Experts have given an above average ranking for Uganda’s economy saying the East African country’s business outlook is positive, despite an expected decline in the global economy. Companiesandmarkets.com which rates economies all over the world said in their quarterly report that Uganda’s economy will continue to experience growth, in big part due to being domestically […]
A baseline survey made in 2009 by the Uganda Debt Network (UDN) has indicated that failure to involve the population in the planning process is the cause of poor implementation of government programs. The survey says that failure to involve the population in the planning process makes proper accountability almost impossible because the population is not empowered with […]
Members of the Uganda Parliamentary Press Association have tasked the Uganda parliament speaker Edward Ssekandi to give a date when the Uganda Parliament will debate misappropriation of the 2007 Uganda Common Wealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The report prepared by the Uganda Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee and completed in early 2010 implicated top government […]
The Anti corruption Court in Kampala today has sentenced the former Chief Engineer in the Ministry of Works and Transport, Samson Bagonza to three years in jail for causing financial loss to the government of Uganda in 2007 and another two more years for abuse of abuse. It is however not yet clear whether Bagonza […]
The Former Deputy Managing Director of the Uganda National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Prof. Mondo Kangonyera has said that it would have been better if the NSSF had settled the case opened against it by Alcon International Limited for canceling a contract to construct Worker’s House. Kagonyera is the former deputy to David Chandi Jamwa […]
The former Managing director of Uganda National Social Security Fund (NSSF), David Chandi Jamwa’s lawyer, David Mpanga has appealed to the Anti-corruption court to give his client a speedy trial because it is his right. Mpanga also appealed to the anti-corruption court to avail him with all the necessary documents to enable him defend his […]
The Uganda Ministry of Foreign Affairs has pledged to provide proper accountability for the money that will be given to the Foreign Affairs ministry to organize the forthcoming African Union (AU) summit in Uganda. The 15th Africa Union summit which will attract heads of African governments, civil society organizations and business executives among others is […]
The former managing director of the Uganda National Security Fund (NSSF), David Chandi Jamwa has been arrested by Uganda border police for trying to escape out of the country. According to the Uganda Eastern region Police Commander Joel Agume, Jamwa was arrested today (22nd June 2010) at 3am with three other people at Eastern Uganda […]
The Parliamentary Local Government committee wants the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) to reopen a court file against four Kampala City Council officials in which over a billion shillings was diverted from the council accounts. The Auditor General’s office found that about one billion shillings meant for the operations of departments in KCC was withdrawn […]
The Member of Parliament for Katikamu North, Eng. Ibrahim Byandala is one of the people that has been implicated in a financial scandal in which Kampala City Council (KCC) failed to account for about 79 million Uganda shillings which it purportedly used for procuring spare parts for vehicles, repairs and servicing of KCC’s vehicles. In […]