Day: March 4, 2024

500 smuggled smart phone recovered from Entebbe Airport

By Annet Nantongo A traveller aboard an inbound flight from Dubai has been nabbed with “fake hips” that were discovered to be smuggling smart phones. The lady discovered that in fact “her hips did lie” when 40 pieces of phones were found strapped to her hips and in her bosom, hidden beneath several layers of …

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URA impounds 12,000 cartons of unstamped drinks

By Kamugisha Kabahweza Allan URA enforcement under the Special Revenue Project last week carried out an operation in Mid-Western Uganda to enforce the affixing of digital stamps on the gazetted products. The team inspected shops and related businesses in Mubende, Kibaale, and Kyegegwa where 12,235 cartons of assorted alcoholic kombucha drinks that were unstamped, inactivated, …

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UEDCL benchmarks on URA’s Contact Centre

By Kamugisha Kabahweza Allan A team from the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) recently benchmarked on URA’s contact center in preparation for the expansion of their own. During the visit, the team gained insight into the inner workings of URA’s hybrid chat, which mines data from all URA social media handles and WhatsApp, the …

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