Tag Archives: State House

From his office on the sixth floor of the Finance Ministry block in Kampala, Kenneth Mugambe, the Director Budget can look down contentedly at the Nakasero neighbourhood of the rich.  The downtown poorer sections of the city are blocked from his view. Donning a stylish purple shirt and a matching …

By Joan Akello The executive director for Ugandan Media Center, Ofwono Opondo says  members of parliament  outraged  by a list from State House  showing  the highest paid staff earns  Shs 96 million per month  had typo errors but they  also  ignored the correct one. “These errors were pointed out to …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Before resigning as President Yoweri Museveni’s Principal Private Secretary (PPS) in 2010, Amelia Kyambadde had served as private secretary to Museveni from 1979, spent five years in exile in Sweden and later returned to the same job in 1986. Currently, she is the Minister of Trade, …

By Nabusayi L. Wamboka State House, which caters for the welfare and security of the President and his VP, is perennially underfunded The Monitor story published under the headline “State House budget hits record Shs 200 billion” (Daily Monitor April 11, 2013) is not only alarming and ill intentioned, it …

By Independent Investigations Team   A look at the relationship between Museveni and Amelia Kyambadde The Sunday Vision newspaper of June 6 announced a ‘reshuffle’ in State House. The story said that a re-organisation had taken place at the president’s residence which also houses his private office. The re-organisation, the …

By John Njoroge UETCL says company is not competent But State House, Migereko want deal done In November 2008, a public hearing was held at Sunset Hotel in Jinja. Its purpose was to get feedback from stakeholders over an application for a licence to generate and sell electricity. The application …