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NWSC seeks Sh421B for water distribution in Kampala metropolitan area

Katosi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has asked Parliament to support their request for sh421.9 billion to facilitate the expansion of water supply to households in the Kampala Metropolitan Area. Engineer Silver Mugisha, the NWSC Managing Director, made the request in a meeting …

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New HIV/AIDS projects launched

American-sponsored projects targets Lake Victoria’s fisherfolk Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | A new HIV/AIDS prevention programme targeting Lake Victoria fisher folk in Mukono and Buikwe districts will be launched this month. Known as STAR-C (Strengthening the HIV/AIDS Response in Central Uganda), the project will be run by Kampala-based Naguru Teenage …

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TODAY: Emergency plant shutdown at Katosi water works

Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Water supplyto Mukono, Seeta, Parts of Namugongo, Kyaliwajjala, Kira, Nsasa, Bulindo, Sonde, parts of Mutungo, Bukoto, Naguru and Ntinda will from 6am to 7pm today be affected by work at the Katosi water plant. “The Management of National Water and Sewerage Corporation wishes to …

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IN THE INDEPENDENT: Kampala water supply doubles

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. THE LAST WORD To whom it may concern: A frank memo to those demanding that we purchase credibility at the price of mutilating of our beliefs COMMENT The environment and Uganda’s oil activities: It is …

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Parliamentary committee inspects works at Katosi drinking water plant

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliamentary Natural Resources Committee has toured construction work at the Katosi Water Treatment plant that will pump an additional 160 million litres of water into the Kampala Metropolitan area in 2021. Led by their chairman Dr. Kephas Sempange, Members of Parliament (MPs) on the …

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Katosi road scam hearing flops

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Hearing of defence evidence in the Sh24.7 billion Katosi case against former works minister Eng.Abraham Byandala flopped on Monday after one of the lawyers failed to turn up. The Anti-Corruption Court last week ordered Byandala to defend himself saying that prosecution presented with sufficient evidence …

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Byandala has case to answer in Mukono-Katosi road saga

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The head of the Anti-Corruption Court Justice Lawrence Gidudu has ordered former Works Minister Eng. Abraham Byandala and six others to defend themselves against charges of causing government a Sh24.7 billion loss of funds meant to upgrade the Mukono- Katosi-Nyenga road in 2013. Justice Gidudu on …

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Court frustrated by two-year wait for Katosi road witness

The Anti-Corruption Court has given the Inspectorate of Government (IGG) a last adjournment to either call their last witness in the Mukono- Katosi road saga trial against Minister Abraham Byandala and others, or close the prosecution case and let court decide whether the accused persons have a corruption case to …

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