By Editorial,
Legislators have scrapped the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Board returning its mandate of overseeing operations of NGOs back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
This was while the lawmakers considered the NGO Amendment Bill, 2024 passed during the plenary sitting yesterday.
The Chairperson, Committee on Defense and Internal Affairs, Hon. Wilson Kajwengye said that the functions of the National Bureau of NGOs can be performed in the Ministry, like it was the case in 2016 before the Board was created.
The amendment now mainstreams the Bureau as a department under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as part of government’s policy to rationalize various entities.
The new law replaces the NGO Board with a Bureau that will be headed by a Secretary, who will be supervised by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to the new legal regime, the Secretary shall be responsible for the day to day operations of the Bureau, the management of its funds, as well as administration and management of the property of the Bureau. END.