After various meetings with Parliamentary Committee on ICT, National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) is set to roll out the National Data Transmission Backbone Infrastructure and e-Government Infrastructure (NBI/EGI) project to connect all major towns across the country including Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies via an optical fibre cable network so as to reduce the cost of public administration, support delivery of secure e-Government services as well as enhance communications services in the country.
This comes after NITA-U responded to the queries raised by Budadiri West Member of Parliament, Hon. Nandala Mafabi.
Mafabi wanted NITA-U to explain how they were going to execute the Missing Links project.
Chairperson of the ICT Committee, Hon Annette Nyakecho informed members that in-light of two letters from World Bank and Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority, procurement was ongoing and the Evaluation report wasn’t available to enable the investigation into the allegations made.
It was further noted that according to Paragraph 24.7 of the World Bank Guidelines 2014, NITA-U is barred from sharing information in any form relating to the evaluation until the publication of the award of the contract.
It was therefore against this background that the Parliamentary ICT Committee Chairperson directed that NITA-U be excused from the meeting and would be invited back once the Missing Links procurement process had been concluded.