Lawmakers on Parliament’s Budget Committee are divided over the Shs1.653Bn request by the Judiciary to procure armored cars for judges over some security threats they are facing, with some wondering why the government is normalizing this trend in Uganda. Fox Odoi (West Budama North East) informed the Committee that judges and other judicial officers face
Daily Monitor
Friday January 29 2021
Summary
On Wednesday, the Budget Committee of Parliament discovered that officials in the Ministry of Finance had smuggled Shs481b in the budget after the BOU Deputy Governor, Dr Michael Atingi-Ego, revealed that the central bank had not made any request for capitalisation.
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The 2021/2022 financial year budget must be revised downwards by removing the Shs481b that had been sneaked into the Budget Framework Paper as recapitalisation for Bank of Uganda (BOU), Parliament has directed.
On Wednesday, the Budget Committee of Parliament discovered that officials in the Ministry of Finance had smuggled Shs481b in the budget after the BOU Deputy Governor, Dr Michael Atingi-Ego, revealed that the central bank had not made any request for capitalisation.