We are signing a partnership with Oryx. They have agreed to supply every household in Bamutakudde with its first gas cylinder at half price. They are also setting up a refilling station in the village. - @SolomonSerwanjj #TheCapitalGang #NBSUpdates

Digital Number Plates Saga: Parliament Approved the Fees. Same Parliament is Questioning Where the Fees Came From. The media has been awash with public complaints about how the new number plate fee of UGX 714,300 came to be. The Parliamentary Committee on Physical Infrastructure chaired by Mr Mwine Mpaka Rwamirama, MP, seems to have tapped into a visceral public anger at anything government and questioned why Ugandans are being asked to pay what appears like an exorbitant fee for new number plates issued under a larger ITMS system. We did some digging. It turns out that @Parliament_Ug can actually find that answer from @Parliament_Ug. Here’s a May 2023 joint committee report of the Committees of Defense and Internal Affairs as well as the Committee of Physical Infrastructure that the aforementioned Mr Mwine Mpaka Rwamirama now heads. THEY recommended APPROVAL of these fees. You can find this minor detail on pages 19 and 20 of this 30 page report. In fact, they approved $200, which in today’s shillings would equate to UGX 800,000. So, when we keep saying that what is happening in parliament now is either theater to distract the masses or a mass show of inability to read and grasp issues, this is what we mean. If indeed these fees are as unconscionable as the MPs are saying, they can’t escape blame by posturing and fooling the masses. They own this mess just as much the Head of State and the technocrats whose arrest they’re ordering for the cameras. A conclusion can therefore be drawn that on those fees, the people’s own representatives betrayed the people and now want to throw the blame elsewhere. They want to have their cake and also eat it too. I think it’s lawyers who say one can’t approbate and reprobate. (The penguin in me might have used it wrongly but you get the drift). More to come… #ITMSSpotlight