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By Annah Natukunda One nurse is expected to care for 100 acutely sick patients as ministry loses Shs400 million per year on “ghost” workers You get up! Go and sit outside,” orders a man dressed in light blue trousers and a white shirt with a Mulago Hospital staff ID. He …

By Agather Atuhaire To have your cabinet short of 10 ministers in less than one year because of corruption related issues is something to be worried about. The Public Accounts Committee report on the compensation of Basajjabalaba’s Haba group and col. Mugyeni’s Rhino group has led to the resignation of  …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Parliamentary intervention in government contracts has been consistently counterproductive because MPs do not look at all sides (…continued from last week) I argued in this column last week that parliamentary intervention stopping the signing of oil contracts is likely to make a bad situation worse. First, …

By Mwambutsya Ndebesa Why the Banyakole say ogwakijungu gwita  otagireyo,  meaning the white colonial master only punishes those who do not show up Uganda has some of the best designed policies in Africa but some of the worst implementation record on the continent. Whether it is agricultural, fiscal, decentralisation, health, …

By Peter Nyanzi What moral authority will this Parliament have to demand that other departments handle public funds thriftily? Twenty six years ago when President Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement government captured power, they won acclaim for condemning the profligacy of the previous regimes, which had made those in power …

By Haggai Matsiko Corporation is sinking as former star manager faces probe The news out of Plot 39 Jinja Road, the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) head office in Kampala, is not good. In several interviews with The Independent, top officials of the corporation have sought to allay widespread …

By Andrew M. Mwenda We should be suspicious of parliamentary interventions in lucrative government contracts because they often make a bad situation worse Recently, President Yoweri Museveni ordered government of Uganda officials to sign oil Production Sharing Agreements with companies. This was in spite of a resolution by parliament stopping …

By Andrew M. Mwenda After charging Agaba and Komakech with murder, will KCCA be able to bite again? The near unanimous public condemnation of former KCCA director of planning, George Agaba and his bodyguard, Santos Komakech has caused them to be charged with murder before investigation. Their crime was video …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Poor farmers at Shs 2.5bn Tarehe Sita event complain that medals without money were not enough given the role they played in the liberation war On the eve of the Feb.6 Army Day, Tarehe Sita, as President Yoweri Museveni drove to Kyondo Parish in Kasese district …

By Miriam Mukama Cases might be lower than those of lung or breast cancer but this cancer is growing at a quicker rate Annet Nakawesa, 30, woke up on a hot day, eight months ago feeling fatigued. She realised she had swollen bumps around her neck. Thinking it was a …