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Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah, has given the Budget Committee of Parliament up to Friday, 31 February 2020 to present its report on the Budget Framework Paper for consideration and approval. Oulanyah said that the Budget Committee and Parliament must consider the budgeting process within the timelines set out in the House Rules and the Public Finance Management Act. “We are in the budget process. The rules say that by 01 February, the Budget Committee should have reported to this House and we should have approved but that date will be on a day when we are not sitting,” Oulanyah said.…
The National Water and Sewerage Corporation has embarked on a massive customer outreach campaign in all it’s areas of operarion acrosss the country. The “Customer Connect-Tumanyagane” programme was flagged off by the Managing Director Dr. Eng Silver Mugisha in Kampala Nalukolongo zone. According to Dr. Mugisha, the campaign is aimed at;•Sharing the various interventions the corporation is undertaking to improve water supply in the city.•Verifying wether bills are actually being delivered to customers.•Understand and resolve customer challenges.•Check out functionality of installations at the customer’s home among others “This campaign is happening in all our areas of operation. We want to…
Deputy Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah has dismissed reports that circulated on social media in December 2019 claiming he was battling an illness out of the country. “I am well as you can see; I have not fallen sick but probably I will fall sick in future; I do not have an issue as yet,” he said at the start of the plenary sitting on Tuesday, 28 January 2020. Oulanyah’s response was prompted by MP Anthony Akol (FDC, Kilak North), who said he was questioned by constituents during the recent recess on concerns about the Deputy Speaker’s alleged ill-health. “There were issues…
Legislators have rejected a proposal by the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to cut the Electoral Commission’s (EC) budget for the 2021 general elections. The Minister of Finance, Hon Matia Kasaija told MPs on the Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs on 28 January 2020 that the EC’s budget for the elections will be reviewed due to constraints in the treasury. The Minister was appearing before the committee to respond to concerns raised by the EC over a funding shortfall amounting to shs518 billion to conduct all the electoral activities in 2021. “I held a meeting with the…
Parliament has paid tribute to Amina Hersi Morghe, a Kenyan business woman who has invested heavily in Uganda. The parliamentary mention follows her recent receipt of an award, ‘Entrepreneur of the Year Africa 2019’ by European CEO Magazine. Parliament praised Hersi referring to her as a true East African, not only for winning the award but for persistently investing in Uganda and Kenya despite being of Somali origin. She was credited for creating employment for rural women in Northern Uganda who through her Atiak Sugar factory have become out growers. “Amina Hersi formed 3000 women cooperatives in the northern region;…
Former Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant has died after the helicopter he was in crashed on a hillside in the Calabasas area on Sunday morning, the Los Angeles Times reported. Bryant was reportedly in his private helicopter with three other people when it crashed. No one on board the helicopter survived, according to TMZ Sports. TMZ first reported that Bryant died in the crash. Vanessa Bryant was not on the helicopter, according to TMZ. The 41-year-old athlete was one of five occupants who did not survive the fiery incident in the 4200 block of Las Virgenes Road. Authorities have not publicly confirmed his death.
New State minister for Environment Beatrice Anywar says she is not sorry for joining the ruling NRM party or loving President Museveni. Speaking on Saturday while attending the NRM delegates conference at Namboole stadium, Anywar said she misses nothing in opposition. “Many people have changed parties and I have no apologies to make, so why should I apologize anyway, and apologize to who!.” Anywar said. On speaking about NRM resolutions, Anywar said as a Member of Parliament, she is supposed to be ahead of the people she leads citing that, ’Wherever my president is, that is where I have to…
Burundi’s governing party has said Secretary-General Evariste Ndayishimiye will be its candidate in the country’s presidential election scheduled for May. The announcement by the CNDD-FDD party on Sunday came at an extraordinary congress attended by President Pierre Nkurunziza An ally of Nkurunziza, 52-year-old Ndayishimiye also heads the department of military affairs in the president’s office and has served as minister of the interior and security. Nkurunziza, who came to office in 2005, announced in June that he will not seek re-election at the time Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was busy peddling sole candidate campaign to enable rule till death. The 55-year-old was widely expected…
Fred Kajoba has today been unveiled as the new Vipers Football Club head coach. Kajoba who will be deputised by Ibrahim Mugisha replaces Edward Golola who was relieved of his duties on Thursday. Golola was sacked together with his entire technical team. “The club would like to thank Golola and his team for their work during their time at Vipers SC and to wish them success in the future,” reads a statement posted on the club’s website. The sacked technical team members include Ram Nyakana Mpuga (fitness coach), Edward Ssali (second assistant coach), Mathius Kassagga (physiotherapist) and Moses Oloya.
Supreme Court Judge Wilson Kanyeheimba on Friday evening threw a thanks giving dinner that saw different close friends share a meal together. This was aimed at celebrating and thanking God for enabling the highly hailed counsel to survive the deadly illness that narrowly claimed his life. Kanyeihamba was discharged from hospital last week where he had been admitted for almost a fortnight. He was even at one time announced dead by some officials online but it was by the grace of the Lord that he is back on his legs. Among the guests were Kyadondo East Lawmaker Hon. Kyagulanyi Robert…