Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija has said the zero interest system in Islamic Banking should attract a good number of Ugandan entrepreneurs. According to Kasaija, Ugandans have been reluctant to borrow from banks due to the high interest rates …
Read More »Gold top as Uganda earns $299 million from January exports
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bank of Uganda statistics indicate that the country exported goods and services worth $299 million in January. This is an increase of $11 million compared to the value of goods and services exported in December 2018 valued at $288 million. The monthly statistics released …
Read More »Why Katuntu COSASE wrote ‘weak’ report
Can Kasekende, Mutebile, Ssekabira, Bagyenda escape? Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | Fire. Prosecute. Jail. These appear to be some of the recommendations many expected to be in the report that Abdul Katuntu, the Bugweri County legislator and chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities, and State Enterprises …
Read More »BoU board failed to supervise bank liquidation process -report
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bank of Uganda has been blamed for failing to supervise management in the process of liquidating financial institutions. In the COSASE report to parliament tabled by the committee Chairperson Abdu Katuntu, the Central Bank Board’s failure to supervise liquidation of the defunct banks …
Read More »BoU faulted over Greenland bank closure
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bank of Uganda should take full responsibility for any likely loss resulting from the closure of Greenland Bank. This is according to a report by Parliament’s committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE). Greenland Bank was in 1999 put under liquidation by …
Read More »Banks keep interest rates on hold
Mutebile maintains CBR at 10% and projects 6.3% growth of the economy Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Borrowers from commercial banks will not experience changes in lending rates in the coming few months after Bank of Uganda maintaining the central bank rate –which influences changes in interest rates market …
Read More »Impunity at Bank of Uganda
THE LAST WORD: How institutional independence allowed the central bank to indulge in gross mismanagement and incompetence THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Last week was the most shameful for Bank of Uganda. During hearings before the parliamentary committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) it …
Read More »The next fight over closed banks
Under the spotlight: the law and big money Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | After ending its public hearings into Bank of Uganda’s closure of seven commercial banks, attention is shifting to the recommendations the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities, and State Enterprises (COSASE), is set to make. It …
Read More »MMAKS advocates lawyers quizzed on conflict of interest
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE has questioned a team of lawyers from MMAKS Advocates on conflict of interest. The team from MMAKS Advocates was comprised of Apollo Nelson Makubuya, Timothy Kanyelezi Masembe, Moses Adriko, Mathias Ssekatawa, Ernest Sembatya and Isaac Walukagga. …
Read More »BOU: Lawyers of MMAKS Advocates quizzed on conflict of interest
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE has questioned a team of lawyers from MMAKS Advocates on conflict of interest. The team from MMAKS Advocates was comprised of Apollo Nelson Makubuya, Timothy Kanyelezi Masembe, Moses Adriko, Mathias Ssekatawa, Ernest Sembatya and Isaac …
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