Uganda, May 14 -- On June 14 last year, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics reluctantly admitted that the planned 2023 National Census exercise would be postponed to a later, unspecified date. According to the Bureau, the extension of the census date was intended to allow it to acquire a sufficient number of tablets to facilitate a digital approach to the exercise. At this point, the Bureau, which was struggling with a financial shortfall in its preparations, had already announced that it would deploy 120,000 enumerators, each equipped with a tablet. All seemed to be going well until April 2, 2024, just a month ago, when the UBOS Executive Director Dr Chris Mukiza and his team returned to parliament to ask for Shs23.7 billion to pay taxes for...