Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has advised girls that have been skilled in a variety of trades to use the vocational skills that they have acquired from their training to meet the needs of people, which in turn, will make them wealthy and prosperous. The President …
Read More »Why Museveni might not sign new KCCA law
Stage set for battle with Lukwago Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE AND JULIAN SABIITI | KCCA officials and Kampala district MPs are anxious about whether President Yoweri Museveni will assent to the Kampala Capital City Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2019 that parliament has passed. The anxiety is partly because of the …
Read More »Kamya to Museveni: I’ve already delivered Kampala
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Minister Beti Olive Namisango Kamya has told President Museveni that she has already delivered on her pledge to turn Kampala into the support base for the National Resistance Movement-NRM party. Kamya was speaking during the graduation of 8,480 girls and women with …
Read More »KCCA brutality returns to streets
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Scenes of brutal arrest, beatings and manhandling street vendors has re-emerged about three months after the Kampala Minister, Beti Olive Kamya suspended at least seven Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) law enforcement officers for rights violation. Early this week, URN saw KCCA enforcement officers picking …
Read More »KCCA wants 44bn tax arrears written off
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has written to the Minister in charge of Kampala Beti Namisango Kamya requesting that the 44 billion shillings of tax arrears be written off as a bad debt. In a letter dated 3rd July 2019, KCCA Standing Committee on Revenue …
Read More »KCCA passes ordinance to harmonise market operations
Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) has passed an ordinance to harmonize the management of markets in Kampala. | Kampala, Uganda | The Independent | The bill that among others seeks to provide a comprehensive licensing regime for permanent, semi permanent and temporary markets, harmonise market dues and provide a process …
Read More »Kamya praises Musisi for changing the face of Kampala
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala Minister, Beti Olive Kamya has praised Jennifer Musisi, the outgoing Executive Director Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA for transforming the face of the Uganda’s capital. According to Kamya, prior to Musisi’s appointment, the city was dirty and dark, but her entry changed things. Kamya, …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Court adjourns Lukwago, Kamya case to June
Court adjourns Lukwago, Kamya case to June Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The civil division of the high court has set June 11 as the date when the case in which Kampala city Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago accuses Minister for Kampala Beti Kamya of masquerading as the city’s political …
Read More »Minister Kamya asks court to give her a second chance to talk with Lukwago
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The High Court in Kampala has given Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago and Minister in-charge of Kampala Betty Olive Namisango Kamya another chance to explore an amicable settlement of their differences. This after Kamya’s new lawyer MacDusman Kabega informed Justice Wolayo Henreitta that they were unable to meet on April …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Kamya, Nambooze clash over metropolitan area proposals
THIS WEEK: Kamya, Nambooze clash over metropolitan area proposals Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Minister for Kampala Beti Namisango and Mukono Municipality MP Betty Nambooze accused each other of dishonesty and ignorance during a televised talk show on the proposal to expand Kampala to a metropolitan authority. It all started …
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