The powerful people behind Bemanya Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | Uganda Telecom Ltd (UTL) looks like a typical company in shambles. In April 2017 it run to court to block a petition seeking to wound it up partly owing to Shs709 billion debts it had accumulated over the years. …
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Four years later, her corruption-proof strategy takes shape amidst huge expectations and challenges Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | In 2015 when President Yoweri Museveni appointed Allen Kagina to head the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA), the body had sunk deep into jaw dropping corruption. Exposure and investigations into the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Forestry Authority has lost Over 40,000 hectares of the central forest reserve land in Kayunga district to private developers, the Bamugemereire led Commission heard on Tuesday afternoon. The affected reserves are Bajo Central Forest Reserve in Bale Sub County, Wamale and Kiula …
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Mombasa, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has tabled a supplementary budget before parliament to allocate sh3 billion to the Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters chaired by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire. The Minister of State for Planning, David Bahati says they received a request for extra funding from the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Administrator of Zabuloni Estate Ronald Kalemba has pinned a businesswoman Miria Ssebunya for grabbing close to three Square Miles of their family land. Miria Ssebunya is wife to former Uganda ambassador to Libya Moses Kiwe Ssebunya. Kalemba, 53 told the Commission of Inquiry …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Justice Bamugemereire Land Commission and Judiciary have resolved to harmonize their working relationship following clashes in the past. The decision was reached in a closed door meeting at High court in Kampala on Wednesday afternoon. The judiciary was represented by the Chief …
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Land Probe security, ESO guard clash Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Counter Terrorism Police officers attached to the Justice Catherine Bamugemereire Land Commission have clashed with soldiers attached to the External Security Organisation-ESO headquarters in Mutungo. The incident climaxed with Land Commission security surrounding a soldier who had cocked …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. Muhammad Kasasa has accused government of fleecing his compensation money resulting from sale of land on Mutungo Hill. Appearing before the Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters on Wednesday Kasasa says that in 1996, a military detach was set up on his land in …
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THIS WEEK: Bamugemereire attacks judges over land evictions Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Catherine Bamugemereire (Pictured), the chairperson of the commission of inquiry into land management has attacked fellow judges for “catalysing rising land distress, grabbing of protected and fragile areas causing landlessness and a state of lawlessness.” Bamugemereire …
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Why the greedy Ugandans we love to hate could be the key to our future prosperity THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Our country has a new villain: the land grabber! In the popular imagination, this is a rich and powerful individual grabbing land from poor helpless …
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