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Hoima District currently manages 540 kilometres of roads. But it received only 40 out of the budgeted 140 million Shillings from the Uganda Road Fund to construct, manage and rehabilitate roads last year.

Benjamin Makanga the District Secretary for Works has described the report as inaccurate and misleading to the public.

The concern by Civil Society Organizations comes days after President Yoweri Museveni ordered the suspension of DGF, the single biggest donor basket established by Development Partners to provide harmonized, coherent and well-coordinated support to state and non-state entities in the country.

The construction works that started in 2001 using force on account funding is costing the Town Council Authorities shillings 400 million. However, the construction works have still stalled due to lack of funds.

According to the project chief coordinator Engineer Joseph Jaasi, there is no progress on the project four months after it was launched.

The Commission Lead Counsel, Ebert Byenkya, said the Commission has a huge wage bill which includes the emolument of Commissioners and investigators among others.

Gertrude Abalo says that government needs to urgently enact a marine policy that would guide all marine operators in Uganda including the small canoe and cargo wooden boat owners.

Kalangala district has a total of 23 primary schools spread in nine out of the 63 habited islands. It has three secondary schools and two tertiary institutions. But with a population of 5,800 school going children, only 254 children are able to complete primary seven every year on average.

In total, the festival will cost Shillings 1.3bn but KCCA has only received Shillings 976 million from sponsors leaving a short fall of UGX 334 million.

According to the search warrant issued by Nakawa Magistrate Nakitende Juliet on September 20th, 2017, police was allowed to search the organizations computers, accessories, mobile handsets, money transfer-related documents and bank money transaction documents.

In a July 15th circular, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, the Makerere University Deputy Chancellor in charge of Finance and Administration, says students from the Fort Portal Campus are to be relocated to Makerere main campus and Jinja campus with effect from the 2016/ 2017 academic year.