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Disengage Signet From UBC – MPs

Posted by: Suubi Anne in Uganda news April 20, 2022

Members of Parliament have recommended that government should create Signet as its own media company. The government should own this, with its own mandate, deliverables, board, and secretariat that is different from Uganda Broadcasting Council.

According to the MPs on the Committee of ICT, the government should legally disengage Signet from UBC. The ICT Committee chairperson Moses Magogo presented this proposal on Tuesday.

“We recommend that they legally disengage Signet from UBC by creating its own company fully owned by government..,” Magogo said in the report.

He says they should give the Shs 7.5 billion allocated for UBC to Signet to install the DTH services for the Free-To-Air services.

According to Magogo, this will help television services to reach each and every corner of the country. MPs want the Shs 2.5 billion to go to the entity and not UBC.

Magogo says that in the next financial year, they should withhold funds until they disengage it from UBC. The entity currently charges shs 12 million per month but MPs say, they should revise it to Shs 5 million.

Meanwhile, last week during the National Association of Broadcasters, NAB, meeting, Kin Kariisa of Next Media emphasized too that they separate this entity from UBC.

“We request that Signet and UBC be separated so the money we pay to Signet is exclusively for its operations and not those of UBC as is currently the case,” Kariisa stressed.

Signet started after a digital migration policy recommended that the national broadcaster; Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) be split into two segments; the content generation arm (UBC) and signal distribution arm (Signet).

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