Yasiin Mugerwa

Dec 29, 2024 | monitor.co.ug | Yasiin Mugerwa

Hamidah (not her real name) was last year diagnosed with stage four cancer at Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI), an advanced stage where the cancer cells have spread to an organ or a part of the body away from the original tumour. She says despite the urgent need for treatment due to her condition, it took her two months of waiting to be started on radiotherapy, a treatment involving the use of high-energy radiation that kills cancer cells, at UCI.

Oct 31, 2024 | monitor.co.ug | Yasiin Mugerwa

What you need to know:As the fallout from the First Reading of The National Coffee (Amendment) Bill, 2024, intensifies, fresh battle lines have been drawn over the country’s leading cash crop, pitting the government against a section of MPs and coffee growers in 126 districts across the country. Mathias Mpuuga, Parliament commissionerThe whole idea of rationalisation has been handled in a similar lackluster manner to liberalisation.

Jun 26, 2024 | monitor.co.ug | Yasiin Mugerwa

What you need to know:During the consideration of the Appropriation Bill, the lawmakers made amendments that suppressed Treasury Operations budget by more than Shs400b. The lawmakers have accused Finance ministry officials and others of over budgeting and failing to spend the money, yet there are pressing priorities.

Jun 26, 2024 | monitor.co.ug | Yasiin Mugerwa

Five clerk assistants and four more legislators, including the House Budget Committee chair, are in the eye of a simmering budget graft storm following a wider police investigation into misappropriation of Shs164 billion earmarked for the compensation of cooperatives.

Jun 25, 2024 | monitor.co.ug | Yasiin Mugerwa |Busein Samilu

Unflinching in his new anti-graft war, President Museveni read the riot act to lawmakers, and in no uncertain terms vowed not to sign the Appropriation Bill, 2024, unless Parliament reinstates the Shs750b that was reallocated from the government priorities in the 2024/2025 Budget.