Cabinet on 10th of this month voted to let go of some govt agencies that had duplicate roles as those of other departments within their respective mother ministries. Other reasons for this decision were to align their functions, structures, budgets etc for efficiency, eliminate functional ambiguities, overlaps and duplication, wasteful expenditures, harmonization of wages between agency employees and those in the traditional public service among others.
Roles of the affected agencies and commissions will therefore go back to their respective ministries while the unfortunate ones will be merged into single entities and others will be dissolved.
Government is preparing an omnibus bill through the Justice ministry to reverse the laws that led to the creation of many of these agencies and commissions. The Bill is said to be introduced as early as next week.
The following are some of the tech and media facing govt agencies to won’t face the axe/will be retained
- Uganda Media Center
- Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
- New Vision Printing and Publishing Corporation
- Uganda Telecommunications Limited
- Uganda Institute of Communication and Information Technology
- Uganda Communications Commission
Agencies to be retained under works and infrastructure development;
- Uganda Air Cargo Corporation Limited
- East African Aviation Academy
- Civil Aviation Authority
- Uganda Railways Corporation
Agencies to be dissolved;
- National Information Technology Authority Uganda
- Uganda Registration Services Bureau
- National Registration and Identification Authority
Agencies to be merged;
- Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited
- Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited
- Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited
- Rural Electrification Agency
These will become one single entity.
