NEBBI – Nebbi district councillors have passed an estimated budget of Shs 36.4 billion for the financial year 2023/2024, which is a decline of 12 percent when compared to Shs 41bln budget passed for the current financial year 2022/2023.
According to councilors, most of the money in the next budget will go to the payment of wages while a small fraction will be spent on development projects.
The budget breakdown shows the education sector taking the lions’ share of Shs 13.9bln, administration Shs3.4bln, production Shs 2.3bln, and health Shs 10.1bln, among other sectors.
The chairperson of finance, planning, administration, and investment committee Nebbi district, Mandhawun Teddy Onegiu while tabling the next budget to the district council noted it will be funded by local revenue, central government grants and donor funds.
She said the theme of the budget for the next financial is “Full Monetisation of Uganda’s Economy through Commercial Agriculture, Industrialisation, Expanding and Broadening Service, Digital Transformation and Market Access”.
The Nebbi district planner, Robenson Oley said the decline in the budget for the year 2023/2024, is due to budget cuts from the Finance ministry which will present a national budget of Shs 52 trillion come June 14, 2023.
However, the Nebbi district speaker, Kizito Ongan when asked why the education sector received a lion’s share of Shs 13bln, he said there is a need to construct classroom blocks for the increasing number of learners.
Ongan applauded councillors for passing the budget which he said will improve service delivery for the communities they represent in the district council.
He urged the councillors to monitor government programmes so that they achieve the intended objectives.
“Now you have approved and passed the district budget and it is upon you to monitor all the government projects since you are the custodian of the areas,” Ogan said.
However, the district chairperson, Emmanuel Urombi urged the councillors to take the budget as their own, having deliberated on and passed it.
He said the budget focuses on strategic areas of socio-economic infrastructure such as building schools.
He added: “We must focus on the constructions and rehabilitation, human development and poverty reduction by engaging our communities’ programs like Parish Development Model [PDM] and Emyooga Programme as driving factors in eradicating poverty and creating wealth for sustainable development.”
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