Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government through the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) has embarked on undertaking feasibility study on the three proposed industrial parks in the West Nile region. The feasibility study comes nearly two years after three districts in the region offered acres of land for establishment of industrial …
Read More »Uganda’s pathogenic Economy
Time for the country to leap into pharma knowledge and great value manufacturing COMMENT | MORRISON RWAKAKAMBA | Uganda Investment Authority is working with Ministry of Health and other stakeholders to implement establishment of an over 500 acre fully serviced major pharmaceutical industrial park in Nakasongala to spur human …
Read More »UIA gets free land for development of industrial parks in Western Uganda
Kisoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local governments in four districts of southwestern Uganda have offered free land to Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) for the establishment of industrial parks in the region. The districts are Kisoro, Kabale, Mbarara and Rukungiri. Kisoro district alone has offered 620 acres of land located in …
Read More »Rwakakamba confirmed new UIA board chairman
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Chief Executive Officer at Agency for Transformation (AfT), Morrison Rwakakamba has been appointed as the new board chairman of the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA). Rwakakamba who has also been a board member of UIA will start his term of office on June 1, 2021 …
Read More »Reforming Social Security sector
Why it will take more than the positive steps introduced by parliament through the NSSF Bill COMMENT | MORRISON RWAKAKAMBA | After two years of back and forth, legislative rancour, bevy of consultations and a mix of COVID-19 that ripened urgency for workers protections – and continues to upstage fortunes …
Read More »COMMENT: Behind National Dialogue
Is it a Piriton pain killer pill by President Museveni to drug Ugandans into slumber? COMMENT | MORRISON RWAKAKAMBA | Since talk and preparations for the national dialogue were put in motion over a year ago by a host of shepherds led by Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, The Elders Forum and …
Read More »COMMENT: WhatsApp tax and democracy
How progressive is Uganda’s tax code for an economy that has been hurting since 2016? COMMENT | MORRISON RWAKAKAMBA | As we approach the 2018/2019 Financial Year and the statecraft colour that comes with it – the State of the Nation address and reading of the national budget; the dress rehearsals …
Read More »Rukungiri’s bad Christmas
By Morrison Rwakakamba High water prices and top heavy mechanistic policies are hurting lives in rural communities Over Christmas festivities in Rukungiri district, I conducted a few town hall meetings and village fireplace conversations with real people to discuss issues in their midst. It was sort of an immersion into …
Read More »Rukungiri’s bad Christmas
By Morrison Rwakakamba High water prices and top heavy mechanistic policies are hurting lives in rural communities Over Christmas festivities in Rukungiri district, I conducted a few town hall meetings and village fireplace conversations with real people to discuss issues in their midst. It was sort of an immersion into …
Read More »Why public employees deserve high salaries
By Morrison Rwakakamba Improved and rationalised salaries for public workers will drive economic growth While delivering the Budget Speech for Financial Year 2014/15 (In accordance with Article 155(1) of Constitution of Uganda) on the 12th June 2014, the Minister of Finance Planning and Economic Development (MFPED), Hon. Maria Kiwanuka, announced …
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