By Isaac Senabulya on September 22, 2017
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Government has directed the Uganda Revenue Authority to finalize verification of Ugandan companies that supplied goods and services to the government of South Sudan and were not paid. The minister of state for planning David Bahati made the directive after MPs put him on task to explain when government will pay the affected traders. Bahati told […]
By Isaac Senabulya on August 7, 2017
David Bahati, Deputy Speaker, Hassan Fungaroo, Human Rights committee, Jacob Oulanyah, Minister of State for Planning, MP for Busongoara North in Kasese district, Obongi County MP, Parliamentary Human Rights Committee Leadership, William Nzoughu
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MPS are divided over a proposal seeking transferring the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee Leadership to the independent members of Parliament from the NRM party members. The rules committee had proposed that the Human Rights committee be chaired by the independent MPS but both the opposition and NRM members of Parliament want to be in charge […]
By Isaac Senabulya on July 22, 2017
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The Minister of State for Investment and Privatization, Evelyn Anite, has revealed that investment brokers are approaching her almost on daily basis to bribe her not to expose investors to information that they are entitled to free land. She disclosed this while appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on Finance to defend the investment code bill […]
By Isaac Senabulya on July 10, 2017
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Government has urged Parliament to come up with strategies on ending teenage pregnancies which it says is still high among the girl child in Uganda. The Minister of State for Planning, David Bahati, while presenting a statement during the World Population Day in Kampala said Parliamentarians can play a crucial role in ending the vice […]
By Isaac Senabulya on July 6, 2017
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Government is in the final stages of terminating the contract of Tibet Hima Industry Mining Company Ltd at Kilembe mining in Kasese district over what authorities say are irregularities of its operation. The move comes after the Leader of Opposition, Winfred Kiiza, reported to Parliament that the investor of Tibet Hima Company has mismanaged the […]
By Gerald Businge on July 6, 2017
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The Ministry of Finance has threatened to halt the release of funds to all ministries, department and agencies that have failed to submit their plans for the financial year 2017/2018. According to statistics from the National Planning Authority, of the total current number of 130 ministries, department and agencies, only 27 have successfully submitted their […]
By Isaac Senabulya on April 21, 2017
aid funded projects and industries in the radius of 50 from the Kampala as a way of decongesting the city, and also restructure the betting taxes, David Bahati, kampala, landlords, new tax proposal to betting and lottery., operations of Bujagali power dam up to 2033 which will reduce in power tariffs, Parliamentary Finance Committee, presenting proposed tax amendments for the next financial year 2017/2018, six proposed tax amendment bills, State minister for planning, taxes on Tobacco, unprocessed rice for four months
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The government is to start regulating rental fees in Kampala starting next financial year 2017/18 as a way of ensuring that landlords who often dodge taxes are checked. The proposal has been made by government, state minister for planning, David Bahati, before the Parliamentary Finance Committee recently. Bahati who was presenting proposed tax amendments for […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on November 7, 2016
a variety of passion fruits and other crops on a two-acre piece of land, accompanied the President., Animal Industry and Fisheries, commissioning a solar water pumping irrigation system at Kyerero village, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Employment and Industrial Relations and area MP, Farmer Kwehangaana Rutaro grows apples, former NAADS and the Ministry of Water and Environment, Hon. David Bahati and State Minister for Labour, Hon. Herbert Kabafunzaki, Hon. Vincent Ssempija, in Kabale district, Kaberamaido, Katakwi, Kiryandongo, Kumi, masindi, Mukono and Luuka solar water pumping irrigation schemes, Nyamihanda Parish near Muhanga Township in Bukinda, people to shift away from mass eradication of poverty through modern methods of farming with accountability in mind, President Yoweri Museveni has encouraged farmers in the country, Prime Minister, Rubanda county, Rukiga County, soroti, State minister for planning, tasked the Ministry of Agriculture, The Minister of Agriculture, The system was installed on the farm of Mr. Charles Kwehangaana Rutaro following the President's pledge in 2010, to install in the districts of Kabale, to instill in their minds the culture and practice of growing crops all year around using any improvised means of irrigation scheme to combat drought spells, who are engaged in crop production
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President Yoweri Museveni has encouraged farmers in the country, who are engaged in crop production, to instill in their minds the culture and practice of growing crops all year around using any improvised means of irrigation scheme to combat drought spells. “The science of pumping water from a water source to a reservoir at a […]
By Isaac Senabulya on October 4, 2016
500 village and parish register compilation officials, Attorney General William Byaruhanga told the committee that they hoped to conduct the elections within the next two months, Badru Kiggundu, committee chaired by Igara West MP, compilation of voters’ register, David Bahati, demarcation and harmonization of administrative units and boundaries and payment for 65, Electoral Commission Chairman, electoral commission to conduct elections for the administrative units and women councils, gender, Janat Mukwaya, Labour and social development Minister, lunch and training of compilation officers at sub county level, media and civil society organizations for one day, minister of local government Tom Butime., MPs on the public service and local government committee today rejected the budget amounting to 37.6b shillings, national workshop for stakeholders including political parties, Raphael said that the amendment that provides for lining up behind LC 1 candidates does not require printing ballots, regional workshops for commission staff, the Finance State Minister in-charge general duties said shs7.3b was in place to have the elections conducted, the last phase of the 2015/16 general elections
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Gender, Labour and Social Development Minister, Janat Mukwaya and MPs on the public service and local government committee last week rejected the budget amounting to 37.6b shillings required by the electoral commission to conduct elections for the administrative units and women councils, the last phase of the 2015/16 general elections. Electoral Commission Chairman, Badru Kiggundu […]
By Isaac Senabulya on September 21, 2016
47 in the central region and 53 in western Uganda, 52% in eastern Uganda, 83% in central Uganda and 63% in eastern Uganda, 90.5 in eastern Uganda, According to the report released in Kampala on Tuesday morning, Amos Lugolobi, China water and Electricity Corporation, education, Government last year borrowed 483 million dollars (about 1.4 trillion shillings) to construct Isimba dam, in protest for delayed payment, Isimba Power dam are likely to come to a standstill after 200 Chinese laid down their tools, Northern Uganda 64% of citizens were living below the poverty line in 2006 but currently 84% live below poverty line on the national scale, Ntenjeru North MP, only 35% of residents in Northern Uganda have mobile phones, projected to produce about 83 Megawatts of electricity., social sector, state minister for planning David Bahati, the Contracting Company, the number of Ugandans living below national poverty line has reduced from 56.3% in 1993 to 19.7% in 2013, the teacher to pupil ratio is one teacher to 136 in northern Uganda, while the international poverty line has as well shifted from 68.1% in 1993 to 34.6% in 2013, World Bank country director Christina Malmbrerg Calvo said the report envisages inequitable development which must be addressed, World Bank poverty assessment report for (2006 to 2013) shows increasing poverty levels in Northern Uganda despite increased international and government investments in the region
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The World Bank poverty assessment report for (2006 to 2013) shows increasing poverty levels in Northern Uganda despite increased international and government investments in the region. According to the report released in Kampala on Tuesday morning, the number of Ugandans living below national poverty line has reduced from 56.3% in 1993 to 19.7% in 2013, […]
