Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Internal disputes among the National Resistance Movement-NRM party candidates in Mukono district have frustrated efforts for holding joint campaigns. Unlike the opposition candidates who are campaigning jointly, each NRM candidate is campaigning separately after a series of bickering and wrangles, some of which can …
Read More »Isimba dam contractor pleads with MPs over withheld UGX 154b
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Isimba Power Dam contractor has asked Parliament to compel Government to release 154 billion shillings it’s holding. The Ministry of Energy and Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) is holding 154 Billion shillings for the Isimba Dam Contractor China Water and Electrical Company Ltd until …
Read More »Gov’t conducting impact assessment on Isimba dam bridge despite being under construction
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have questioned Government’s decision to spend 1 billion shillings for an environmental Impact Assessment on the Isimba Dam Bridge. Officials from the Ministry of Energy led by the Minister Mary Goretti Kitutu were on Tuesday appearing before the Physical infrastructure committee to …
Read More »MPs want public consultations on Roads Bill
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have raised concern over the failure by the Parliamentary committee on physical infrastructure to consult the public on the roads bill 2016. The Parliamentary committee on physical infrastructure chaired by Robert Kafeero Ssekitoleko approved the proposal to expand road reserves from …
Read More »Uganda Road Fund budget increased
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has increased the budget for Uganda Road Fund-URF from 36 billion shillings to 507.4 billion shillings. The decision was based on a recommendation in the physical infrastructure committee report on the need to reinstate the Fund’s budget to over 500 billion shillings as in …
Read More »Nile bridge contractor used trial technology–parliament committee
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Contractors of the newly built Jinja Bridge used a new form of technology of road surface construction that is still under trial, a report by the Physical Infrastructure Committee of Parliament has revealed. The new bridge that was built by Joint Venture of Zenitaka Corporation …
Read More »Infrastructure committee invites the public over landlord-tenant bill
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Physical Infrastructure Committee of parliament is scheduled to conduct public hearings on the Landlord and Tenant Bill. The Lands, Housing and Urban Development Minister, Betty Amongi Ongom tabled the bill in November 2018. The Committee that is chaired by Nakifuma County MP, Robert …
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