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The Kenyan authorities last week announced a ban on maize from Uganda and Tanzania arguing that it was contaminated with aflatoxins. Raising a matter of national importance Busia Municipality MP Geoffrey Macho proposed that Uganda also bans imports of agricultural products from Kenya and that the government buys from the traders, all the maize which is stuck at the borders. Several legislators including Abdul Katuntu, Elijah Okupa, Joseph Ssewungu said Uganda is not benefiting from the East African Community Integration calling on the government’s urgent intervention. The speaker of parliam...

The one thing I learnt since I became a member of parliament is that the work we do in parliament pleases just a fraction of the constituency. There are people who appreciate the work you do. They hear you on radio and see you on TV and will follow and understand what an MP does. Unfortunately, those are about 20 or 30 per cent. The rest of the constituency will want an MP who attends burials, weddings and pays school fees. I distributed more food in my constituency than government. That’s not the work of an MP but we represent people who are poor.

Daily Monitor Monday December 21 2020                                                       On the eve of Uganda’s Independence in 1962, thieves broke into the embassies of the United States of America and several other foreign missions, but this was a strange kind of robbery. The only valuables they made off with were the flags of those nations. The attacks were coordinated by Ally Muwabe Kirunda Kivejinja, a member of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) youth wing, who at the time was also a secretary at the party’s research bureau. “After getting the certa...