Parliament yesterday approved the budget for the financial year 2016/17. The approved budget is worth 26.3 billion shillings moving from the last financial year’s budget of 23.9 trillion shillings. Ntenjeru north MP Amos Lugolobi told parliament chaired by Rebecca Kadaga that the figure was agreed upon by the committee after thorough scrutiny of the budget and making reallocations […]
The president of the Uganda Local Government Association and the current Jinja district chairperson, Fred Ngobi is calling upon the newly elected political heads at local government level to desist from involving in leadership and power fights with the district technical wing if they are to better serve the communities that elected them. Ngobi says, many […]
The National budget for the Financial Year 2016/17 awaiting parliament approval hit a record of 27 Trillion Uganda Shillings going up compared to the last financial year of 24.1 trillion shillings due to unforeseen items which were not included in the Budget. This Financial year Budget 2015/2016 shot up to 24.1 Trillion Shillings from Shillings 18 Trillion […]
Government has decided to relocate the payment of court awards from Attorney general Chambers to Ministry of Finance. This is in an effort to clear all outstanding court awards. State Minister of Finance in charge of planning David Bahati while appearing before the Committee of Finance said that 425 billion shillings is a huge bill and Government […]
The health minister Elioda Tumwesigye is now calling for a special economic audit from experts on the impact of malaria to the country’s economy in the current state as well as the strategies used to combat the disease. Speaking at the official opening of the world malaria day scientific colloquium today in Kampala, Hon. Elioda says […]
Judicial service commission budget is halted over absence of a substantive head of the Judicial service commission. The legal and parliamentary affairs committee chaired by Stephen Tashobya declined to scrutinize the proposed budgetary for judicial service commission unless the post of chairman in filed. The move comes at the time when the term for the previous chairman […]
Members of parliament say that the ministry of finance must find funds for purchase bicycles for village local council chairpersons who did not receive them in 59 districts in the country. MPs say that it’s a big embarrassment for local council chairpersons not to be given their bicycles in 59 districts yet their fellow chairpersons in […]
The Ministry of Health wants over 1 trillion shillings for the Next Financial Year 2016/17 to cater for the swelling needs and gaps in the Health Sector. Among the issues to be catered for is a salary of the Health Workers, Uniforms for all Health Workers, Automatic recruitment of New Health workers, and increment of Budget […]
The Parliamentary Budget Committee chaired by Bulambuli County MP Wamakuyu Mudimi has rejected the proposal of the Finance committee to appropriate funds for the Presidential Initiatives on Banana industrial development (PIBID). The Chairperson of the finance committee Robert Kasule Sebunya had been appearing before the Budget committee which is scrutinizing the budget requesting MPs on the […]
Members of parliament under the Uganda Parliamentarians Forum on Food Security, Population and Development have demanded a trillion shillings budget for the agriculture sector. Speaking to journalists at parliament the secretary General for this forum and MP for Kakuto county, Mathias Kasamba, said that its time for the government to find a big budget for agriculture […]