Government and Members of Parliament affected in the Constitutional court ruling that declared the presence of representatives for the army, youth and workers in Parliament as unconstitutional are to appeal against the case in the Supreme court. This as the Constitutional Court judgment of the ruling of the five judges who included; Remmy Kasule, Augustine Nshimye, Ruby […]
The parliamentary committee on legal and parliamentary affairs has taken its stand over a controversial section in the presidential amendment bill seeking for special groups to vote at special polling stations as will be gazetted by the electoral commission while they are on duty of deployment. This was reached on as the committee chaired by Kajara county MP Stephen Tashobya was meeting […]
Members of parliament and civil society are in procession preparation to jubilate the assent on the Tobacco control bill 2014. This as reports show that the president ascented to the ACT which bans smoking in public and selling one stick of cigarette to smokers. The shadow Minister for Health Dr. Micheal Lulume Bayiga said […]
Members of Parliament have condemned government for overlooking the parliament resolution which banned the export of domestic workers. The speaker of parliament said that government is exporting domestic workers to Saudi Arabia yet it will not be able to supervise them. She questioned whether government is filling the gaps of countries which have stopped supplying […]
Division in the Uganda People’s Congress party is not about to end. The party which has ever been in power twice finds that some of its Members of Parliament are calling for the current party president Jimmy Akena to vacate the party offices. The UPC MPs are divided over their two rivals: the ousted UPC president Olara […]
Two NRM rebel Members of Parliament are seemingly plotting to return their nomination forms at the party headquarters. This as the party delayed to have a common understating granting them authority to be entirely accepted into the party. Sources indicate that the Central Executive committee was supposed to meet the Chairman of the party and approve […]
Parliament resumes work in a special sitting today as the opposition members of parliament complain about the recall. Parliament was recalled from recess for a second time to handle important and pending urgent business from 1st – 3rd September 2015. Among the business on order paper to be handled included the NGO Bill, Creation of districts, Loan […]
Members of parliament on the Parliamentary Public Accounts committee of parliament were upset by discovering that the Ministry of health supplied to health facilities in the country medical equipment and these are laying on their verandas. In the meeting with Ministry of health officials led by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of health, Dr. […]
The Government Chief whip Ruth Nakabirwa Sentamu has called on members of parliament to adhere to Speaker’s summon for a special sitting next week. Nankabirwa said that she targets 200 MPs who are already using the parliamentary recess to do political campaigns to return and finish pending work required urgently. She said that the rules […]
The Member of Parliament at the East African Legislative Assembly on communication, trade and investments committee calls on the East African council of ministers to expedite the introduction of the industrial bill for the East African community countries. The EALA MPs made this recommendation while debating a committee report on the investment strategies in the EAC […]