public servants

URA defends payout to civil servants as MPs call for a probe.

URA defends payout to civil servants as MPs call for a probe.

The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has come out to defend the reward of over $1.6m (about 6 billion Uganda shillings) to civil servants who participated in a Uganda government legal battle with a UK-based Heritage Oil Company. In a press statement released on Thursday, Sarah Birungi Banage, the Assistant Commissioner Public and Corporate Affairs with […]

New salary structures for workers

The Minister for the Presidency, Muruuli Mukasa has revised the salary structures of public servants and councilors working in Kampala district. This follows a directive by parliament requesting him to table before the House the salary structure for the Kampala Capital City Authority staff. According to the sources in the minister’s office, the Executive Director […]

Directorate of ethics and integrity drafts bill against corrupt officials

The Directorate of Ethics and Integrity is in final stages of drafting a bill that will allow individual Ugandans to sue corrupt government ministers, president among other public officials. The bill against the corrupt will be called ‘’quintum bill 2012.’ The bill will allow individual Ugandans to provide information and the Attorney General will be […]

RDC’s assigned to follow up corrupt public officials

  A controversy in assignments has risen up between Inspector General of Government’s (IGG) office and the resident district commissioners across the country. Under Ugandan laws it is the Inspector General of Government (IGG) mandated to follow up the corrupt public servants and bring them to book. However the president of Uganda , Gen. Yoweri […]

Uganda Government not decided on Public Service College

Members of parliament want the public service college to be run by Uganda Management Institute rather than building a new institution for the public servants. The member of parliament for  Arua municipality who is also the chairperson of the parliamentary committee on physical infrastructure Ajedra Gadison says that UMI has all it takes to house this […]

Police have suffered most from government’s insensitive policies

Since April 2011, activists for change (A4C) have been campaigning against government’s failure to manage rising cost of living, inflation and wastage of public resources which affect every Ugandan. Protesters from all walks of life including students to elderly citizens, ordinary working people to opposition party leaders, parliamentarians, lawyers, traders, civil society etc came out […]