Uganda report for the year 1955
Date
1956
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Publisher
Entebbe, Uganda: Information department of the government of Uganda,
Abstract
Population; Occupations, Wages and Labour Organisation; Public Finance and Taxation; Currency and Banking; Commerce; Production: Land Utilisation and Tenure; Agriculture; Animal Industry; Forestry; Fisheries; Tsetse Control; Hydrological Survey; Geological Survey and Mapping; Mining; Co-operative Development; Social Services: Education; Health; Virus Research; Housing; Town Planning; Social Welfare; Legislation; Justice, Police and Prisons; Public Utilities; Communications; Press, Broadcasting, Films and Information Services; Geography and Climate; History; Administration; Weights and Measures; Reading List.
Description
The political development of Uganda went ahead at great pace in 1955 with far-reaching changes in both central and local government. A Ministerial system was introduced and Legislative Council was reconstituted; His Highness the Kabaka returned from exile in Britain to sign a new Agreement for Buganda; a new Agreement was signed also for Bunyoro; while a framework wTas set out for the development of local government in the Eastern, Western and Northern Provinces. Changes in Central Government.—A Ministerial system of government was introduced in August. Eleven Ministers were appointed, six of them Government officials and five—three Africans, an Asian and a European— drawn from the public. Two African Parliamentary Secretaries were also appointed.