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Parliament is slated to hold its plenary sitting this afternoon starting at 2:00Pm & among items for consideration is a loan request from Standard Chartered Bank worth Euro110,543,947.52 (Shs451.304Bn) to finance the Kitgum-Kidepo Road.

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Amero also warned Gov't against only eyeing alcohol taxes from the formal alcohol manufacturers while leaving the informal alcohol brewers to flood society with informal alcohol that has no revenue contribution to Uganda.

“I don’t want us to appear like we are God sent from…

“I agree with the issue that we should put tax that will make people reduce on consumption. But if we put heavy taxes on licensing, there is too much corruption, even the money you collect from these licenses, people aren’t seeing services. I support the taxes on alcohol to be…

Although Susan Amero (Amuru DWR) backed the proposal to increase taxes on alcohol, she said such a move is hampered by the high corruption in Government that has seen Ugandans pay taxes, yet there are no services to show for the taxes paid.

“When you get money from these drinks,…

Lukwata made the appeal during the stakeholders’ engagement with MPs at Parliament where they were discussing proposals in the Alcoholic Drinks Control Bill 2023. Lukwata also urged MPs to reduce on the use of alcohol as a campaigning tool during the election period.

“Most of…

“One of our biggest problems is the availability of alcohol. It is everywhere and at all the time and to everyone. We need to increase on the taxes so that the prices go up and not everyone can afford to buy these products, let us leave them for those that are already addicted…

Hafsa Lukwata, Head, Mental Health Division, at the Ministry of Health has asked Parliament to increase taxes on alcohol so as to make it less available in Uganda and reduce on effects of alcoholism in the country.

Her call comes at the time, the Health Committee recommended to…

“I don’t want to be ash shabby as Minister Henry Musasizi (Minister of State for Finance) and his team, really this army of technical people, fire them. That you come with 20 people competent, at least by paper qualification, and everything they are doing is wrong. And the…

This was after Ssemujju Nganda (Kira Municipality) asked the Budget Committee to halt the consideration of the 2024/25 Appropriation Bill, accusing the Ministry of Finance of submitting fictitious documents to Parliament whose figures on the upcoming national budget weren't…

“Is it that you don’t want the Minister or is it sabotage or is it under looking these Ministers? These Ministers are highly qualified people, I would even say they could be more qualified than some of you. But the Minister is allowing you to do your work, then he comes knowing…

Parliament’s Budget Committee temporarily halted the consideration of the 2024/25 Appropriation Bill, after MPs accused some technical officials of Ministry of Finance of sabotaging their Ministers, following the submission of three different documents with various figures…

“The owner’s engineer disputed the auditor generals’ report so we wanted to go and verify. We aren’t engineers but construction is like pregnancy, so you don’t need an expert to tell that really, some work is going on in construction and they aren’t building the hospital in the…

Muwanga defended the Committee’s site visit to Lubowa saying that it is in line with the audit query raised in the Auditor General’s report for Treasury Operations, where it was reported that an overpayment of US$70m (Shs286Bn) had been made for no work done, which findings the…

In one of the letters paraded by Muwanga during the press briefing, Kenneth Akiiri, Head of Finance and Administration at the Ministry of Finance, wrote on behalf of the Permanent Secretary on 24th April 2024, asking the Committee to halt its planned visit siting the bloated…

Muwanga made the revelation while addressing journalists at Parliament, where he revealed that the first visiting date was cancelled after the proprietors of Lubowa demanded for the names, shoes sizes of all MPs on the Committee in order to avail them with personal protective…

“We sent them names of the Committee members, we even sent them the sizes of the shoes of MPs on the Committee and these reflector jackets, you can even get a tailor to make them for you, so they aren’t exception and have some electronics that can detect a brick falling. We will…

Muwanga Kivumbi, Chairperson, Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, has revealed that today’s planned visit to Lubowa hospital site by the Committee flopped, following a request by Speaker Among to have the visit postponed, after the Lubowa hospital team asked for more time to…

“He (Attorney General) is still reading the contract regarding the Pharmaceutical factory, and whenever Government is going to inject money in your business, you have to give Government shares. When you ask Government how many shares that they have, they don’t know but we have…

However, Ibrahim Ssemujju (Kira Municipality) wondered how the Budget Committee would justify injecting such amounts of money into a company with no written information. He warned that Government’s dealings woth DEI Bio Pharma would likely suffer similar fate as Atiak Sugar…

Henry Musasizi, Minister of State for Finance defended Government’s position arguing that Government entered into a partnership with the project developer to build the factory that will facilitate import substitution in the pharmaceutical sector and at the moment, the Attorney…