Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) – Central Government has directed the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Patrick Mugoya to submit a comprehensive report on the state of the country’s missions and properties abroad. The Committee Chaired by Budadiri West MP Nathan Nandala …
Read More »PAC questions Uganda’s failure to absorb international scholarships
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been tasked to explain Uganda’s failure to take up 248 scholarships offered by four foreign countries. The scholarships were offered by Italy, Germany, Belgium and Algeria. The Public Accounts Commitee of Parliament raised the queries in a …
Read More »Immigration officials questioned over UGX 2.8B unpaid debt
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has questioned officials from the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) over their failure to pay a 2.87 billion Shillings debt to a German firm, Muhlbauer High Tech International. The firm was contracted by the government to update the …
Read More »PAC probes immigration staff over performance agreements
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) has been given one-week to present before parliament a list of its staff that declined to sign performance agreements and plans for questioning. The Immigration officials led by the Director Maj. Gen. Kasiita-Gowa were on Friday appearing …
Read More »Gulu university secretary faces dismissal over recruitment scandal
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu University acting Secretary Asaph Adedua faces dismissal following a petition to parliament’s Public Accounts Committee-PAC in regard to the institution’s recruitment exercise during the COVID-19 lockdown. Following the lockdown declared by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to tame the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the …
Read More »PAC investigating police over expenditure on non-budgeted items
Kampala, Uganda| AFP | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is investigating the expenditure of 24.4 billion shillings by the Uganda Police Force on non-budgeted items contrary to the Public Finance Management Act. The matter stems from a June 2019 audit report in which Auditor General John Muwanga queried …
Read More »IPOD urges transparency and accountability in relief distribution process
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Secretaries General of all Political Parties represented in the Interparty Organization for Dialogue (IPOD) have called upon goverenment to excerise transparency and Accountability as they handle relief distribution in the country. These including Forum for Democratic Change FDC’s Nathan Nandala Mafabi, Gerald Blacks Siranda of Democratic Party, …
Read More »PAC summons auditor general, accountant general and IGP over health worker’s uniforms
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Public Accountability Committee-PAC of parliament has summoned the Auditor General, Accountant General and Inspector General of Police-IGP to appear on March 23rd, 2020 in relation to the ongoing investigations into the procurement of medical uniforms by the National Medical Society-NMS. The health worker’s uniforms …
Read More »Finance ministry explains UGX 369.8Bn mischarge of expenditure
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Secretary to Treasury Keith Muhakanzi says that mischarge of expenditure is partly caused by insufficient funding for expenditure on different activities. This is carried in his written response to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC)- Central Government in regard to the audit report on the …
Read More »FDC petitions against military deployment in Hoima
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party has lodged a complaint against the heavy deployment of military personnel in Hoima district ahead of Thursday’s parliamentary elections. The complaint dated Wednesday, September 25, 2019, was authored by FDC Secretary General Nathan Nandala Mafabi and addressed to the …
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