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@kfm Fri, 17 May 2024 12:57:31
6 Island communities in Pallisa to get special census arrangements
With just two days to the end of the National Housing and Population Census, authorities in Pallisa are making special arrangements to carry out the exercise on the 6 islands of the district. The Pallisa Resident District Commissioner, (RDC) Dhikusooka Magidu, tells KFM that while the exercise started on time in other sub-counties, the island communities have not been enumerated because of accessibility and weather-related challenges. “We are making special arrangements to conduct census on these islands. We need to hire boats that could take the census officials and undertake the enumeration exercise” Mr Magidu said. The RDC says affected islands Otelele, Oluka, Luzira, Gaba, Amatiama and Kambatana located in the sub-counties of Obutete and Gogonyo with an estimated combined […]
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@kfm Fri, 17 May 2024 12:27:49
Tax experts caution government on Shs 70Tn budget
The Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group has cautioned the government over the possibility of increasing the tax burden on the already over stretched Ugandans. This comes a day after Parliament’s Budget Committee tabled a revised proposal of the Financial Year 2024/25 national budget by a whooping Sh 13Tn to take care of recurrent expenditure and development projects. Speaking to KFM, Julius Mukunda, the Executive Director CSBAG says Uganda has no capacity to internally raise the over 70 Trillion Shillings. “They are two biggest challenges that this project will face number one is that we do not have the capacity to raise this money internally here in our economy and secondly even if they get this money can the put it […]
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@allafrica Fri, 17 May 2024 11:32:02
Ray G Shuts Up Naysayers With Sold-Out Lugogo Concert
[Observer] Eleven years in the music industry and Ray G proved that he too deserves to be counted among top Ugandan players, despite the fact that he had to ferry many fans in buses all the way from Mbarara to Lugogo Cricket Oval last Friday for his maiden concert.
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