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Sittings in Uganda’s Parliament are sometimes peppered with some drama and fun. The latest of such moments is contained in a video in which a female MP has been captured on camera while massaging two male colleagues.
Uganda’s State House will spend its Shs 454 billion budget on 20 items in the next financial year (FY 2023-2024). A breakdown of these items indicates where the official residence of Uganda’s President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni will spend how much.
Activists have been sending messages of support to one of their own after she was thrown out of a house she has been calling home in Kisaasi in Kampala. The activist has been famous for fearlessly exposing governance and accountability issues in Uganda’s Parliament, one of the third arms of government superintended over by Speaker Anita Annet Among.
WHAT HAPPENED TO CLOTHES TAX PAYERS BOUGHT MUSEVENI LAST YEAR? A revelation that State House included Shs350m in its budget request for the FY2023-2024 to buy 78-year-old long-serving Uganda President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni clothes has left many in shock.
Patrick Aloysius Okumu Ringa had some really painful final years despite serving as a Minister in President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s cabinet, Parliament as a representative of the people, and as a businessman.
Kabuye Kyofatogabye, the Minister of State (junior) for Kampala Capital City and Metropolitan Affairs has spoken out on allegations that he had threatened Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago. On May 11, the Lord Mayor told Parliament’s Physical Infrastructure Committee that he believed his life was in danger after receiving a text message from Minister Kyofatogabye.
UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima has explained why Uganda’s president Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni must not assent to the recently passed Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government has made it clear that it will not increase salaries for medical officers special grade, also referred to as associate consultant doctors, as well as Senior House Officers (SHOs) who have laid down their tools over pay-related grievances.
Uganda’s Judiciary has warned weed (ganja/mairungi/marijuana) smokers against misinterpreting a recent Constitutional Court decision in favour of ganja planters under the Wakiso Miraa Growers and Dealers Association Limited.