Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has ordered for the transfer of top police officers at the Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID for failing to arrest masterminds of the chaos that marred National Resistance Movement -NRM party primaries. Last month, the president directed the Inspector General of Police, Martin …
Read More »IGP orders distribution of 50,000 copies of guidelines on gun use
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector-General of Police, Martin Ochola, has ordered for the distribution of more than 50,000 copies of the new Standard Operation Procedures to all police officers, LDUs and UPDF soldiers attached to the police force. In response to President Yoweri Museveni’s directive to draft new …
Read More »IGP Ochola issues new operation guidelines
Kabalore, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector-General of Police, John Martins Okoth Ochola, has responded to President Yoweri Museveni’s directive to draft operation procedures that will be followed by all police officers and personnel from sister agencies during field duties. Museveni on September 8 directed Ochola to come up with …
Read More »Parliament disagrees with Museveni on taxing loss making companies
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has rejected President Yoweri Museveni’s proposal to tax businesses declaring losses in the current financial year 2020/2021. This is now the fourth consecutive time that the government’s proposal is suffering defeat. The decision was taken during a debate on Tuesday, in which MPs reconsidered …
Read More »Parliament maintains position on beer, wines and fermented beverages tax
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has rejected a proposal by President Yoweri Museveni to increase the excise duty on beer with the aim of generating Shillings 52.5 billion in revenue. Also rejected are proposals to increase the excise duty on wines to generate Shillings 130 million as well as …
Read More »Museveni donates UGX 100m to his village primary school
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As schools financially struggle to reopen after seven months of lockdown, President Yoweri Museveni has donated 100 million Shillings to a primary school in his village of Rushere in Rwakirura district. In a press statement issued by the presidential press unit, Museveni on top of …
Read More »Heavy deployment at Nyabushozi tally center
Kiruhura, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is heavy deployment of the army and police at the tally center in Nyabushozi County, Kiruhura District following the fresh primary elections held on Thursday. Tension has been high in Nyabushozi county since the September 4 primaries where the District Registrar, David Agom …
Read More »Wakiso locals offer free land for roadworks
Wakiso, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Nakawuka, Kasanje and Kisubi in Wakiso district have offered free land to government to upgrade the road stretching from Mpigi to Nateete in Kampala to tarmac. The locals contend that the road whose traffic is ever heavy, slows development of their areas …
Read More »DP struggling to get signatures for Mao’s presidential bid
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party has appealed to its members to support their President General Norbert Mao to secure signatures and National Identification Numbers-NINs to cement his Presidential Bid. According to the DP Electoral Commission, whoever gets elected as the President General of the party, automatically …
Read More »Crash programme on to inspect Wakiso’s 3,000 schools by Thursday
Wakiso, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wakiso district educationists office has deployed a big task of inspecting a total of 3187 primary and secondary schools before they resume studies come Thursday this week. Each government (UPE) school is also receiving 1.5 million shillings cash to purchase specific requirements. The Wakiso …
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