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Legislators want certificates of teachers found guilty of sexual violence canceled. The MPs were responding to the report from the select committee that inquired into allegations of sexual violence in institutions of learning in Uganda during plenary sitting on Wednesday, 27 March 2019. Hon. Kassiano Wadri (Ind. Arua Municipality) said that institutions of learning should be made safe for learners. “The report named three teachers from a school in my constituency as perpetrators, it is a shame. Investigations should be conducted and perpetrators brought to book,” said Kassiano Wadri. Hon. Jovah Kamateeka (NRM, Mitooma) advised the Ministry of Education to…
Members of Parliament have learnt with shock that the ownership of Uganda Airlines, which is being revived by government, is shrouded in mystery. In its report on a Supplementary Appropriation Bill for Parliament’s consideration, the Committee on Budget said government owned a paltry two out of 2 million shares leaving over 1.9 million shares in the hands of unknown individuals. The schedule before Parliament includes Shs280b to be paid for the first batch of the Bombardier CRJ900 aircrafts to be used by the national carrier. Committee Chairperson, Amos Lugoloobi, spelled doom with the revelation. “The government of Uganda has injected…
Members of Parliament have tasked government to put in place safety and health measures to check relief food provided to communities. The MPs raised the concern following a case of suspected food poisoning in Karamoja sub-region that has left four people dead and over 260 persons hospitalised. According to the State Minister for Health, Hon Joyce Moriku, the ministry received an alert about suspected food poisoning from surveillance teams in Karamoja, with subsequent investigations indicating that affected persons consumed World Food Programme (WFP) Super Cereal (CSB +). The Minister said that only two districts of Napak and Amudat had been…
The Uganda Police Force has regretted their initial media release of Sunday, 24th March 2019, surrounding the drive by threats by Hon. Idah Nantaba which was not totally accurate. Speaking to the media, CP Fred Enanga the police spokesperson stated that the true facts are that on Sunday, 24th March, 2019 the Hon. Minister Idah Nantaba while buying fruits at a roadside market around Ssinda, located 6 km after Sezibwa bridge, saw a motor cycle rider, who from her instincts, appeared to be a dangerous person. The rider who was inquiring about the location of Kabimbiri, immediately after sped off…
President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Kaguta Museveni have expressed satisfaction with the level of cooperation between Kenya and Uganda in areas of mutual benefit. Addressing the press at State House, Mombasa, after the two Heads of State led their delegations in bilateral talks, President Kenyatta commended the two delegations for ensuring that the inaugural session of the Joint Commission for Cooperation is a success. “I am particularly pleased with the progress we’ve made in recent years in the areas of trade promotion, the free movement of goods, services and people across our borders, and the people-to-people interactions,”…
Members of Parliament investigating the compensation of Ugandan traders in South Sudan are disappointed to note that the list of traders approved by Parliament for payment was inaccurate. MPs learnt that the list of 23 traders with unsettled claims provided by the Ministry of Finance to Parliament does not match with the original list verified by the Trade Ministry. The revelation was made on Tuesday, 26 March 2019 as the Minister of Trade, Industry and Co-operatives, Hon Amelia Kyambadde, appeared before the select committee investigating the payments. Kyambadde told Parliament that her ministry verified 36 traders with unsettled claims not…
Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah’s ex-wife is battling a case in US court where she was sued by a Ugandan lady for allegedly flouting labour laws.Ladywinnie Amoo says that she gave accommodation to a Ugandan lady identified as Rosette Nsonga from Bugiri who was a good friend to her mother. However, the lady in turn sued her for reportedly hiring her as a maid without pay or food. Nsonga is now demanding for $218,000 (over Shs800m) in damages. Amoo who is a mother of two daughters whom she sired with Oulanyah before their divorce posted her ordeal on Facebook on how…
Equity Bank (U) Ltd and the DYNAMIC (Driving Youth-led Agribusiness and Microenterprise) program in their continued quest for financial inclusion have launched a partnership to bring access to formal financial services closer to the youth through Equity Bank’s agency banking and digital finance model. This was announced by the Equity Bank Uganda Executive Director Mr. Anthony Kituuka, Jennifer Williams Country Director, GOAL Uganda and the DYNAMIC Program Director Netsaalem Gebrie at a media conference in Kampala on Wednesday. DYNAMIC is one of the Mastercard Foundation’s Youth Forward Initiative being implemented by a consortium partners led by GOAL Uganda, Mercy Corps,…
A parliamentary minority report on the supplementary schedule where government is seeking an additional Shs280bn to cater for investment costs of the revival of the new Uganda Airlines, has revealed that government owns only 0.0001% of the shares in Uganda Airlines. Joy Atim Ongom, Lira Distirct Woman MP on Tuesday presented a minority report defying the majority committee of Budget report that has been scrutinizing government’s request for an additional Shs280bn for purchasing the 6 planes. In the minority report that will be debated today along with the committee report, Ongom said that government of Uganda is the least shareholder…
Uganda operates with only 8 nephrologists (kidney doctors) and two dialysis centres to cater for the rising number of kidney related cases. According to Dr. Joseph Gyagenda Ogavu of St Francis Hospital, Nsambya, there are only 8 nephrologists to cater for over 40m Ugandans, 10 physicians who are not trained in nephrology, but assist in offering kidney treatment and only 50 nurses countrywide. Uganda also has only two dialysis centres to cater for kidney patients with one being Mulago Hospital, Kirrudu and Mbarara Referral Hospital. “We have proposed to government a budget of Shs568m to establish a dialysis centre in…