter Sematimba of the ruling NRM party has been thrown out of Parliament for lack of academic qualifications, by the high court. One of Sematimba’s political rivals in the February elections Steven Ssekigozi of the opposition Democratic Party-DP, dragged him to the courts of law challenging his papers. In his petition Sekigozi asked court to nullify […]
The Inspectorate of Government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the finance intelligence authority with an intention of teaming up to fight money laundering in Uganda. This follows recent enactment of the Anti-money laundering act which created this authority to fight money laundering in Uganda. Addressing a joint press conference at the IGG’s office, the Executive Director Finance Intelligence […]
Minority groups in the country have petitioned the high court challenging the Uganda registration service bureau for failure to register them as a company limited by guarantee. The executive director Sexual Minorities Uganda, Frank Mugisha states that the URSB gave them reasons that they could not have them registered since they are not legally recognized by […]
President Yoweri Museveni has promised to deal with the corrupt officials in his new term of government; he gave the warning as he delivered his state of nation address to parliament as he opened the second sitting 10th parliament. He told parliament that his government is going to handle the corrupt officials like the national resistance movement brought discipline in the […]
Former Terego county MP Kasiano Wadri denied claims that he received a bribe from the Uganda national roads authority-UNRA to cover up the Institution corruption scandal while he was a chairperson of the parliamentary public accounts committee since June 2011 to 2013. The commission of inquiry into mismanagement of the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) […]