Tag Archives: Nathan Nandala Mafabi

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bugisu Cooperative Union has earmarked 5.1 billion Shillings to turn Musundi House building in Mbale into a 5-star hotel. The building, one of the oldest and tallest in the Central Business District will be renovated and changed from a commercial building to a state of the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Parliament has approved the amendment of the National Medical Stores-NMS and National Drug Authority-NDA acts.  This follows Parliament’s adoption of the Public Accounts Committee- PAC Central Government report on the findings of the Auditor-General on the Health Sector for the financial years 2016/2017 to 2019/2020.  In …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Frederick Ngobi Gume, the Minister of State for Cooperatives has advised the Board of Bugisu Cooperative Union-BCU to take legal action against John Wamulugwa, the former BCU Board chairperson over his continuous malicious petitions against the union leadership.  Speaking during the BCU Annual General Meeting …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Nathan Nandala Mafabi, the Budadiri West Member of Parliament has distanced himself from the decision by the Bugisu Parliamentary caucus asking the Gender and Cultural Affairs Minister to gazette Jude Mike Mudoma as the new Bamasaba cultural leader.    This comes almost a week after Ignatius …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has given a three-day ultimatum to the Judiciary to provide accountability for over 20.74 billion Shillings spent in the financial year 2018/2019. On Monday, the Permanent Secretary/Secretary to the Judiciary Pius Bigirimana and officials from the Judiciary appeared before PAC …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Members of  the Public Accounts Committee-PAC of Parliament have tasked the Judiciary to set heavy sanctions for judicial officers who delay judgements and those that abandon duty. This was during a Monday meeting with officials from the Judiciary led by the Permanent Secretary Pius Bigirimana. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Judiciary has extended the roll-out date for the much anticipated digital case tracking system. It is now set to begin in May, a two months’ delay from the initial dates. The Judiciary Permanent Secretary Pius Bigirimana today told Parliament that the nine billion Shillings …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change- FDC party has suspended its campaigns in the Eastern region after Patrick Amurait, the party’s presidential candidate was hospitalized.  Amurait was admitted at Bugiri hospital on Monday after he was pepper-sprayed by police.  He was heading to Tororo district through …

Soroti, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   The Forum for Democratic Change- FDC Presidential Candidate, Patrick Amuriat Oboi has said that persons pushing for regime change in Uganda should focus on two folds; the Ballot and Plan B, whose details she did not divulge.  Amuriat made the appeal from Soroti, where …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Government has withdrawn the Income Tax (Amendment) (No.2) Bill, 2020, which sought to provide for the deduction of an equal amount of money to the donations by tax payers to the COVID19 National Task Force on Covid-19 while filing their tax returns. The move followed …