The domination of Kenya in East Africa’s economy is obvious. A survey carried out by Summit Business reveals that foreign CEOs, especially Kenyans, have completely taken over as CEOs in Uganda’s top sectors especially insurance, banking, and hospitality. One of the top entrepreneurs reckons Kenya will be the manufacturing hub of East Africa by 2030 due to the said high work ethics and productivity in Kenya compared to other East African countries.   Recent decisions by Bata and BAT to transfer their manufacturing operations to Kenya validate this prediction. Other top supermarkets in the country import all and sundry (including…

Taxpayers have lost $41.8 million (more than Shs107.8billion) in an internet deal awarded to a Chinese company without competitive bidding. Public Accounts Committee investigating the scam found that corruption and negligence on the part of the technical people bungled the $106.5 million (about Shs274b) National Data Transmission Backbone Infrastructure Project meant to promote e-governance in the country. PAC yesterday opened investigations into the allegations of corruption in the deal. “The technocrats let down the taxpayers and approved the inflated costs from the Chinese firm,” Mr Wadri said. “Those who facilitated this fraud are going to pay back the taxpayer money.”…

Ham enterprises limited has defied Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) directive to stop the construction of lock-up shops in place of a perimeter wall they had agreed on around Nakivubo Stadium. The company is said to have entered an unscrupulous public private partnership with the stadium management and have instead resorted to constructing lock-up shops along the area where fire has gutted twice in the last three years KCCA public and corporate affairs deputy director, George N. Ndahendekire said the authority gave a notice directing Ham Enterprises Ltd to halt the construction for flouting a given plan. We have learnt…

The government has signed a Ugx30 billion deal with CareRight HealthCare, a consortium of foreign investors, tasked to start reforms which will help fix the so called ‘sick’ healthcare sector in the country. Officials from the Ministry of finance reveal that, more focus is being on how to reduce the high health costs, make services accessible to people which make it easy for the government to deal with the major killer diseases like breast cancer, malaria and HIV/AIDS. Under the memorandum of understanding, CareRight HealthCare would provide support in scaling up localized programmes focused on improving the health of women…

Rubaga Hospital is in the spotlight after it was sued for alleged negligence of a former employee of Kampala Capital City Authority’s daughter, who died while she allegedly procured an abortion from the facility. Ms Betty Nambuya, whose daughter, Linda Nambuya, died at the hospital, is seeking Ugx. 70 million in compensation over alleged negligence. She sued the hospital before the High Court on July 18. Ms Nambuya accuses the hospital of having carried out an abortion on her 21-year-old daughter, on the night of February 1, 2012. She contends that Nambuya was neglected leading to her death. She claims…

Uganda has received a high end laboratory that will test rock samples to determine the potential of a given area for hydrocarbons (oil and gas). The lab, the first of its kind in the country, will study sample rocks from potential areas to establish their permeability, porosity, conductivity, fluid content and geologic age – for presence of hydrocarbons, through a process known as Core sampling. Core sampling is a process used in mining by taking a solid core of rock from a reservoir to determine the potentiality of a mineral. Mr Sriniras Reddy, the lab’s operations manager, said yesterday, the…