Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda National Roads Authority- UNRA Executive Director, Allen Kagina has been tasked to explain why the body spent 430 billion shillings on contingent liabilities in 2017/2018 financial year. The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE highlighted the audit query among the …
Read More »COSASE sub-committee to probe acquisition of Asian properties
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE chairperson, Mubarak Munyagwa has formed a subcommittee to investigate fraudulent acquisition of departed Asians’ property. In 1983, the Departed Asians’ Property Custodian Board was put in charge of between 9,000 to 10,000 properties of Asians …
Read More »COSASE writes to CID over equal opportunity commission investigations
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) has written to the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) over documents for the Equal Opportunities Commission. The committee made the decision after officials from Equal Opportunities Commission failed to produce payment records for about 3 …
Read More »KCCA spent UGX 3bn on rent for Engineer’s office
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA spent 3.6 billion shillings to rent offices. This was revealed by the acting Executive Director KCCA, Andrew Kitaka on Wednesday to Members of Parliament on the Committee of Commission, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE. He was responding to a technical …
Read More »MPs query KCCA UGX 27Bn expenditure on legal costs
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE has faulted Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA officials for spending Shillings 27 billion on legal fees in the 2016/2017 financial year. According to the Committee, the Shillings 27 billion was above the Shillings 16.3 billion budgeted for …
Read More »Parliament among KCCA ground rent defaulters
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament is among the list of government entities that owe Kampala Capital City Authority–KCCA Shillings 16billion in ground rent and property rates for the 2016/2017 financial year. The others are Uganda Police Force headquarters, National Water and Sewerage Corporation-NWSC among others. The acting KCCA Executive Director, …
Read More »UNRA tasked to explain diversion of compensation funds
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Finance Director of the Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA Brazza Kwesiga has been tasked to explain the diversion of 60.5 billion Shillings meant for the compensation of Project Affected Persons (PAPs). The query was first cited by the Auditor General in his report for …
Read More »Whistleblower raises red flag on UNRA recruitments
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A whistleblower has petitioned Parliament’s Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) over anomalies in the recruitment of staff at the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA). The Whistleblower alleges that the process is unfair and discriminative. Committee Chairperson Mubarak Munyagwa says that his …
Read More »BoU scandals linked to Mutebile succession-Katuntu
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bugweri County Member of Parliament, Abdul Katuntu, says there is need to address Governance issues in Bank of Uganda-BoU to curb scandals rocking the central bank. Katuntu, who chaired the Committee on Commissions Statutory Authorities and State Enterprise-COSASE, says there is a big …
Read More »MPs demand creation of City Metropolitan police force
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have faulted Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) for failing to create a Metropolitan Police Force nine years after a law came into force. In their report, the MPs sitting on the committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) say …
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