The classified budget of the Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs has hit 1.9 trillion shillings for next financial year from 800 billion last year.
Members of Parliament have been left astonished by a Shillings 7.6 billion budget request by the Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) to host a week long regional meeting.
The Internal Affairs State Minister, Obiga Kania told the house during plenary all the 3,233 cameras will be installed by August this year. He however, observed 446 of the 1756 cameras are nonfunctional because of power issues.
Parliament has approved a recommendation that an extra 135. 6 billion shillings is allocated to the Water and Environment sector in the financial year 2019/2020.
During the 17th Ordinary Summit of the East African Community (EAC) Heads of State held in March 2016, the Presidents launched the new EAC e-Passport and directed that issuance of the passports should take effective 1st January 2017 followed by a phased suspension of the readable East African and National Passports in a period of two years.
Parliament has approved Shillings 13.1 billion additional funds to the Justice and Constitutional Affairs to cater for processing of amendments to the constitution by the Constitutional Review Commission.
Parliament on Wednesday evening approved an additional funding of Shillings 344.2 billion to the Electoral Commission to enable the election body prepare for the coming general elections in 2021.
While appearing before the Finance Committee of parliament chaired by the Rubanda East MP, Henry Musasizi, Moses Kaggwa, the Director Economic Affairs explained that the new proposal is meant to ensure that property owners don’t offset losses on one property using income from another profitable property.
