KCCA loses 4.5bn annually in outdoor advertising on billboards due to lack of an ordinance to enable it collect the fees according COSASE.
COSASE recommended that the ordinance be put in place within 3 months.
However, while in the kcca council sitting chaired by the speaker Zahara Luyirika, there has been a scuffle following the methods to have the law enacted.
The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) faulted officials of Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) for causing the government a loss of 4.5bn annually by failure to enact a trade ordinance on Outdoor Advertising Levy.
KCCA was stopped by the court from collecting this levy in 2020 on the grounds that they were using an illegal instrument to collect the levy.
But since then, the Authority has failed to make a new ordinance to operationalize the tax
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Parliament will start scrutinizing the Auditor General’s report for the last financial year 2022/2023 which among others reveals that 6.72 billion is lost to payment of ghost employees.
Following the last 2023 validation exercise of government employees, 1,818 ghost workers put a dent on the consolidated fund.
This is notwithstanding the Parish Development Model where over 604 beneficiaries in various PDM SACCOS had ineligible and non-existence projects.
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The Vice President Maj. Jessica Alupo has launched the construction of Karamoja Peace and Technology University in Kotido district to foster Peace and Education in the Great Lakes region.
The University will be established in Losilang Ward, Kotido Municipality, Kotido district.
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Ministry of health has received health information systems equipment worth 643 million shillings from Makerere University School of public to help in the digitization of 8 regional referral hospitals.
The equipment is supplied under the Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support Programme-METS
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Nebbi Catholic Diocese has begun preparations for animating this year’s Martyrs’ day celebrations with call for financial support to finance a budget worth 1.8b shillings.
The organizing committee headed by the elder person’s parliamentary representative for Northern Uganda Akumu Catherine says the amount sought is to among others facilitate face lifting of parts of Namugongo Martyrs’ shrine.
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Busia District Security team has embarked on investigations following rampant killings of Boda boda riders and fire outbreaks, mostly in schools.
In the last two months, the district has registered more than six cases of fire outbreaks in schools, including Victory nursery and primary school, Bill and Polly Nursery and primary, and Sibirise Primary, among others.
Among the registered cases at police include those of four boda boda riders that were killed and their motorcycles taken by the assailants.
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