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About four years ago, Robert Mwesigwa Rukaari, the current representative of Uganda’s entrepreneurs on the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), secured a loan to the tune of nearly Shs1bn from Gerald Kalungi, son to city tycoon Godfrey Kirumira.
The Minister of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija, has defended himself, saying he is “innocent” in the Karamoja iron sheets scandal that has sucked in several ministers.
BRUSSELS – The Deputy Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has rallied developing countries to jointly reject what he described as unfair trade and deceitful practices orchestrated by the European Union against others countries.
Parliament has granted leave to Bugiri Municipality Member of Parliament Asuman Basalirwa to introduce a private member’s Bill titled the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023.
“I administratively referred the petition to the committee and I gave them two weeks to report back to the House,” said Among. “I saw iron sheets in Bukedea; I didn’t ask for them but I ordered that they should be given to government schools, innocently. I didn’t open a shop to sell them. Let’s wait for the committee report and this House will take a decision.”
Emmanuel Omoding, son to former MP Patrick Okabe, has been elected Serere County MP, replacing his father who died in December 2022.
Main opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine has finally spoken out on the release of party MPs Allan Ssewanyana of Makindye West and Muhammad Ssegirinya of Kawempe North, and allegations that the opposition group’s leaders negotiated their freedom with President and NRM National Chairman Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni.
A Ugandan activist of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) has called for amendments to the central bank law to allow the printing of President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s portrait photo on all currency notes.
Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LoP) Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba, has threatened to sue Monitor Publications Limited, which runs The Daily Monitor, over a story on his alleged engagement in secret talks with an official in President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government to cause the release on bail of National Unity Platform (NUP) MPs Muhammad Ssegirinya of Kawempe North and Allan Ssewanyana of Makindye West.