Parliament clears additional budget funding as the national budget shoots to 80 trillion shillings for the 2025/26 financial year.
The supplementary worth 8.1 trillion shillings was tabled before parliament by the minister of state for finance in charge of General Duties Henry Musasizi who moved the original budget from 72.3 trillion to 80 trillion shillings during the plenary sitting chaired by the speaker of parliament, Anita Among.
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 as the budget committee chairperson, Patrick Isiagi explains
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 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.
By Francis Lubega
03rd Dec 2025
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