Kyambogo government list out.

The government has released a 400 students list of Kyambogo University for students set to benefit from state sponsorship.

Government sponsors 2,500 students in the five public universities of Makerere,Kyambogo, Mbarara, Gulu and Busitema, with Makerere University taking the lion’s share of 2,000 students while 500 students are shared amongst the four other public universities.

Government has two programmes where it sponsors bright but needy students and these are; the quota system that targets students that are bright but can’t afford university tuition.

The second is a loan system, where government avails loans to bright students that qualify for entry into university but are unable to pay tuition.

Those enrolled under the loan scheme are supposed to repay the tuition fees, two years after leaving University.

Download the list here KYU National Merrit Government Admission List 2016_2017

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A petition not to gazette Lwemiyaga County MP-elect Theodore Ssekikubo has been dismissed.

The Constitutional Court sitting in Kampala ruled that Ssekikubo’s petition challenging the decision of Masaka Chief Magistrate Samuel Munobe over his election case against rival Mr Patrick Nkalubo, be referred back to the lower court.

Last month Mr Nkalubo won a petition in the Masaka court seeking a vote recount of the parliamentary elections, prompting Ssekikubo to apply to the same court for permission to appeal the order in the higher court. However, instead of granting the ‘former rebel MP’ permission to appeal, the magistrate referred the matter to the Constitutional Court for interpretation.

And today Judge Richard Butera, on behalf of the panel of five judges,  ruled in favour of Ssekikubo, arguing that the court’s mandate to interprete the matter in four days had elapsed.

During the parliamentary elections in February, Mr Ssekikubo, the NRM flag bearer, beat his long-time rival Nkalubo with a difference of 1,198 votes. And while declaring the results on February 19, Mr Latif Ngonzi, the district returning officer, indicated that Mr Ssekikubo attained his victory with 9,272 votes (52.77 per cent) against Independent candidate Patrick Nkalubo’s 8,074 votes (45.95 percent).

Other candidates were FDC’s Wilber Nahweera ,who scored 157 (0.29 percent) and Andrew Nankunda (Ind.) with 68 votes.

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Speakers from the EAC Parliaments (National Assemblies/Senates) and EALA will meet tomorrow in Arusha for the 11^th Meeting of the EAC Bureau of Speakers.
According to a release, the delegates will deliberate on weighty issues relevant to the integration process.

‘The meeting is expected to revisit and make amends to the Rules of Procedure of the Bureau of EAC Speakers that guide the Forum.  The meeting will also see the handover of the Chair of the Bureau of Speakers from the Parliament of Tanzania to the East African Legislative Assembly’ the release reads in part.

The one day meeting shall be preceded by a two-day meeting of Clerks on April 27^th and 28^th, 2016, which among other things shall review the mandate of the Bureau, discuss modalities of operationalization of the East African Parliamentary Institute (EAPI) and a number of topical issues on emerging challenges in legislature in the region.  The report of the key meeting will feed into that of the Speakers’ Forum for consideration. 

The Bureau of the EAC Speakers is the umbrella body that EALA and the National Assemblies utilise to champion the cause of Parliaments in the region, that of enacting legislation, oversight and representation and plays a key advisory role to the Summit of the EAC Heads of State.

The Bureau holds meetings annually under the guidance of a Chairperson who is elected under the principle of rotation.  The inaugural meeting of the Bureau of Speakers was held in May 2008.

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