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URA lauds Ruparelia group for giving back to taxpayers

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Uganda revenue authority (URA) has, lauded Ruparelia Group, for giving back assorted services worth Shs 30 Million to the Taxpayers.

Ruparelia Group led by its chairman, Sudhir Ruparelia is among the companies that has given back millions of shillings that will be used in the forthcoming tax payer’s appreciation week slated for 25th-27th September, 2019.

The week will be held under the theme ‘If everyone pays, no one pays more’ calling every individual to pay taxes as required.

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“A really big Thank You to Ruparelia Group for showcasing a heart full of gold. They have given back to the Taxpayer Assorted services worth Shs 30 Million in the spirit of Every Taxpayer Counts.” Reads in part of URA’s message.

Other companies include: Hima cement that handed other 100 bags of cement, Crown beverages among others.

Born in Kabatoro, Kasese District in the Western Region of Uganda to an upper-middle-class Indian Gujarati family, he attended Bat Valley Primary School in Kampala, from P1 to P6, then Jinja Main Street Primary School in Jinja for P7 and Jinja Secondary School. In 1971, he joined Kololo Senior Secondary School.

He moved to the United Kingdom with his parents in 1972 at the age of 16, when the dictator Idi Amin expelled all Asians from Uganda.

He returned to Uganda in 1985, with US$25,000 earned from several casual jobs including working in supermarkets, factories, and butcheries. Ruparelia started selling beer and spirits imported from Kenya.

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In 1989, beer importation was banned to encourage local brewing of alcohol and he realized he could not make beer. But since his customers, who were mainly foreigners, paid him in foreign currency, he started Crane Forex Bureau, the first in Uganda. With his profits, Ruparelia ventured into other businesses, including forming Crane Bank in 1995. Later, he organized his businesses under the umbrella of the Ruparelia Group.

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Oil company appoints Proscovia Nabanja to replace Josephine Wapakabulo

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The Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) has appointed Proscovia Nabbanja as the acting Chief Executive officer replacing Dr. Josephine Wapakabulo who resigned from the position.

Her appointment has been confirmed by the Oil Company’s spokesperson Ibrahim Kasita.

41 Year Old Nabbanja has been serving as the Chief Operating Officer at UNOC for the last three years.

Nabbanja is also a Senior Geologist who worked in the Petroleum Exploration and Production Department at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development.

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UNOC’s role is to handle the Uganda government’s commercial interests in the petroleum sector and to ensure that the resource is exploited in a sustainable manner. UNOC also aims at increasing participation of Ugandans in the oil and gas sector through employment and provision of goods and services.

In a message on the website, she promises to help the company play “across the petroleum value-chain and plans to grow into an oil and gas entity with both local and international presence.” 

Nabbanja holds a Bachelor of Science (chemistry, geology) from Makerere University and a Master of Science in petroleum geoscience from Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London. She also has an MBA from the same college.

She is expected to drive the company into profitable ventures for the country in the sector. Meanwhile, Wapakabulo resigned on May 13, 2019, citing personal reasons for leaving just three years after she took on the mantle. 

In a tribute short video posted online on Monday evening by UNOC, the company’s chairman board Emmanuel Katongole said she has been a “terrific leader.” 

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Her replacement comes at a critical time when the country is expected to finalize the Final Investment Decision (FID) that will see the actual commencement of big projects, including the oil pipeline and the refinery.  

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Will Ruto fight Uhuru on referendum?

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A national referendum to change the Constitution is now a matter of when, not if, as key political parties and leaders in the country have started working on a rare unity pact that analysts say will form the basis of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s succession politics.


President Kenyatta’s wing in Jubilee Party, Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement, Kalonzo Musyoka’s Wiper Democratic Movement, Musalia Mudavadi’s Amani National Congress, Moses Wetang’ula’s Ford-Kenya, and Gideon Moi’s Kanu are already reading from the same script and are pledging support for the Building Bridges Initiative, which many see as the vehicle to the referendum.


A united front bringing together these key political parties could start a wave that eventually installs a leader at State House in 2022.
The clearest indication yet of how the referendum question could read was revealed last week when women leaders under the Embrace movement, a pillar in the Kieleweke formation of the President Kenyatta-aligned Jubilee camp, said the Executive needs to be expanded to include the position of a prime minister and two deputies.


Leaders with insider information on the plans to change the Constitution told the Nation that six parties, among them Jubilee and ODM, are plotting to use the huge following they enjoy in the country to marshal support for the referendum, expected early next year.

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DP will not punish members who join Bobi Wine

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Democratic Party bloc leader Norbert Mao has rubbished allegations that they have the intentions of fighting people power pressure group led by Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu.

Speaking to the media at Dp head offices in Kampala Mao said that the relationship between DP bloc and people power is unbreakable.

His remarks come at a time when people power recently unveiled the team it will collaborate within the struggle for power transition come 2021 and 75% of the team was from DP.

Mao added that DP bloc is ready to work with any democratic forces of change as long as they carry the same agenda towards the peaceful transfer of power.

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