KAMPALA– Parliament approved 8.1 trillion shillings in supplementary funding for financial year 2025/2026, to support key development projects including road infrastructure, health and agriculture services, among others.
The supplementary worth 8.1 trillion shillings tabled before parliament by the minister of state for finance in charge of General Duties Henry Musasizi meant that the original budget now moved from 72.3 trillion to 80 trillion shillings.
Minister Henry Musasizi noted that the funding for the activities under Supplementary Schedules 1, 2 and 3 are over and above the budget of the financial year, but fall within three per cent of the total approved budget noting that they have incurred expenditures that had been unforeseen and unavoidable at the time of budgeting.
According to the report presented by the Chairperson of the Budget Committee, Patrick Opolot Isiagi, the supplementary schedules will be funded through non-tax revenue of 42.96 billion), local revenue from local governments of 13.03 billion, domestic borrowing of 3.7 trillion) and external financing of 4.27 trillion shillings.
Patrick Isaigi explained that the additional budget funding will cater for the closing of the budget gap worth 1.69 trillion shillings for the road sector, 69.69 billion shillings will go for maintenance of government ambulances in government hospitals across the country.
1.197 trillion shillings is provided for the electoral commission to cater for the planned splitting of polling stations and the adoption of advanced biometric technology.
103 billion shillings will go to the ministry of Agriculture of which 79 billion shillings will purchase hand hoe for farmers.
115 billion shillings will go to the National medical stores to procure drugs for vaccination programs which was affected by donor funding cuts.
180 billion shillings for election police officers and 108Bn will go for land compensations among others
The Budget committee chairperson Patrick Isiagi made the justification for the proposed supplementary budget in the report that was presented to parliament for approval.
