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MPs reject REA budget, task Energy Minister to explain agency merger

By Francis Lubega 21st April 2021 Members of Parliament sitting on the Parliamentary Natural Resource Committee have refused to consider the coming financial year budget for Rural Electrification Agency-REA. This came after the Energy and Mineral Development Minister, Dr. Mary Goretti Kitutu informed the committee that cabinet approved the merger of REA into the Ministry […]

MP Elagu confused over consistent manufacturing, transporting beer yet bars still closed

By Francis Lubega 21st April 2021 The Kaberamaido County Member of Parliament, Veronica Elagu has tasked the government to explain its consistent closure of bars yet beer companies are manufacturing and transporting the products across the country. She says that the continued operation of beer companies contradicts the policies put in place by Ministry of […]

Omoro District Speaker charged of criminal trespass

By Our Report 21st April 2021 The Omoro District Speaker, Damasco Odongo and seven others have been charged with criminal trespass. The eight were arrested by the local community while on their way to a mercury detection mission at Awere Hill in Odek Sub –County. Police from Odek Sub –County rescued them from an angry […]

MPs find UDB violating parliamentary guidelines in lending Covid-19 stimulus funds

By Francis Lubega 20th April 2021 The Parliamentary Finance Committee has noted disappointments by the Uganda Development Bank (UDB) Executive Director Patricia Ojangole for violating the set parliamentary guidelines of lending the Covid-19 stimulus package. UDB has for the last couple of months been criticized for putting unnecessary conditions that cannot be fulfilled by most […]