Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Court of Appeal in Kampala has dismissed an application filed Julius Galisonga against Bugweri County MP Abdu Katuntu. Galisonga’s appeal was dismissed on Thursday by a panel of three Court of Appeal justices comprised of Cheborion Barishaki, Hellen Obura, and Christopher Izama Madrama, on grounds …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Francis Zaake has petitioned the Constitutional Court seeking a temporary injunction to block his removal from office as a Commissioner of Parliament. On March 10th 2022, the Parliament resolved to remove Zaake from the office of Commissioner and required him …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament, Francis Zaake will cease being a Parliamentary Commissioner following a vote on motion moved to have him out on grounds of misconduct. In a secret ballot conducted out of 161 members of Parliament, 155 MPs voted to remove Zaake from the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Communications Commission-UCC has told the Rules, Privileges and Discipline Committee of parliament that they cannot verify and confirm the ownership and authenticity of the Facebook and Twitter accounts of Mityana Municipality MP Francis Zaake. The committee chaired by Bugweri County MP Abdu Katuntu, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Rules, Privileges and Discipline Committee of parliament has the jurisdiction to investigate and discipline any legislator for their conduct outside the precincts of the House, the committee chairperson Abdu Katuntu has stated. He delivered the verdict on Wednesday following an objection raised by the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is no law that allows a parliamentary committee to discipline legislators for their conduct outside the precincts of the house. This is part of the arguments raised by the lawyers of Francis Zaake, the embattled Mityana municipality member of parliament in their submission to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawmakers have adopted a report by the Parliamentary Task Force on the National Covid-19 Response calling on the Auditor General to carry out a forensic audit into all Covid-19 expenditures to ascertain value for money. In its report to Parliament on 03 August 2021, the Task Force …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Auditor General should institute a forensic audit into all Covid-19 expenditures to ascertain value for money, the Parliamentary Task Force on the national Covid-19 response has recommended. In its report presented to Parliament, the task force stated that government provided Shs4 trillion to finance …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliament Covid-19 taskforce committee has discovered discrepancies in the Ministry of Health Covid-19 expenditure. The accountability report was presented to the committee by the Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng. This is highlighted in the committee report that is scheduled to be presented before parliament …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A team of private health service providers came under fire from the Covid-19 taskforce of Parliament for holding the bodies of Covid-19 victims and patients over unpaid bills. Several families whose relatives have succumbed to Covid-19 have failed to pick their bodies from private facilities …
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