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Kadaga wants highway toilets constructed

Reporter | November 26, 2014

The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has tasked the Ministry of Works to build public toilets on major highways. Kadaga’s counsel was given on the back drop of plans by government to borrow about 110 million dollars from the Islamic Bank to finance upgrading of the Muyembe-Nakapiririt road in Eastern […]

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S.Sudan MPs refute claims of targeted attacks on Ugandans

Reporter | November 26, 2014

Parliamentarians from South Sudan have dismissed reports that Ugandan traders are being targeted in their country. The MPs, who met with their Ugandan counterparts at Parliament this afternoon, said reports of Ugandans being targeted are false and instead attributed this to growing criminal gangs in Juba. Under the Kampala City […]

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MPs begin probing UMEME bribery claims

Reporter | November 26, 2014

Parliament’s Rules and Privileges Committee has started investigating bribery allegations made against some members in the reports on UMEME. Media reports in Octobers 2013 quoted Kiboga Woman MP Anna Nankabirwa accusing some members of the Ad hoc committee on energy that made the reports of having received some money from […]

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EALA Speaker Margaret Zziwa forced out

Reporter | November 26, 2014

The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) Speaker Rt. Hon. Margaret Natongo Zziwa has been asked to step down. The Assembly that sat in Nairobi has this afternoon moved to elect Hon. Chris Opoka-Okumu to preside over the Motion for removal of Margret Zziwa. The Motion for the removal of the […]

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Jilted lover gets community service for kidnapping children

Reporter | November 26, 2014

The woman convicted of kidnapping her former lover’s children has been sentenced to two months community service. 21-year old Jamilah Nabatanzi appeared before Mwanga11 Court Grade One Magistrate Morris Ezra Obura and asked for leniency. The magistrate based his decision on the fact that she was remorseful, is a first […]