Tuesday , April 23 2024
Home / Tag Archives: COSASE (page 11)

Tag Archives: COSASE

KCCA spent UGX 3bn on rent for Engineer’s office

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA spent 3.6 billion shillings to rent offices. This was revealed by the acting Executive Director KCCA, Andrew Kitaka on Wednesday to Members of Parliament on the Committee of Commission, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE. He was responding to a technical …

Read More »

MPs query KCCA UGX 27Bn expenditure on legal costs

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE has faulted Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA officials for spending Shillings 27 billion on legal fees in the 2016/2017 financial year. According to the Committee, the Shillings 27 billion was above the Shillings 16.3 billion budgeted for …

Read More »

Parliament among KCCA ground rent defaulters

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Parliament is among the list of government entities that owe Kampala Capital City Authority–KCCA Shillings 16billion in ground rent and property rates for the 2016/2017 financial year.  The others are Uganda Police Force headquarters, National Water and Sewerage Corporation-NWSC among others. The acting KCCA Executive Director, …

Read More »

UNRA tasked to explain diversion of compensation funds

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Finance Director of the Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA Brazza Kwesiga has been tasked to explain the diversion of 60.5 billion Shillings meant for the compensation of Project Affected Persons (PAPs). The query was first cited by the Auditor General in his report for …

Read More »

Whistleblower raises red flag on UNRA recruitments

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A whistleblower has petitioned Parliament’s Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) over anomalies in the recruitment of staff at the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA). The Whistleblower alleges that the process is unfair and discriminative. Committee Chairperson Mubarak Munyagwa says that his …

Read More »

BoU scandals linked to Mutebile succession-Katuntu

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bugweri County Member of Parliament, Abdul Katuntu, says there is need to address Governance issues in Bank of Uganda-BoU to curb scandals rocking the central bank. Katuntu, who chaired the Committee on Commissions Statutory Authorities and State Enterprise-COSASE, says there is a big …

Read More »

MPs demand creation of City Metropolitan police force

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have faulted Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) for failing to create a Metropolitan Police Force nine years after a law came into force. In their report, the MPs sitting on the committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) say …

Read More »

CAA officials tasked to explain role in BoU currency saga

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Civil Aviation Authority –CAA never dealt directly with the Central Bank on matters relating to a chartered plane that was carrying Printed currency notes from abroad. The clarification came in relation to questionable cargo that was found on a plane chartered to deliver …

Read More »

BoU: Irregular procurement will not happen again

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The management of Bank of Uganda has today told the Committee on Commissions Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) in Parliament that they will not have irregular procurement. Bank of Uganda (BoU) has said they have learnt from the irregular procurements for the Joseph …

Read More »

MPs summon Muhakanizi over BoU audit queries

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legislators on the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises- COSASE have summoned Keith Muhakanizi, the Treasury Secretary to explain audit queries raised by the Auditor General against Bank of Uganda (BoU). COSASE Chairperson, Mubarak Munyagwa issued the summons on this afternoon following a …

Read More »