Author: Johnson Thembo

The East African Development Bank hosted two events to develop the East African extractives industry in Nairobi in August 2019. From the 2nd to 3rd August, the East African Development Bank hosted Permanent Secretaries and other senior government officials from across East Africa to a workshop that offered capacity building in better negotiating contracts pertaining to natural resource management in the extractives industries. Lawyers from DLA Piper implemented the workshop. From the 5th to the 9th August, the EADB will host public sector lawyers and legal professionals to a second workshop that will also provide capacity building in better negotiating…

He quit his job from mainstream media to go undertake his activism work with Pats Journal – The Albinism News Network an online story telling platform where people come to discover, learn and share inspiring stories of persons with albinism and those making a difference around the world. Here Larubiservices as Director Communications and Head of Strategies besides working as a freelance travel and events photographer, video producer and a disability right activist. In a one on one interview with the press Larubi shares how and why he became an advocate, what he loves about his new role and what…

Egocentric demands are nothing new on Hollywood sets but producers of the Fast & Furious franchise have revealed its stars have gone so far as to refuse to lose fights against one another. Members of the team behind the movie series told the Wall Street Journal (paywall) that actors including Jason Statham, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Vin Diesel have contract demands that limit the amount of punishment their characters take in fights. Diesel, who has been with the long-running franchise from the beginning, reportedly devised a complicated rating system tallying how many times each actor was kicked, punched or headbutted to ensure violence was being doled…

Ndorwa East MP, Hon Wilfred Niwagaba has sought the leave of Parliament to table a Constitution Amendment Bill which seeks to scrap the position of Vice President and Prime Minister, among a cocktail of other proposals. The objects of the Constitution Amendment Bill 2019, outlines its ambitious intentions. Key in the proposed amendments is the creation of the position of Deputy President, who unlike the current provision in article 99 of the Constitution will be chosen by a candidate for president as a running-mate. The Deputy President proposed will swallow up the Office of the Prime Minister and be the…

The State Minister for Kampala Capital City Authority, Hon Benny Namugwanya, has announced that government is abandoning the proposal to have the Kampala Lord Mayor voted for by councillors. Minister Namugwanya’s position is in support of the report by the Committee on Presidential Affairs, which in its recommendations on the contentious Kampala Capital City Authority (Amendment) Bill, rooted for the scrapping of the proposal. “Government has reconsidered its position on the issue of election of the Lord Mayor by councillors…we are maintaining the position in the current law in the spirit of not disenfranchising the people of Kampala,” said Namugwanya.…

Parliament has laid down available inducements by government meant to attract Turkish and other foreign investors to the country. The Chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Hon. Hood Katuramu, told members of the Turkish private sector that they can benefit from the huge incentives in place to invest in various fields including oil and gas, tourism, construction and agro-processing. “In order to attract investors to the above sectors, government has put in place various initiatives and incentives to ensure a favourable environment in Uganda,” he said. Katuramu made the remarks at the start of the Uganda – Turkey Business,…

The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has called for faster resolution of the Tororo Municipality boundary conflict. Kadaga said she will put government under pressure to ensure that the London report on the boundary map is made public. Last year, a delegation comprising government representatives, legislators and the local leadership of Tororo district were in the United Kingdom to establish the contested boundary between the Iteso and Jopadhola. The report however, has not been made public. “When they came back, the minister failed to issue the report. I called her to tell the House what was discovered, she said ‘it…

The President of the Republic of Uganda and Commander-in-Chief of UPDF Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has told 203 newly commissioned Ugandan Officers that they should consider themselves fortunate to be part of the officer corps in a force that has made significant contribution to the wellbeing of their motherland and the region. “Consider being commissioned as officers of the UPDF as a very rear opportunity. UPDF is a force that was historically needed in Uganda, otherwise Uganda would have by now disintegrated. UPDF was able to reverse the declining Uganda because of our Ideology, strategy and discipline. Without any money…

The President of the Republic of Uganda and Commander-in-Chief of UPDF Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has told 203 newly commissioned Ugandan Officers that they should consider themselves fortunate to be part of the officer corps in a force that has made significant contribution to the wellbeing of their motherland and the region. “Consider being commissioned as officers of the UPDF as a very rear opportunity. UPDF is a force that was historically needed in Uganda, otherwise Uganda would have by now disintegrated. UPDF was able to reverse the declining Uganda because of our Ideology, strategy and discipline. Without any money…

The Ministry of Public Service has presented a supplementary request to the Finance Ministry aimed at reducing the salary disparity in the Uganda Police Force. According to the Minister of State for Public Service, Hon. David Karubanga, the approval of the request will see the rise in salary of police officers with different qualifications. “The salary of an arts based superintendent of police will be raised to a figure of shs225 million in the financial year 2019/2020, as the disparity in pay is progressively reduced,” said Karubanga. Karubanga made the revelation while responding to concerns by Hon. Adong Lilly (IND,…