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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Leader of Opposition Mathias Mpuuga has queried the allocation of funds in the budget towards deemed energy, describing the funds as very disturbing. Mpuuga’s statement was in response to a report by Parliament’s Natural Resources Committee on the budget estimates for the Energy and Mineral …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mengo Magistrates Court has summoned the officer in Charge of Luzira Maximum Security Upper Prison to come and assist in establishing whether jailed lawyer Male Mabirizi can be given internet, typing and printing services. According to the summons issued by Grade One Magistrate Joanita Muwanika, …

Omoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Opposition is mooting plans to nominate a joint candidate to contest with the National Resistance Movement party candidate in the Omoro county parliamentary by-election. This comes a day after President Museveni picked 32-year-old Andrew Ojok Oulanyah, the eldest son of the former legislator and Speaker …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security personnel attached to the Aviation Police at Entebbe International Airport have so far intercepted 15 victims of human trafficking destined for Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Oman in the last week. A report brief to police headquarters and the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anti-human trafficking department …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Workers representative Arinaitwe Rwakajara has been granted leave of Parliament to introduce a private member’s bill intended to streamline the administration and operations of the Parliamentary Pensions Scheme. Rwakajara who is also the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Pensions Scheme board of trustees was granted leave during …

Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A land broker in Mukono district has been remanded over forgery. It is alleged that Kiwanuka and others still at large in June 2021, with the intention to defraud forged the land sales agreement for land in Kyaggwe county belonging to the late Sarah Rosemary Mulira. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Committee on Presidential Affairs has called on government to provide an additional Shs11.6 billion in next financial year’s budget to support Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) upgrade slums. Legislators are concerned that despite the mushrooming slums in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area, only Shs0.5 billion …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pierre Mbabazi Nyetegyereize, the lead petitioner against the election of Rev. Gad Akanjuna, as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Kigezi has withdrawn the petition. Akanjuna, the Archdeacon of All Saints Church in Kabale municipality was elected in February by the House of Bishops to …

Wakiso, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kakiri town council in Wakiso district has launched a tree-planting campaign to restore the degraded Nonve Central Forest Reserve. The forest reserve that is under the National Forest Authority-NFA was destroyed by individuals who have partly constructed buildings, planted eucalyptus as well as acquired land titles …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 10 families are on the verge of being evicted after the Court of Appeal ruled on a land dispute in Kyanja, Kawempe division. On Tuesday, Justice Elizabeth Musoke, Catherine Bamugemereire, and Stephen Musota ruled that the one-acre piece of land along Komamboga road in Kyanja belongs …