By Our Reporter
NATIONAL
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Parliamentary Caucus is due to interface with its Party Chairman and President of Uganda to seal fate of about 70 Government Agencies, Commissions and Authorities up for rationalization.
Cabinet on 22nd February, 2021 and under Minute Extract 43 (CT 2021); took a decision to merge, mainstream and rationalize Government Agencies, Commissions and Authorities; and rationalize public expenditure, to facilitate efficient and effective service delivery.
In line with this decision, NRM Parliamentary Caucus has been invited to meet with President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Friday 2nd February, 2024 at State House Entebbe.
This is revealed in a communication by the NRM Party Chief Whip, Hamson Obua to all NRM Party MPs dated 31st January, 2024.
Obua says the purpose of the meeting is to Rationalization of Government Agencies and Public Expenditure. However, only MPs who would have taken a Covid-19 test will be allowed to attend.
The adopted policy for the Rationalisation of Government Agencies and Public Expenditure (RAPEX) has at least 25 big and small agencies, along with several political councils lined up for the chopping block.
Here is the Full List of the Agencies, Commissions and Authorities up for the chop
1 Uganda Nurses and Midwifery Examinations Board,
2 Uganda Allied Health Examinations Board
3 Uganda Technical and Business Examinations Board
4 Directorate of Industrial Training
5 Management Training and Advisory Centre
6 Nakawa Vocational Training Institute
7 Students Financing Board
8 Kyambogo Teacher Curriculum
9 National Library of Uganda
10 Uganda National Commission for UNESCO (UNATCOM) as a Desk/Unit
11 Uganda Investment Authority
12Uganda Free Zones Authority
13Non-Performing Assets Recovery Trust
14 Non-Performing Assets Recovery Tribunal
15 Departed Asians’ Property Custodian Board
16 National Lotteries and Gaming Board
17 Uganda Properties Holdings Limited
18 Tax Appeals Tribunal
19 Uganda Micro Finance Regulatory Authority
20 Uganda Exports Promotions Board
21 Amnesty Commission (AC)
22 National Citizenship and Immigration Control (NCIC)
23 Center for Alternative Dispute
24 Law Reform Commission (LRC)
25 National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS)
26 Uganda Trypanasomiasis Control Council
27 Diary Development Authority
28 Uganda Coffee Development Authority
29 Uganda Cotton Development Organization
30 Uganda Livestock Industries Ltd
31 Uganda seed Limited.
32 National Roads Safety Board
33 Transport Licensing Board
34 Uganda Road Fund
35 Uganda National Roads Authority
36 Uganda Warehouse Receipt System Authority
37 National Youth Council
38 National Women’s Council
39 National Council for Children
40 National Council for Disability
41 National Council for Older Persons
42 Equal Opportunities Commission
43 National Drug Authority
44 Agricultural Chemicals Board
45 Uganda Nurses Council
46 Allied Health Professionals Council
47 Medical and Dental Practitioners Council
48 National Forestry Authority
49 National Meteorological Authority
50 Electricity Disputes Tribunal
51 Rural Electrification Agency
52 Uganda Electricity Generation Company Ltd
53 Uganda Electricity Transmission Company
54 National Information Technology – Uganda (NITA-U)
55 Public Service Commission
56 Health Service Commission
57 Education Service Commission
58 Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Ltd
59 National Records and Archives Centre (note yet operationalized)
60 Uganda Wild Life Education Centre (UWEC)
61 Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA)
62 National Planning Authority
63 National Population Secretarial
64 Metropolitan Physical Planning Authority,(changed to (National Physical Planning Board)
65 Town and Country Planning Board(Phased out)
66 National Physical Planning Board
67 Uganda Registrations Services Bureau (URSB)
68 National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA)
69 Uganda Non-Governmental Registration Board
70 Registration Function under the National Citizenship and Immigration Control
71 National Physical Planning Board (Moving to National Planning Authority.
