While meeting members of the Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) in Apire Parish, Aduku Sub County, over the weekend, Okae criticized NRM leaders in the district as incompetent and propagandists who have failed to deliver essential services to the community.
Kazoora said he never mined a lower of higher rank in the army because when he went to the bush, he never set out to be in the army apart from fighting for freedom
“The truth is that while I’m here I’m not supposed to make … but Soroti regional referral hospital is sick,” said Ecweru, noting that most of his constituents are referred to the hospital located in the heart of Soroti City.
Irene Muloni was at the Ministry when the government secured a $212 (763 billion) loan from the Exim Bank of China to extend electricity to sub counties.
Speaking at a press conference held on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, at Parliament, the Leader of the Opposition, Joel Ssenyonyi, and the Shadow Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Jonathan Odur called for urgent accountability on the matter.
In the petition dated April 3, 2025, a copy of which was obtained by Uganda Radio Network (URN), Bwanga referenced a resolution passed by Parliament on April 28, 2020, which approved the creation of 15 new cities, with a timeline to operationalize all of them by July 1, 2023.
Erute County South MP Jonathan Odur led the criticism, challenging the ODPP’s transparency and efficiency. He demanded a comprehensive report on cases received, sanctioned, recommended for further investigation, or closed.
According to the Sexual Offences Bill, 2024, persons convicted of sexual offences will have their data registered with the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA).
The Minister of State for Finance – General Duties, Henry Musasizi on Thursday tabled before Parliament the Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025 seeking to among others, exempt textile inputs from Value Added Tax (VAT).
The biggest portion of the funding in the Bill is allocated to; the State House, with 374 billion Shillings in recurrent allocations, 189 billion for the Ministry of Defense, 137 billion for security, 16 billion for foreign missions, and 152 billion for National Council of Sports.
The proposal is embedded in the Tax Procedures Code (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which was presented before Parliament by Henry Musasizi, the State Minister for Finance.
The amount contradicts an earlier figure of US Dollars 190.9 million, approximately 700.2 billion Shillings that the government had requested for the UMEME Buyout which Parliament appropriated.
The matter was raised during a plenary sitting on Thursday, March 20, 2025, chaired by Speaker Anita Among. Kira Municipality MP, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, questioned the delay, noting that Igara East MP Michael Mawanda had been sworn in within 24 hours of his election victory.
According to the Auditor General’s report and an analysis by the Uganda Debt Network (UDN), Uganda’s public debt has surged from USD 35.1 billion in FY2018/19 to USD 46.8 billion in FY2023/24—an alarming 104% increase in just six years.
Ibrahim Ssemujju, the Kira Municipality solely authored the Minority Report, urging Parliament to reject the supplementary budget. Ssemujju objected to several allocations, including Shs298 billion for Lubowa Hospital, Shs115 billion for Atiak Sugar Factory, Shs367 billion for State House, Shs67 billion to Nelson Tugemu for marketing Uganda’s coffee, and Shs725.42 billion for the Umeme buy-out.
According to the Auditor General's report, out of the 80.669 billion Shillings earmarked for disbursement in 2024, only 66.506 billion had reached women entrepreneurs, despite their struggles to access affordable capital.
“The unrestrained conduct of security agents is a blatant attack on independent journalism, endangers legitimate civic participation in legal political activities, and undermines access to information that is vital for voters to exercise their constitutional rights,” said Dr George Lugalambi, ACME’s executive director.
