Uganda: State House Extravagance

opinion

Extravagant, lavish, wasteful is how I describe the recent state house supplementary budget request for Shs129 billion. I have joked with colleagues that Uganda will never have a supplementary free financial year especially "state house supplementary request" until the 2nd Coming of the messiah; they are yet to prove me wrong. A flash back at the two financial years reveals some interesting statistics.

Financial year 2012/2013 saw a supplementary request of 58.5 billion being made by state house, six months later a 129 billion request is being made by the same entity. The FY 2011/ 2012 saw three supplementary budget requests amounting to15.8billion, 92 billion and 14 billion respectively bringing the total sum of supplementary requests to a staggering 121.8 billion.

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