Author: Johnson Thembo
The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive Director, Andrew Kitaka has admitted that the Authority wrongfully made contributions to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) for some top staff who are entitled to gratuity. Kitaka who was responding to a whistleblowers petition to the Speaker about loss of funds by the Authority, before House Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) however said that they had stopped the payments to NSSF. The meeting between KCCA staff and the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises was held on Tuesday 17 March 2020. In the petition, the whistleblower said…
MTN Uganda has unveiled a new offer that will allow Ugandans to send Mobile Money up to 30,000/-,at no cost for the next 30 days in a move to minimize the physical exchange of paper money. The offer is meant to reduce the risk of transmission ofcovid-19 that has paralysed daily life across the world. Alongside this offer, the company has also launcheda data bundle that will enable customers to work from home. Dubbed ‘Work from home’, the data bundle is meant to promote the concept of ‘social distancing’ while reducing the anticipated negative impact that limited movement and contact…
The committee on Defence and Internal Affairs will carry out an audit on all detention centres and police stations to ascertain the state of sanitation facilities. The directive by the Speaker Rebecca Kadaga followed an outcry from legislators that detention centres like police stations were still using the bucket systemyet government had promised to phase it out. “I want the committee on Defence and Internal Affairs to carry out an audit of all sanitary facilities in places of detention; police stations and prisons,” Kadaga said. The Speaker called on the Committee to consider the conditions in these detention centres as…
Uganda’s leading digital transport service provider SafeBoda has again pioneered another poverty eradication drive aimed at empowering local small scale entrepreneurs. With the inspiration driven from their mission, “To empower local entrepreneurs to thrive, by driving the adoption of technology especially in the informal sector.” SafeBoda has successfully pioneered the local food delivery just like they championed the move of professionalizing the boda boda industry. In one on one interview with Ms. Brenda Nambatya the Head of Food Marketing, food will be ordered on the already existing platform implying there will not be need to download another application. “Our entire…
Veteran opposition Politician Dr. Kizza Besigye has his Monday after in Sheema District, western Uganda. The former presidential aspirant was meeting executive members of VIVA (Village to Village Associations) formed in the area to work as a campaign task force to bring president Museveni and his agents like Hon. Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Elioda Tumwesigye down come 2021. Sheema district has 15 VIVAs that are operational but Besigye met members Migina, Kiziba, Itendero Town Council, Rwenshama, Kihunda, Kanyina Sheema, Nyakashambya, Kashozi West, Kashozi East, Kabwohe Ward, Kigarama, and Masheruka Town Council VIVA executive members. FDC established VIVA groups…
MTN Uganda has contributed shs50million towards the Stanbic Bank National schools championship project. The National Championship project is an annual Stanbic initiative that seeks to equip secondary school students with business and enterprise skills in a bid to nurture entrepreneurship, creativity and long term business thinking. Sem Somdev, MTN Uganda’s chief marketing officer said the initiative by Stanbic is commendable as it helps prepare the students for a bright future which will ultimately be good for the nation. “The actions we take today will determine the outcomes of tomorrow. This has to be deliberate because things don’t just happen automatically.…
Captain Mike Mukula, the National Resistance Movement-NRM party vice chairperson for eastern Uganda says after 35 years of President Yoweri Museveni Uganda should have a leader who doesn’t hail from Western Uganda. Speaking to URN, Mukula said although he’s not sectarian, he believes that for purposes of balanced development and sustainable peace, the next president should come from another region other than western Uganda where Museveni comes from. Mukula was reacting to the news of Lt Gen. Henry Tumukunde to take on President Museveni in the coming elections. “It is his constitutional right and I don’t have a problem about…
By Citizen Uganda Police has resolved to have the salutation “sir” from the title of women officers dropped in a raft of new reforms. The police bosses will also address the issue of gender inequality after it came to the fore that Ugandan policewomen have been wearing trousers designed for their male counterparts. The new police reforms will also see police women in Uganda get a shot at top positions in proposed promotions. Uganda has also abolished standing orders that were last amended in 1984 and which required female officers to seek permission from the Inspector General if they wished…
Today airtel Uganda and Buganda Kingdom have officially launched the 2020 Kabaka birthday run kits. Speaking during the event at Mengo Bulange, Airtel managing director VG Somasekhar encouraged all Ugandans to keep their 5th April free and ensure that we kick HIV out of Uganda. “After 6 years, going into our 7th year, we want to ensure that everybody can participate and contribute to the cause of eliminating AIDS in Uganda this year. The Kabaka Run has a lot of significance not for the affinity but the causes that the kingdom serves. This year the responsibility is on men. To…
Kasilo County MP, Hon Elijah Okupa has raised dust before the August House after proposing a move to have academic qualifications for local leaders reviewed. Speaking during plenary on Wednesday afternoon, Okupa proposed that minimum qualifications of Advanced level(Senior six leaver) for councilors and chairpersons of municipal councils, town councils, city division councils and sub county councils, a move that raised a lot of mixed reactions. Commenting on the same matter, Hon Muhammad Nsereko stated that we need people who can lead their people and also understand why they need to lead them. “Do we drop qualifications at Sub County…