Ministers Balaam Barugahara and Justine Nameere have spent the past few days touring Mbale and Bulambuli, catching civil servants off guard and ordering arrests on the spot. Ghost workers and pupils have been uncovered. A headteacher was arrested for allegedly inflating pupil numbers while a district engineer was remanded over a bridge built with black…
Members of Parliament have urged the government to negotiate stronger bilateral agreements on labour externalisation following a recent BBC documentary highlighting the plight of Ugandan girls subjected to sex slavery in the United Arab Emirates UAE). The documentary, titled Death in Dubai, revealed the tragic deaths of two Ugandan girls who suffered perverse sexual assaults…
Atkins Godfrey Katusabe, the MP for Bukonzo West in Kasese district, has won a legal battle against telecom giant, MTN, after it deactivated his simcard due to what it called discrepancies in his indentification documents. Katusabe is the husband to Sarah Opendi, the vocal woman MP for Tororo. Justice David S.L. Makumbi of the High…
Sarah Opendi, the Woman MP for Tororo, has publicly criticized Dr. Tanga Odoi, the chairperson of the NRM Electoral Commission, for alleged bias and lack of transparency in managing the party’s primary elections in Tororo. Opendi claims that despite winning NRM primaries since 2011, she has never been declared a winner under Odoi’s leadership, with…
It will take the government 12 years to clear outstanding domestic arrears of Shs 13.8 trillion, a report by the committee on Finance, Planning and Economic Development has revealed. The report presented by the committee’s Deputy Chairperson, Moses Aleper, said domestic arrears had increased from Shs 10.5 trillion in the 2022/2023 financial year to Shs…
