Day: April 29, 2022

The seat fell vacant on March 20 following the death of former Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah in Seattle, USA. Oulanyah was the Omoro County MP from 2001 to 2005 and then from 2011 until his death. “The party’s electoral commission has successfully assessed the 8 candidates who expressed interest for the Omoro County seat. The candidates Included Charles Ochora, Simon Toolit former MP for Omoro) and Mr Okoth Abok Secondo, Brian Odwar, Flavia Apiyo, Oscar Kiiza, Denis Oluba, and Isaac Ojok, finally they selected Simon Tolit and he was revealed by the party principle Robert Kyagulanyi, at Kamwokya Kampala. "We shall win this because our flag bearer is experienced and determined. He ran last time and his victory was stolen by the dictator," Mr Kyagulanyi said. Mr Tolit has previou...

he Minister for Gender Labour and Social Development, Hon. Amongi Betty Ongom has today conducted spot inspections of various factories to assess the labour related issues faced by workers. The visit started at Rose Foam mattresses factory in Mbalala, along the Mukono-Jinja highway and later extended to Tian Tang industries, Royal Van Zanten Flower Farm and Sunbelt Industries LTD in Namanve. By this evening, the Minister was still locked in a meeting with the management of Sunbelt to find immediate solutions to the reported wanton dismissal of workers and the poor working conditions including the lack of worker's contracts and appointments, non issuance of worker's identification cards, harassment, despicable sanitation and the lack of protective gears, among others. The Minister promised ...