NRM Causus Resolves To Give UCDA Three Years Transitional Period After Enacting RAPEX Bills

National Resistance Movement Members of Parliament have caved to President Museveni’s demands and agreed to support all the16 rationalization bills, with only Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) and National Information and Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) accorded the special extension of 3years as transition periods.

The pronouncement was made by Hamson Obua, Government Chief Whip while addressing journalists at Parliament this evening, dealing a big blow to the last hope, the staff from the affected agencies were hanging on.

On the fate of the staff in these agencies,  Obua said that the human staff with expertise will be absorbed into their respective Ministries.

 “We aren’t saying that even the experts in UCDA will pack and go home, we aren’t saying the experts in all the Government entities will pack and go home.Government will get a way of accommodating those experts within the departments that will be created in each and every Ministry, as opposed to creating these autonomous, semi-autonomous bodies with Boards and parallel structures. So, all those experts will be accommodated within the Government structure.”said Obua.

 NUP's Abed Bwanika had warned Government of rationalizing itsaying that the officials from Agricukture are ever on flights and seminars.