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Ugandan President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023, State House has confirmed, making it clear that the piece of legislation has now become law: The Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023.
In what is being described as a justification that politics in impoverished Uganda pays, the country’s tax payers will spend tens of billions on the Speaker of Parliament, Anita Annet Among, and her deputy, Thomas Tayebwa, in the next financial year (FY2023-2024), figures from the recently passed budget have indicated.
Risking being misunderstood by both members of the Ugandan opposition that usually see no positive achievement in Museveni’s government and the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) propagandists that would use his statements to claim that he has ‘eaten something,’ firebrand Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) spokesperson and Kira Municipality MP Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda has revealed one thing the elderly general from Rwakitura has done well.
PARLIAMENT — Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa has blamed the current expired courses crisis on misuse of strong words and directed National Council for Higher Education to declassify ‘expired’ courses as “under review”.
Ugandan First Lady and Education and Sports Minister Janet Kataaha Kainembabazi Museveni or any of her three junior ministers is expected to inform the nation on the fate of expired university courses or academic programs and degrees after a revelation that has put the quality of the country’s higher education and the seriousness of administrators in a questionable state.
A Ugandan Member of Parliament (MP) and former minister in President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s cabinet has cried out to security agencies for help after she received anonymous messages from a group of rogue and ‘rebel’ security officers threatening to harm her if she does not give them money and push for improvement in their welfare.
More than 20 organisations advocating for better mental health services across the country staged camp in the parliamentary gardens for two days. The mental health Goliath had to be stoned down.
A Ugandan opposition MP has reported death threats from a rogue group of ‘tired’ security officers. In an anonymous letter, the group gave the female lawmaker three days within which to pay them Shs10m or wait to take four bullets.
Karamoja Affairs Minister Dr Mary Goretti Kitutu may be out of prison but is not yet uhuru. Her involvement in the iron sheets (mabaati) scandal is said to have had an impact on her reputation in the districts of Manafwa, Namisindwa and the rest of Bugisu as well as at national level.