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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several technical staff in the Energy Ministry mainly in the Directorate of Petroleum have left for well-paying jobs in the Petroleum Authority of Uganda-PAU and Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC), parliament heard on Friday. As a result, the Ministry couldn’t spend Shillings 2.8 billion that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Friday tasked Ministry of Energy officials to explain the omission of payment for rock in the contract for construction of Isimba and Karuma Hydro Power Dams. The officials led by the Permanent Secretary Robert …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Efforts by the Criminal investigations department of police to secure accountability documents for money that was reportedly wired to personal accounts of Judiciary staff have so far yielded no fruit. This is according to Detective Assistant Inspector of Police Olwach Michael. The detectives were …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has faulted the Mubende Regional Referral Hospital Director, Alex Andema over a 777.8 million Shillings wrongly expenditure on a stalled building.  Andema and other hospital officials on Tuesday appeared before the committee chaired by Budadiri West MP Nathan Nandala Mafabi …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has directed officials from the Ministry of Agriculture to immediately submit details of the Palm Oil project account and bank statement for Financial Year 2017/2018 up to date. The directive by PAC Chairperson Nathan Nandala Mafabi followed …

 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Officials from the Privatization Unit on Thursday failed to prove to parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over the non-payment of salary-related taxes to a tune of 6.4 billion Shillings. Led by Finance Ministry Under-Secretary Betty Kasimbazi, the officials and others appeared before the committee …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has directed the Auditor General to carry out a forensic audit on Namboole National Stadium. The directive by PAC Chairperson Nathan Nandala Mafabi followed a submission of a document by the Finance Ministry indicating that Mandela National Stadium has …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has directed Finance Ministry to start the process of renegotiating an agreement with an Edible Oil Refinery company-which is in the country to develop the palm oil industry. Government through the Finance Ministry in 2003 entered an agreement with the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has learnt that the Judiciary is stuck with 24 billion Shillings bail cash. The money has been accumulating over the past years with an average of 5 billion shillings deposited every year on the judiciary’s bank account in Bank …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |   Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says that the Judiciary Permanent Secretary Kagole Kivumbi is to be held  for contempt of parliament for allegedly presenting falsified documents. This was the Committee’s opinion after legislators  concluded that a medical form tabled by Kagole, after his failure to …