Category: Watchdog Uganda

MP Ssemujju Nganda: I don’t think Zaake was most suitable to be Commissioner, in future we should be careful with people we appoint

By Mubiru Ivan Kira Municipality Member of Parliament Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda has said in future, the opposition should be careful with the people they send to the Parliamentary Commission because he thinks his Mityana Municipality counterpart Francis Zaake is/was not the most suitable to be a Commissioner. Ssemujju’s assertion follows the impeachment of Zaake from […]

Absa Financial Markets Index ranks Uganda’s financial markets as the best in East Africa and 5th on African Continent

By Watchdog Uganda Ugandan financial markets have been ranked in the top spot in East Africa and the fifth on the African continent, according to the just-released 2021 Absa Africa Financial Markets Index. A collaboration between the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) and Absa Group Limited the index assesses the progress and potential […]

Here is why Museveni wants to kick Umeme out of Uganda

By Mubiru Ivan The State Minister for Privatisation and Investment, Evelyn Anite, this week assured legislators that government’s plan to create a sole electricity company will ensure provision of affordable and accessible electricity. Anite said it is the position of government to move away from using middle men in electricity generation, manufacturing and transmission, who […]