{"id":35458,"date":"2018-06-07T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T11:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=35458"},"modified":"2018-06-07T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T11:20:48","slug":"travel-agents-to-sue-govt-for-a-shs-4-5-trillion-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/travel-agents-to-sue-govt-for-a-shs-4-5-trillion-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel agents to sue gov&#8217;t for a shs 4.5 trillion debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Ritah Kemigisa.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Travel agents under their umbrella body, the Uganda Association of travel agents have threatened to sue government for a debt of unpaid tickets amounting to shs 4.5 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists this morning,\u00a0 the chairperson of the association\u00a0 Pearl Kakooza says their decision follows a government&#8217;s directive to all its agencies to start procuring air tickets directly from airlines and not from the travel agents.<\/p>\n<p>Kakooza says the directive is a betrayal to the over 4000 Ugandans who are employed by this sector and thus are at risk of losing their jobs and a counterproductive policy to have a private sector led economy.<\/p>\n<p>The agents now want the government to pay all travel agents their money and also withdraw this directive with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>A PPDA letter dated 28th May 2018 sent out to all government ministries, departments and agencies directed all accounting officers to start effective next financial year 2018\/2019 to start buying airtickets directly from airlines and not through travel agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ritah Kemigisa. Travel agents under their umbrella body, the Uganda Association of travel agents have threatened to sue government for a debt of unpaid tickets amounting to shs 4.5 trillion. Addressing journalists this morning,\u00a0 the chairperson of the association\u00a0 Pearl Kakooza says their decision follows a government&#8217;s directive to all its agencies to start procuring air tickets directly from airlines and not from the travel agents. Kakooza says the directive is a betrayal to the over 4000 Ugandans who are employed by this sector and thus are at risk of losing their jobs and a counterproductive policy to have a private sector led economy. The agents now want the government to pay all travel agents their money and also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":35459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}