“Museveni recognised Parliament’s oversight mandate but cautioned legislators against drawing conclusions without fully engaging all the technical teams implementing the project” Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has cautioned Members of Parliament investigating Uganda’s controversial digital number plates project against producing inaccurate reports, saying the …
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NEWS ANALYSIS | TINAH AKETCH | Uganda’s push to attract investment is confronting a challenge beyond financing and infrastructure: uncertainty over whether government contracts will survive parliamentary scrutiny without disruption, costly disputes or demands for cancellation. Across enquiries into expressway operations, vehicle inspections and digital number plates, Parliament …
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Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | As Parliament’s Committee on Physical Infrastructure continues its scrutiny of Uganda’s Digital Number Plate Programme, the latest operational records show a significant turnaround in service delivery, with the production backlog cleared and average fitment time reduced. During earlier hearings, the Committee on Physical …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Did government hurry to roll out digital number plates? That question is increasingly being asked by motorists, car dealers, transport operators and businesses as Uganda grapples with persistent shortages of digital number plates under the Intelligent Transport Monitoring System (ITMS), a project being implemented …
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A Russian Company, a Chinese Network, and Uganda’s Surveillance State NEWS ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | Kampala’s bustling streets now hold a new kind of gaze: the state’s watchful eye, embedded in every vehicle. Uganda’s Intelligent Transport Monitoring System (ITMS), featuring mandatory digital number plates, is sold as a …
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“I think the confusion about fines could be because we didn’t have money, and we told these people to make the number plates and recover the money from those who make mistakes, but the issue is that the number plates is digitized,” said Museveni. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A concerned citizen, Kagingo Muhammad Brutus, has petitioned the High Court seeking an interim injunction to halt the issuance of digital number plates and the collection of express traffic penalty fees. He argues that the company currently handling the process, Joint Stock Company Global …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has welcomed the implementation of the Electronic Express Penalty System against errant drivers. The system is an automated system designed to detect and enforce traffic violations using CCTV cameras and digital number plates. It is part of the Intelligent Transport Management System …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) has asked the government to review the process of issuing digital number plates. Through the Ministry of Works and Transport together with the Ministry of Security, in 2023 the government embarked on a 10-year deal to install digital …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Intelligent Transport Monitoring System (ITMS), is ready to commence installation of digitalized number plates on private vehicles. ITMS is a Russian company procured by government to install number plates. The company started with government public vehicles and motorcycles. Fixing the plates on private vehicles …
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