Parish model budget slashed by half
Sunday May 02 2021
Finance minister Matia Kasaija (left) and David Bahati, the State Minister of Planning, appear before MPs recently. PHOTO/DAVID LUBOOWA
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Government has reduced the budget for the implementation of the Parish Development Model from Shs490 billion to Shs200 billion for the first phase because of shortage of funds.
The money is to be shared across all the 10,460 parishes for the preparatory phase in the first quarter of the next financial year
The initiative is the latest of government attempts at lifting the nearly 68 per cent of households from subsistence economy to commercial production to reduce poverty.
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Govt fails to account for Shs56 billion Covid-19 cash
Friday March 12 2021
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The AG report does not include an audit into the Shs10b that was appropriated by Parliament and shared by MPs, each getting Shs20m purportedly to help them support their electorates during the lockdown last year.
After extended disagreements between Parliament and President Museveni, the benefitting MPs were directed to return the money to the Consolidated Fund account in Bank of Uganda or hand it over to their respective Covid-19 district task forces.
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The Auditor General (AG) has unearthed gross abuse of billions of shillings and other donations meant for the Covid-19 response when the country was battling the effects of the pandemic early last year.