Author: Citizen Editor

Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi has been away from Uganda and from his duties due to some sickness which he has been battling with for the last 3 years but recent photos seen by this publication show the king is not as sick as many alarmist bloggers claim. His absence from the kingdom and from the public domain had elicited mixed reactions raised suspicions among his subjects and politicians have been demanding to see the king. Baganda have staged several protests at the Namibian embassy in London. It was earlier revealed that the King is in Namibia undergoing treatment owing to…

Members of Parliament Yusuf Mutembuli [Bunyole East] and Cissy Namujju [Lwengo District] will sleep in Luzira prisons a bit longer than expected after the judge declined to grant them bail as requested earlier and instead committed them to the high court to face trial after DPP collecting all implicating evidence. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 The duo were arrested together with another legislator Paul Akamba of Busiki county and were all returned to court last Friday 14th June but Mutembuli and Namujju failed to secure bail. Their colleague Akamba managed…

The Ugandan government runs up debt like it doesn’t have to ever pay it back. Last year, it spent nearly twice the amount it collected in taxes, running over outstanding budget deficit in balances of payments alone notwithstanding civil servants’ dismal salaries and wage bills paid in arrears amidst the corruption inherent from the top echelons of authority in the ministries down to the local government administrative apparatus. Imagine if the average Ugandan household behaved like that, what is pending is stressful. The median family income in Uganda is modestly around or below Ugx35m per annum. According to Uganda Bureau…

By Alex Tushabe Kinyara Sugar Limited is facing serious allegations of discrimination and harassment following a violent incident involving Murugan Saravanakumaran, the Assistant Agriculture Manager. Saravanakumaran and Balaji, an Automation Manager in the Engineering Workshop, were assaulted by a driver, Innocent Katushabe, after reportedly harassing drivers over issues such as incorrect deployment, insufficient fuel, no lunch allowances, and delayed pay. Saravanakumaran is currently recovering from injuries to his jaws, eyes, and head at Kitara Medical, while Balaji fled the office after being hit on the head with a hard object. This incident has brought to light ongoing issues within the…

FlexiPay, Stanbic Bank’s digital payment platform, has partnered with International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Upesi Money Transfer, a regional payments company, to enable FlexiPay users to send, receive money from abroad with ease. Josephine Nakato Kasacca, Lead Customer Experience & Operations for FlexiPay said the new partnership reflects the Bank’s commitment to support and enable customers to complete borderless financial transactions in a convenient, secure, quick, and affordable manner. She said effective June 14, 2024 customers can use FlexiPay to send money to over 20 countries. However, plans are to increase this number to 70 by the end…

For the past three weeks, long serving Lwemiyaga county legislator Theodore Ssekikubo and his other colleagues notably Sarah Opendi from the NRM have been running a signature collection campaign to censure the four parliamentary commissioners. Ssekikubo and all the others who have signed accuse former Leader of Opposition and now Commissioner Mathias Mpuuga, MP Solomon Silwany, Esther Afoyochan and Prossy Akampurira of sharing a whooping Shs1.7billion among themselves as service awards which the motion movers say tantamount to corruption. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 The signature collection drive suffered the…

Citizen Posts had written an article about how the three remanded NRM legislators facing corruption charges were brought to court today for their bail hearing after spending two nights behind the cold gates of Luzira prisons. Two of the jailed MPs; Cissy Namujju [Lwengo District] and Yusuf Mutembuli [Bunyole East] were denied bail and one of their colleagues Paul Akamba of Busiki county who is being represented by his Lawyer Asuman Basalirwa was granted a Shs13million cash bail. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 The two whose bail was denied had…

By Frank Mugabi In the 2024/2025 budget speech, Minister of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development, Hon. Matia Kasaija, severally underscored the critical role of agriculture in driving Uganda’s economic transformation. The Agricultural Sector continues to be the mainstay of Uganda’s economic growth; employing approximately 70% of the population, and contributed 23.8% of the national GDP in the Financial Year 2022/2023. The budget theme, “Full Monetisation of Uganda’s Economy through Commercial Agriculture, Industrialisation, Expanding and Broadening Services, Digital Transformation and Market Access,” emphasizes the need to prioritise investment in the agriculture sector for the country to achieve her ambitious development goals. Achieving…

The Anti-corruption on Wednesday remanded three NRM legislators Cissy Namujju [Lwengo District], Paul Akamba [Busiki County] and Yusuf Mutembuli [Bunyole East] to the cold gates Luzira prisons over ocrruption. The Prosecution alleges that the three jailed MPs on 13th May 2024 at hotel Africana in Kampala solicited from Mariam Wangadya the Chairperson of the Uganda Human rights Commission an undue advantage of 20% of the anticipated enhanced budged of the UHRC for the financial year 2024/2025. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 This was reportedly done by asserting that the MPs…

Today Uganda just like the other East African states presented it’s National Budget of the financial year 2024/25. The budget speech delivered by Uganda’s long serving Minister of Finance Planning and Economic Development Matia Kasaija, Uganda will spend a Shs72 trillion of which Shs32trillion going into debt repayment with URA projected to collect Shs32.3trillion. The Uganda Revenue Authority has severally failed to hit the Revenue collection targets like it failed to collect the target of Shs29trillion in the financial year of 2023/24 and has only managed to collect a historical Shs25.2trillion surpassing the revenue collection target of 2022/23 by Shs57.48billion.…