Uganda, April 25 -- Physical planners in Uganda will soon all be required to be registered as a precondition to practice in the country, according to provisions of the Physical Planners' Registration Act, 2023.

Ms Amanda Ngabirano, the chairperson of the National Physical Planning Board, said the mandatory registration by a yet-to-be-named Board, will help weed out quacks.

"We have been having substandard physical planning going on by people who are imposing themselves as physical planners when they are not," she said at a press conference organised by the Society of Professional Physical Planners of Uganda (SPPPU) at Uganda Media Centre in Kampala yesterday.

Ms Ngabirano is an ex-officio member of the Interim Executive Council of SPPP...