Parliament

Uganda Government wants MPs to start electing president

The people who have been planning to contest for president in 2016 should better read this first! An impeccable source at State House Nakasero has told this writer that there is a proposal for MPs to start choosing the country’s president.  A source explains that this proposal is still under discussion. The ruling party wants […]

Uganda parties front candidates for East African Parliament

The list of candidates vying for the 9 Uganda slots in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) which most parties have been keeping as a top secret has been revealed now. The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has three candidates in the race: Salaam Musumba, former MP for Busongora South, Christopher Kibazanga and former Lead […]

Key issues of contention in Uganda’s oil sector reflected in case against Tullow and Government

Kampala based lawyer Hamada Mulumba has filed a petition in the High Court seeking an injusction against the government granting of oil licenses and approving oil deals and halting the activities of Tullow oil company. Through Bwambale , Musede and Co. Advocates, Mulumba states that 50% of the stake Tullow Bought from Heritage Oil was […]

Former MP Suzan Nampijja taking driving lessons

This may sound a little bit strange but very true. After spending five years in the eighth parliament, former Lubaga South MP, Suzan Nampijja cannot drive a car. Despite owning very many expensive cars, we have been reliably informed that she has never driven any of them herself. Our informers found out this yesterday on […]

The president of Uganda, Gen. Yoweri Museveni wooed me out of DP

  Kampala former Mayor, Hajji Nasser Sebaggala has revealed that president Museveni used him to fight DP promising to make him great in the country’s politics. In a shocking revelation to his supporters on Saturday at his Bugolobi home, Sebaggala said he was not happy with president Museveni. “He used me to fight DP and […]

MPs shocked government has no water expert on Owens Falls Dam

Members of Parliament investigating the mismanagement of the Power sector have today heard that the Government of Uganda does not have any expert to represent it in monitoring the water levels at the Kiira Dam as it is discharged to generate power. The power generation at the dam is managed through a concession by Eskom, […]

MPs query Picfare industries over Burundi T-shirts

Members of Parliament on the public accounts committee of parliament have expressed concern that the picfare industries limited went ahead to supply 300,000 T-shirts worth 1.3 billion shillings to the Burundian government as part of scholastic materials. The government of Burundi authorized Uganda to pay the monies owed to Burundi to Picfare industries in turn […]

Government to buy bicycles for LCI chairpersons

Although the money to buy the first batch of bicycles for LCI chairpersons across the country was embezzled last financial year, the government has not yet forgotten the LCI executives. We are reliably informed that the government has bought the second batch of bicycles for LCI chairpersons across the country. The sources in the line […]

Uganda Parliament to host inter parliament union

The Parliament of Uganda will host the 126th Inter Parliamentary Union meeting from March 31 to April 4th, 2012 in Kampala. Uganda Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga tells us that Uganda Parliament is ready to receive the over 1500 delegates from 160 countries during the inter parliament union. Ms Kadaga says that even all Ugandans […]

MP Mohamad Nsereko in sugarcane fest

In what looks like a ploy to gain more popularity among the low income earners in Kampala, the MP for Kampala Central division, Hajji Mohammed Nsereko shocked all revelers when he sat in St. Balikudembe market and ate a sugarcane. He seated among very dirty market vendors and started eating sugarcane while telling them what […]

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