Joseph Kabuleta, leader of the National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED), has said government should let Ugandans take charge of natural resources. He says it will reduce taxes on the informal sector if the country is to attain the middle income status. Until the government empowers the citizens economically, he says there is a lot to do to come up from ...

Frank Gashumba has blamed religious leaders for neglecting the teachers’ please for a fair salary. He said their voice would have added a lot of value to the strike the teachers were having. Unfortunately, the strike was even stopped when no religious leader had ever come out to comment about it in anyway. “Religious leaders have betrayed the people of ...

Former Vice President, Edward Ssekandi, has commended Speaker Anita Among for uniting MPs. The former Vice President said Among has managed business in the house ever since they elected her Speaker. He said this while he was meeting her in her office on Monday afternoon. “I am pleased with how you have managed to unite MPs to deliver on their ...

Hon. Naboth Namanya, Rubabo MP has said teachers have lost more than the government in this strike. He says much as the strike may have done something, the government didn’t lose much. “This is a lesson to the government to critically think before they make decisions. The government should know what they have promised. In this industrial action by the ...

Filbert Baguma, the UNATU Secretary-General, has said they have finally decided to call off the strike. He says this is for the interest of the students that have already missed so much because of the strike. Baguma said this briefly after meeting Museveni yesterday along with other members of UNATU. “We realized that for the interest of learners and the ...