The political future of Uganda Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa and Internal Affairs Minister Hilary Onek hang on a precipice as they await Tuesday’s meeting of members of Parliament in the continuing debate on the handling of the country’s oil sector. The MPs who begun their special sitting to discuss the […]
Members of Parliament are demanding government to cancel the concession agreement made with UMEME and take on the supply of electricity to solve the problems of high tariffs and load-shedding. Lawmakers on the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources including Hanifa kawoya and Getrude Nankabirwa say UMEME connived with government officials in the ministry of privatization and […]
Members of Parliament on the Tourism and Trade committee today threw out officials from the Ministry of Finance over inconsistencies in their reports. The MPs questioned State Minister of Finance, Aston Kajara over the criteria used by the ministry to select Enterprise Uganda and DFCU bank to disburse the 25 billion shillings allocated for youth […]
Officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were today grilled by MPs on the Defense and Internal Affairs over delay in implementing the National Identity Card project. The project overseen by German company, Mulbauer Technologies will see at least 5 million Ugandans receive national IDs. The MPs are concerned that the project has lagged behind. […]
MPs on the committee of gender and social development are concerned that government continues to allocate money for resettling street children. The ministry of gender during this financial year requested for over 1.5 billion shillings to resettle the street kids and 500 million shillings for rehabilitating the children in rehabilitation and remand centers. But the […]
The minister of gender labour and social development Hajjat Syda Bumba together with her junior ministers have been summoned to appear before the committee of gender, labour and social development in parliament on Tuesday next week. According to the committee boss Nokrach William with the committee members, Bumba and her juniors should appear before the […]
The Parliament of Uganda says that it is waiting the directive of the Auditor General to cause MPs who got NAADS monitoring 20 million shillings each to account for the money which some had seen as a bribe to MPs by government. The parliament’s Public Relations officer Helen Kawesa said that parliament has no mandate […]
Legislatures in the 9th parliament have reacted cautiously to reports that their colleagues of the last 8th parliament have established an association to push for development of the country. Last week over 60 former MPs association headed by Bundibugyo woman MP Jane Alisemera has also opened an office and appointed the speaker of parliament Rebecca […]
The Parliament of Uganda has approved the nomination of two members to represent Uganda in the Pan African Parliament. Uganda is expected to elect five members in total from its Parliament to constitute its legislative representation in the continental assembly. MPs Cecilia Ogwal (opposition) and Otada Sam (Independent) were unanimously approved Thursday July 21 by […]
The Speaker of Parliament Hon Rebecca Kadaga is to put in place a special desk in her office that will handle complaints from Parliamentary staff who cannot express themselves to their immediate bosses when there sexually harassed by their fellow staff. Kadaga’s Concern followed the complaints raised by Parliamentary Female staff under their umbrella […]