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Budget Committee wants firm policy on cargo handling

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Committee on Budget want a firm policy position on ground handling services at Entebbe International Airport. The legislators were on Friday, 20 January 2023 scrutinising a report of the Committee on Physical Infrastructure on the budget framework paper for the …

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MPs probe existence of cracks in Lotis Towers

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The parliamentary committee on infrastructure has started an investigation into the state of Lotis towers. Last month, cracks on the 14-storied building were first spotted in one of the building’s pillars on level six by concerned tenants. The National Buildings Review Board-NBRB recommended occupants vacate …

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MPs task gov’t to procure road equipment for new districts

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Physical Infrastructure Committee have tasked the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to provide funds to procure road maintenance equipment for the new districts. The committee recommends that the 60 billion Shillings that was allocated for the construction of …

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Theft of materials slowing progress on critical oil roads – Kagina

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The massive theft of road construction materials is slowing progress on the oil roads in the Albertine graben, according to the Executive Director of the Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA, Allen Kagina. The earmarked oil roads measure 97 kilometres in Hoima, Buliisa, Masindi and Kikuube districts. …

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Government names 60 agencies to be merged

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has listed its agencies, commissions and authorities that were approved for mergers or being transferred back to their mother ministries as departments or directorates. David Karubanga, the Minister of State for Public Service told journalists at the Uganda Media Centre that a team that …

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Gov’t plans law to facilitate merger, disbandment of agencies

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The government has proposed to have an omnibus law that will facilitate the merger and disbandment of agencies created by Acts of Parliament and those that are constitutional. This is carried in a statement by the Minister of State for Public Service, David Karubanga presented …

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Bisaka’s body preserved for future viewing

Kagadi, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The body of the late Desteo Owobusobozi Bisaka, the Founder of Faith of Unity has been embalmed and kept for future viewing by his followers. The body has been kept in Bisaka’s house in Kapyeemi cell in Muhorro town Council in Kagadi district. Embalming is …

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MPs disagree on regulations for judges on special assignments

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Parliament has failed to pass the Administration of Judiciary Bill, 2018 following a disagreement among the legislators provision for judicial officers seconded, appointed and assigned duties outside the judiciary.  The Bill seeks to provide for powers and administrative independence of the Judiciary. The Bill specifically …

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Ex-Obote Minister Peter Otai to be accorded State burial

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT | Peter Iloot Otai, the former Minister of State for Defense in Milton Obote’s government will be accorded an official burial. Otai, 79, died in London on of January 2nd. He has been in exile since 1980’s when the National Resistance Army, NRA took overpower. …

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