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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker Anita Among has directed the Minister of Health to report to the House within two months on the progress of acquisition of a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test that can help reveal the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Chief Justice, Alfonse Owiny Dollo has revealed that a Jacob Oulanyah Education Trust Fund has been set up to educate the former speaker’s children and others who depended on him. He added that the Fund will be chaired by himself and composed of members like …

 Emerging political powerhouse? Kampala, Uganda | MUBATSI ASINJA HABATI | As people were questioning the ethical and cultural considerations of electing a new speaker of Parliament when the body of the fallen Speaker Jacob Oulanyah was not yet buried let alone even in the country, Anita Among was consolidating her …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Lwemiyaga County MP Theodore Ssekikubo, has protested the decision by the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, to approve Anita Among for the position of Speaker. On Wednesday, the party’s top organ endorsed Among to replace Jacob Oulanyah …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament during plenary on Wednesday, 09 March 2022 unanimously ordered for a forensic audit of the government-owned Soroti Fruit Factory and suspension of its Chief Executive Officer. The audit, to be completed within four weeks, will also cover the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC), the supervisor of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawmakers have demanded that government pronounces herself on the rising prices of essential commodities including soap, sugar, cooking oil and fuel. Raising on a matter of national importance during plenary on Thursday, 10 March 2022, Nakaseke South County MP, Paulson Luttamaguzi said a bar of soap …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament, Francis Zaake will cease being a Parliamentary Commissioner following a vote on motion moved to have him out on grounds of misconduct. In a secret ballot conducted out of 161 members of Parliament, 155 MPs voted to remove Zaake from the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Speaker Anita Among has directed the Auditor General to investigate Exodus, a Uganda Police SACCO after Members of Parliament cited irregularities in its operations. Among said the situation in which police officers were living was bad and that encroaching on their savings called …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has said that the Minister of Finance will not fund the travel budget of Parliament in the next financial year. Among told MPs on Wednesday and accused the Ministry of Finance of trying to stifle the operations of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Rules, Privileges and Discipline Committee of parliament has the jurisdiction to investigate and discipline any legislator for their conduct outside the precincts of the House, the committee chairperson Abdu Katuntu has stated. He delivered the verdict on Wednesday following an objection raised by the …