Police Fails to Account for UGX 1.2 Billion NTR Collections

Police’s Non-Tax Revenue is generated from express penalties, firearm certificates and guard fees. For the last two financial years, the force collected 23.14 billion Shillings as Non-Tax Revenue, but only remitted 22.5 billion Shillings to the Consolidated Fund.

A number of unions are seeking compensation of assets that were lost during the National Resistance movement struggle, Hostilities by the Lord’s Resistance Army, atrocities during Idi Amin’s regime, and different regime changes among others.

The Buganda Kingdom Lukiiko on Monday received and approved a 121 billion Shillings Budget for the financial year 2019/2020. The budget is up from that of 108 billion for the last financial year 2018/2019.

The Kingdom will focus more of its efforts this year on completion a shopping mall at Mirembe Villas, construction of low-cost houses at Sentema, increase the production of Olwendo mineral water, completing the registration process of Buganda Coffee Company, and starting an online newspaper ‘Gambuuze’, among others.

The bill proposes the registration of farmers capturing details of the size of land, the number of coffee trees and particulars of the farmers, coffee buyers and sellers among others. The bill also proposes that land, where the coffee is to be grown shall be evaluated by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority to determine its suitability for coffee growing.

The Namisindwa Woman Member of Parliament, Canon Grace Namukhula Watuwa, says the entire process was marred with several anomalies.

The ministries, departments, and agencies failed to spend 210 billion shillings while local government failed to absorb 139.5 billion shillings.