#Thomas Tayebwa

Czech Parliamentary Speaker Tomio Okamura joined Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa for gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, naming a baby gorilla 'Tomio' to strengthen bilateral tourism ties.

Parliament has given the Ministry of Education and Sports a one-week deadline to resolve a dispute with Ndejje University over 102 graduates whose academic transcripts remain withheld despite cleared financial accounts.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has offered Uganda as a potential host country for the headquarters of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States. Meeting OACPS Secretary General H.E. Moussa Saleh Batraki at State House Entebbe, President Museveni backed ongoing institutional reforms and pledged financial support to advance South-South cooperation.

Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa has called for the establishment of basic malaria testing laboratories in school sick bays and dispensaries to enable early diagnosis, reduce preventable deaths and strengthen Uganda's fight against malaria.

Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) President Thomas Tayebwa has warned a 79-nation summit in Brussels that developing countries will never achieve prosperity by exporting raw materials, revealing that Africa loses massive wealth by shipping out its $29.5 trillion mineral bounty unprocessed.

Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa has launched the EAC Parliamentary Week in Kampala with a strong call to member states to fast-track the harmonization of regional laws. Tayebwa urged East African legislators to eliminate non-tariff barriers and move away from boardroom deliberations to actual deliveries to make citizens the true owners of the integration agenda.

The 12th Parliament has fully constituted its legislative committees and approved its new leadership teams during a session chaired by Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa. The structural deployment places opposition MPs Patrick Oshabe Nsamba and Muwada Nkunyingi at the helm of key accountability committees like PAC and COSASE, while electing four new backbenchers to the powerful Parliamentary Commission.

Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has asked Beijing to back Uganda with technical expertise so the country can meet strict export standards and...