Tag Archives: compensation

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A quarter of a century since their services were terminated, over 3,500 former employees of Nyanza Textile Industries Limited-NYTIL are still pleading to be paid the packages due to them. The desperate ex-workers, now 25 years older, were discontinued from NYTIL when the Jinja …

Fort Portal, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The family of three people who were knocked by the lead car of the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga’s convoy in Fort Portal Tourism City are demanding for compensation.  The accident happened on August 3 at Boma as the three were riding on a …

Mityana,  Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A victim of cybercrime in Gulu is demanding five million Shillings compensation for the harassment, financial harm or emotional trauma she has suffered. Sarah Amito, 26, a resident of Te-Gwana Parish in Gulu East City Division alleges that after she and her six other old school …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | High Court has rejected government’s defense in a suit in which Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Francis Zaake is seeking compensation for torture inflicted on him in state custody. Civil Division High Court Judge Esta Nambayo rejected the evidence on Wednesday morning after the …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  The family of a man who was knocked dead have dragged the Attorney General and a Civil Society Organization Mifumi Limited to court seeking compensation.     Robert Turyamwijuka the proprietor of Westgate Pre and Primary Schools Limited was knocked dead on December 2, 2019, first by …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Njeru Municipality labour officer Godfrey Mpaata has been accused of conniving with factory owners to block the compensation of injured workers. About 30 former employees of Paramuko Steel Factory and Yogi Steels Limited, both located in Njeru municipality, accuse the officer of rejecting their …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  A section of Ugandans who battled against rebel leader Alice Lakwena have petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga over delayed compensation for their role in stopping the rebel. Alice Lakwena Auma, the head of the Holy Spirit Movement from Northern, Uganda led a rebellion …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans injured while working for companies that performed overseas operations for the United States are being mobilized to access workers’ compensation benefits. The compensation is provided for under the Defence Base Act of the United States of America, and designed to give medical treatment …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan traders operating along the Rwanda-Uganda border are demanding for compensation. Rwanda closed its borders with Uganda in February and advised trucks from Uganda to only enter Rwanda through the Kagitumba-Mirama Hills post in Ntungamo district. Rwandan authorities accused Uganda of illegally detaining …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  A female minor has sued St Francis Hospital, Nsambya, for negligently causing permanent blindness to her by failing to detect sight complications at the time of her birth. She is seeking a compensation of 120 million Shillings from the hospital, managed under Kampala Archdiocese.   The …