With 58 years of business excellence under their belt since 1964, Uganda Baati has continued the journey of nurturing their stakeholders. In a two-day conference that was held at Speke Resort Munyonyo, Uganda Baati has utilized this annual event to groom the company’s dealers who majorly include hardware owners and entrepreneurs that are majorly retailers of their products. According to George Arodi the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Head of Business at Uganda Baati, these teams of dealers who are spread out countrywide comprise about 60% of the company’s sales. “Uganda Baati is the largest metal company in Uganda and…
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Nile Breweries Limited (NBL) has registered a record turn up for the just concluded mass COVID-19 vaccination drive that was conducted in selected district around the country. The two-day drive held on 4th & 5th November, targeted up to 10,000 frontline and vulnerable categories of people, among whom were bar workers, a critical value chain of NBL. However, by the end of the exercise, a total of 14,404 were vaccinated with Masaka registering the highest turn up at 1,197 for Day one and 1,540 on Day Two. Joyce Namasinga, the Assistant Distrcit Health Officer for Masaka City lauded NBL for…
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As Kampala awaits the change of the mode of public transport from small carriers to bigger ones as per the presidential directive, private player Tondeka Metro Company has come out to support the recent presidential ban on importation of buses in Uganda. Tondeka’s Chief Executive Dennis Kibukamusoke says that the Presidential directive is a welcome move and Tondeka was already considering working with local manufacturers in its second phase of implementation. Kibukamusoke says the directive of the President is not new because he had already directed Tondeka to only import the initial 980 buses and work out a mechanism to…
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Although Eng. David Luyimbazi Ssali, the designate KCCA Deputy Executive Director is only 48 years old, he comes into the job with quite a profile, many can engineer dream of. Luyimbazi has been nominated by President Museveni to deputise, Mrs Dorothy Kisaka, who has also been designated as the new Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive Director. Both nominees have to pass interviews by the Public Service Commission. When Uganda National Roads Authority was instituted in 2007, the then 36-year-old Luyimbazi was the road authority’s first Director of planning, a job he assumed in 2008. It is here that he…
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Seasoned communications expert, Peter Kaujju has been appointed as the new Umeme Head of Marketing & Communications, CEO East Africa can confirm. Kaujju has been the Head, Public and Corporate Affairs at Kampala Capital Authority (KCCA) for the last 9 years and his last day at the city authority is on June 30th. According to our sources within KCCA and the Ministry of Public Service, Kaujju reportedly resigned his KCCA role on 30th May and is set to join Umeme, Uganda’s leading power distributor on July 1st 2020. The Umeme position has been vacant since June 2019 when Sandor Lyle…
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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has in fulfilment of his mandate, nominated Kampala lawyer, Mrs Dorothy Kisaka as the Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA). Subject to passing interviews by the Public Service Commission, Kisaka will replace Eng. Andrew Mubiru Kitaka who has been in an acting role since 20th December 2018 when the former city Chief Executive, Mrs Jennifer Musisi resigned the job. In a letter to Justice Ralph Ochan, the Chairman of the Public Service Commission, President Museveni directed that Mrs. Kisaka alongside three other city directors, be interviewed to fill various positions at the city authority….
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High Court Judge, Ssekaana Musa has this morning ordered Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) to refund UGX13,726,210,605 to billboard companies- an amount he says was illegally levied. Delivering his ruling in MISC. Cause No. 407 OF 2019, Justice Ssekana said that he found “the outdoor advertising rates levied, charged and collected by the respondent from the applicant’s members under the respondent’s City Outdoor Advertising Policy, 2008 and the varied new Outdoor Advertising rates levied, charged and collected under Minute; KCCA 11/16/2018 are void, ultra vires, illegal and unlawful.” He also quashed KCCA’s decision that approved the outdoor advertising rates under…
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“Currently, COSASE is seeking the dismissal of Mr Moses Atwine, whose recruitment as KCCA Director Physical Planning, has been termed as “unlawful” because he does not have the requisite qualification for the job.” On Monday, photos of MP Munyagwa and Eng Kitaka went viral on social media platforms with reports saying the two discussed how to strike a compromise on the on-going probe into KCCA staff appointments by the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE). MP Munyagwa in a private meeting with KCCA Acting ED Andrew Kitaka Kawempe South Member of Parliament, Mubarak Munyagwa has since confirmed…
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By Mark Muhumuza As Uganda weans off donor aid addiction, the focus shifts, yet again, to Allen Kagina, to raise Ushs8.4trillion in tax and non-tax revenue for the 2013/14 financial year as Uganda government bids to finance 80percent of the Ushs13trillion budget using domestic resources, like taxes and domestic borrowing. In as much as Maria Kiwanuka, the Finance Minster is ecstatic about majority financing of the budget from domestic resources, it came not as a result of government strategic decision, but rather after donors pulled the plug off budget support due to corruption allegations in the Office Of the Prime Minster and Public Service. This meant…
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