Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A new report of the Auditor General has revealed financial indiscipline at Uganda’s Embassy in Copenhagen-Denmark. This is in relation to the utilization of 5.6 billion Shillings total budget disbursed to the Embassy for the financial year 2019/2020. The Auditor-General John Muwanga’s report on the …
Read More »Private sector calls for legislative support
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) has called on Parliament to align national policies to the National Planning Framework that is premised on the Vision 2040, annual budget and Ministerial Policy statements. According to the PSFU Executive Director Francis Kisirinya, the business community invests based on …
Read More »MPs pledge increase of sports budget
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament under the Sports and Education committee have assured the National Council of Sports that they are going to demand for increment of the budget of the sports sub sector in the next financial year. The legislators revealed this when they visited council’s …
Read More »MPs pledge to increase NMS annual budget by UGX 100Bn
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the committees of finance, budget and health say there is a need to increase the annual budget of National Medical Stores-NMS by an additional 100 billion shillings. They note that the agency’s budget for essential medicines has stagnated around shillings 200billion …
Read More »LOP calls for enhanced funding to health sector
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Mathias Mpuuga, has urged the government to increase budget allocations to the health sector. Presiding over at a fundraising for Kyambala health centre III in Bukulula sub county, Kalungu district, Mpuuga took note of the challenges dogging the …
Read More »SME body speaks out on government’s budget plan, COVID-19 and economy
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | John Walugembe, the executive director of Federation of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Uganda has urged the government to practically implement its proposed economic recovery programme in a bid to improve peoples’ livelihoods. Walugembe speaks for the umbrella/business association that brings together over 112,000 micro, small …
Read More »Arua city fails to access UGX 338M Covid-19 response funds
Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Arua city Covid-19 taskforce is bitter over its failure to access Covid-19 response funds. The city council approved a budget of Shillings 338 million three months ago to facilitate the Covid-19 response. Part of the money is meant for the allowance of VHTs involved in …
Read More »Speaker Oulanyah guarantees increase in sports sector budget allocation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah has assured Ugandans, sportsmen and women that the sports sector will see an increase and not a decrease in the next sector budget allocation. Oulanyah was on Tuesday night speaking at a dinner he organized at Imperial Royale …
Read More »Kitgum municipal officials call for increase of road fund budget
Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum Municipal Council officials have asked the government to increase the road fund budget to boost road maintenance and rehabilitation works. The municipality receives approximately 600 million shillings annually for road maintenance and rehabilitation from the government under the Uganda Road Fund-URF. Uganda Road Fund …
Read More »KCCA approves UGX4Bn budget for purchase of ambulances, mobile labs
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has approved a four billion Shillings budget for the purchase of ambulances to beef up their fleet. The authority currently has three ambulances of its own and 15 others which it is managing under the COVID-19 response plan for Kampala. The …
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