By Charles Katabalwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: In his closing remarks for the 50th East African Authorities Commissioner Generals meeting held in Kampala under the Theme: “Leveraging Technology and data for Revenue Mobilization”, John Rujoki Musinguzi the Commissioner General Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) said that the ever changing and dynamic business environment in which tax administrations operate calls for increased reliance on technology and data analytics by offering a wide range of service to reduce cost of compliance, marking target intervations and increase overall operational efficiency, so digital Service Tax is the way to go. “EAC governments lost a lot of…
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Kampala, Uganda: Uganda’s National Social Security Fund Relations Manager Joseph Sooka has been convicted of embezzling 152.7 million Shillings from the Fund Suspense Account. Sooka who has been in charge of the Suspense Account which the Auditor General has severally queried for accumulating unallocated funds is also convicted on counts of money laundering, four counts of forgery and three counts of uttering false documents. Documents before the court indicate that between May 2017 and July 2019, while at Barclays Bank Uganda, Sooka intentionally disguised the true source of 152.72 million Shillings by transferring it from various bank accounts that he…
Nakaseke, Uganda: Nakaseke Central Member of Parliament (MP) Allan Mayanja’ driver Yasin Ssebunya has gone out of people’s sight after he was allegedly arrested on Wednesday by three unknown gunmen from his home in Kamusiime village, Kiwoko Town Council in Nakaseke District. According to Hawah Nassolo, Ssebunya’s sister, while sleeping at 3:00 am, unidentified men knocked on the door demanding for Ssebunya. She says that the men told Ssebunya’s wife that they were taking him to the Police Station. However, minutes after he was taken, the men returned to the house and took away Ssebunya’s phone which had been left…
Apac, Uganda: Reports indicate that a 17-year-old girl who died after she was seriously beaten by agroup locals on allegations of stealing bananas in Apac Town was found alive in a morgue, hours before her body would be subjected to an autopsy. The victim, a resident of Matimia Ward in Arocha Division, was reportedly found alive as doctors at Apac Hospital prepared to conduct a post-mortem on her body. “Information was received that she passed on after being beaten by a mob accusing her of theft. Our officers visited the scene, recorded statements and conveyed her body to the mortuary…
Kampala, Uganda: Mathias Mpuuga- the Leader of Opposition (LOP) in Parliament has offered to resign from the position and the Nyendo-Mukungwe parliamentary seat should anyone bring evidence of his involvement in any negotiations with President Yoweri Museveni regarding the release of MPs Allan Ssewanyana and Muhammad Ssegirinya. The two MPs, who have been on remand at Kigo since September 2021, were granted bail on Monday by Justice Lawrence Tweyanze. Since then, Mpuuga has been on the spot over his alleged involvement in negotiations with the state to release the two MPs. Speaking during a political talk show on CBS radio…
Kampala, Uganda: The High Court in Kampala has issued an interim order temporarily blocking the Uganda Journalists Association (UJA) from conducting their elections that were scheduled to take place on February 25. The order was issued by the Head of High Court Civil Division, Musa Ssekaana on Friday morning. According to Justice Ssekaana, the order is to stay in place until February 28, 2023, when the case is coming up for further directions. Credit: Kfm. Five journalists sued the Association for stopping them from participating in the upcoming elections. Abubaker Lubowa, Zambaali Bulasio Mukasa, Emmanuel Nkata, Hasifu Sekiwunga, and Martin…
Uganda’s Prime minister Rt. Hon. Robinah Nabbanja was on Wednesday forced to flee from angry residents in Appa township, Amuru district after she threatened them with eviction within 3 months. Nabbanja was meeting the locals and their leadership at Otwee Multi-Purpose Hall. All was going on well until Nabbanja told the residents that cabinet had resolved that all occupants of Apaa township voluntarily leave by May 15, 2023, or risk forceful eviction. Report: URN. Nabbanja noted that cabinet had resolved to compensate each of the affected people with national identity cards Shs 10 million in addition to twenty iron sheets, and twenty…
Bob Williams Labeja- the former resident district commissioner (RDC) of Moyo, Nebbi, and Nakapiripirit, has been arrested by police in Kitgum over the death of his wife Jackie Abalo. Labeja is accused of assaulting his 38-year-old wife following a domestic brawl leading to her death on Tuesday this week. According to information obtained from the mother of the deceased Robinah Akullu, the suspect on Sunday severely beat up his wife at their marital home in Kitgum district. The victim then fled to her family home in the Pader district for refuge complaining of severe body pain. She was reportedly rushed…
By Ariinda Twaikya white/Bunyoro Correspondent. Kikuube, Uganda: The Opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) has today donated maize flour and beans worth millions to the starving people of Kikuube district pitch camping at kigyayo camp –Kiziranfumbi Sub County. You will remember that, by November 13th 2022, Hoima Sugar limited had an engagement meeting with these evictees in which the resolutions created room that the misfortune will soon end following Hoima sugar limited promise to intervene in the issues affecting these displaced families. In 2014 over 300 families were evicted to pave way for sugarcane growing in Kiziranfumbi of which the voiceless…
A Mozambican pastor, Francisco Barajah, has died after fasting for 40 days, in an attempt to copy Jesus Christ who is recorded in the Bible to have fasted for 40 days. Barajah was the founder of the Santa Trindade Evangelical Church in the central province of Manica. He reportedly died on Wednesday while being treated at a hospital in Beira where he was taken for treatment after his condition deteriorated, BBC News reports. He was taken to the hospital by his relations who were worried that he had lost so much weight after fasting for 25 days and could no…