Police budget for FY 2022/2023 deducted

By Francis Lubega

18^th Jan 2022

Members of Parliament sitting on the parliamentary Defense committee have blamed the Finance Ministry for the continued deduction of the budget plans of the Uganda Police Force.

This arose after officials from UPF lead by IGP Martine Okoth Ochola informed the committee that in there coming budget frame work paper of the financial year 2022-2023, their budget  has been cut from over 900bnshs to 840bnshs which has left most of the crucial items either less or not funded.

Some of the affected items was radio calls which was budgeted for 70bnshs and only 5bnshs was allocated, criminal investigations budgeted 285bnshs and only allocated 42bnshs, phase III of CCTV cameras budgeted at 187bnshs but has been left unfunded, police welfare less funded, fuel allocated 45bnshs out of the requested 405bnshs among others.

It’s from this that the committee under the chairmanship of the Sheema district woman MP Rosemary Nyakikongoro resolved that the Finance Minister should be summoned for an engagement together with UPF bosses and the committee members to explain the scenario.