"Chairman, a country without reserves is not sovereign. The potential of this Bill to destabilize Uganda’s balance of payments is our primary concern as a central bank. For example, last financial year the overall balance of payment surplus was USD 1.5 billion. That’s how we were able to increase our reserve coverage by USD 1.5 billion. Today as we speak our reserves are close to USD 6 billion. Why? Because these inflows have been coming in. The moment you tamper with these inflows here, we risk running down our reserves, and that is economic disaster for a country.” Governor Atingi-Ego on the Protection of Sovereignty Bill 2026 in an appearance before Parliament today.
Hon Justice Mulyagonja clarifies on the Civil Appeal process in the case of Ssekazi Godfrey v Kyeyune David (Civil Appeal No. 109 of 2015).
"Section 79 of the Civil Procedure Act required that the appeal be filed within 30 days after the date of judgment. It also required that in order to have that period extended automatically, the intending appellant should show that he/she applied for the record of proceedings in writing, but the respondent's lawyers did not do so. And having failed to so apply for the record, he would have had recourse to an application to extend time within which to file the appeal.
The notice of appeal which the respondent filed within the prescribed time does not originate an appeal....." Per Hon. Justice Irene Mulyagonja.
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