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  • Heart Institute seeks Shs129 billion for staff recruitment

    Posted: 10 Jan 2023 The continued delay in approval of appropriate staffing structure at the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) is putting lives of 500 children and several other patients with heart related complications at...

  • ‘Prioritise RDCs’ office accommodation’

    Posted: 10 Jan 2023 Members of Parliament have beseeched the Office of the President to prioritise the construction of office accommodation for Resident District Commissioners (RDCs). This arose from the Auditor General...

  • URA to lose Shs2.8 trillion in tax exemptions

    Posted: 10 Jan 2023 The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) may lose Shs2.8 trillion to tax exemptions, credits and deferrals for the financial year 2022/2023. This was revealed by the URA Commissioner General, John...

  • ’Hold accounting officers personally liable for losses’

    Posted: 06 Jan 2023 The Parliament Committee on Public Accounts (Local Government) has recommended that the Secretary to the Treasury (PSST) should hold the accounting officers personally liable, for authorizing...

  • Finance Ministry to investigate delayed salary payments

    Posted: 06 Jan 2023 The Minister of State for Finance (General Duties), Hon. Henry Musasizi has said investigations into non- payment of December salaries for civil servants will be carried.   He said that while the...

  • Parliament to debate ways of curbing road accidents

    Posted: 06 Jan 2023 Legislators will hold a comprehensive debate on how to curb the increasing road accidents which have claimed many lives. In a sitting of the House on Friday, 06 January 2023, the Deputy Speaker,...

  • Select committee to investigate minister Namuganza named

    Posted: 06 Jan 2023 The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa has named a seven member committee to investigate allegations of misconduct against the State Minister for Housing, Hon. Persis Namuganza.   . On...

  • MPs query programme based budgeting

    Posted: 05 Jan 2023 Members of Parliament want the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to explain the recent shift to programme based budgeting from sector based budgeting. The Budget Committee on...

  • Leader of Opposition courts church on constitutional reforms

    Posted: 28 Dec 2022 The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament (LOP), Hon. Mathias Mpuuga, has rallied the church to support efforts by the Opposition to amend the Constitution. Addressing worshippers who turned up for...

  • Finance minister presents Shs 49.9 trillion national budget framework

    Posted: 23 Dec 2022 Government has tabled the National Budget Framework Paper totaling Shs49.9 trillion for the Financial Year 2023/2024. The document, which paves way for the budget approval process by Parliament, was...

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