Members of Parliament are planning embark on the process of amending the constitution to make access to health a human right. Members of parliament under their umbrella body the Network for African Women Ministers and Parliamentarians-Uganda chapter say that the right to health is not well stipulated in the constitution of Uganda which may be […]
Members of the Network for African Women Ministers and Parliamentarians-Uganda Chapter have vowed to work towards having more funding for the health sector in the next national budget to ensure equipping of the Hospitals. The Chairperson of the Network for African Women Ministers and Parliamentarians-Uganda Sylvia Namabidde says that efforts are already under way to […]
Forum for Democratic Change leader Kiiza Besigye has this evening been released after he was detained for over 6 hours. Police this morning arrested Besigye at Blue Room along Namirembe Road as he tried to walk through town. He was then taken to the Central Police Station where he was held for several hours before […]
Members of Parliament have asked government to consider monitoring street preachers, saying that their preaching may incite religious conflicts among different believers . The legislators were reacting to the statement made by Kawempe north member of parliament also the parliamentary imam Latif Sebaggala on behalf of other Muslim MPs condemning the people who produced the […]
Members of Parliament have demanded government provides personal security after Buyaga west county Member of Parliament Barnabas Tinkasiimire family and home was set on fire by unidentified people on Monday this week in mukono. Mps expressed fears that if government does not provide them with security they will be useless in parliament saying they fear […]
Public Accounts committee has observed that expired drugs had been used by Gulu hospital to treat patients. The committee chaired by Terego county member of parliament Kassiano Wadri Ezat while meeting officials from Gulu hospital led by the hospital director Dr.Nathan Onyaki noted that Gulu hospital drugs got expired in the financial year 2009/10 due […]
The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee is concerned over the increasing theft and disappearance of Government drugs from the National Medical Stores, which has often been blamed for the shortage of drugs in Hospitals. The Committee chaired by Terego County MP Kassiano Wadri discovered that a lot of drugs disappear on the way calling for an […]
Some Members of Parliament have condemned the brutal manner in which opposition leader Col. Warren Kizza Besigye was arrested this morning. This follows the brutal arrest of Forum for Democratic Change leader, Dr Kizza Besigye this morning amidst chaos at Kisekka Market, in Kampala. Besigye had gone there as part of the renewed “For God […]
Members of Parliament and former mps who were in the seventh parliament have regretted having removed the presidential term limits. Addressing a joint press conference with mps and civil society organizations at hotel Africana in Kampala, they said presidential term limits should be reinstated. MPs Godfrey kiwanda, felix okot , Wilfred Niwagaba and former MPs […]
The Parliament of theRepublicofUgandaunder its Parliamentary commission has inaugurated theInstituteofParliamentarystudies. The function took place in the Parliament conference Hall and it was attended by both current and former MPs, Parliamentary staff, civil society, ambassadors, and human rights networkUganda, the media and members of the academia. The function was presided over by the speaker ofUgandaparliament, […]