Day: November 10, 2022

Through a Buy Now Pay Later model, farmers get the inputs they need on credit as Adagchil pays the suppliers upfront One of the biggest barriers to agricultural technology adoption in sub-Saharan Africa is the limited access to agricultural inputs – coupled with many of these coming with low quality. Yet, the future and development of the continent is held on the success of the agricultural sector. A Ugandan is striving to solve this limitation, with a Buy Now Pay Later product for farmers to access agricultural inputs. This product, named Adagchil, is built by Aturinda Julian who seeks to simplify the process that farmers go through to get inputs, ranging from seeds, irrigation services, micro insurance, fertilizers, among others without worrying about having money upfront. “One of the...

The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has said the House is investigating circumstances under which a committee report due to be presented was leaked to the media. During the plenary sitting of Wednesday, 09 November 2022 in her communication, Among revealed that some Members of Parliament have involved themselves in leaking committee reports before they are presented to the House. She cited the Public Accounts Committee – Committee on Commissions Statutory Authorities and State Enterprise (COSASE). COSASE, chaired by Joel Ssenyonyi, investigated the operations of Uganda Airlines unraveling irregularities in recruitment processes, salary disparities at the Airlines, and cases of corruption for over two months and the report was yet to be presented. Among cautioned MPs saying that rul...