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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Lawmakers on the Finance committee of Parliament yesterday tasked officials from the Ministry of Finance to explain persistent budget cuts done on the overall budgets approved by Parliament.<\/p>\n

The concern was raised by the committee chairperson, Mr Keefa Kiwanuka, questioning why the government releases funds less than the exact amount passed by Parliament.<\/p>\n

Like his committee members, Mr Kiwanuka said the budget cuts affected critical areas, which eventually translated into stalled government projects and had a direct effect on service delivery besides causing the backlog in sensitive Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were surprised that out of the money that you were supposed to have released, you went ahead and cut the Budget\u2026\u201d Mr Kiwanuka said.<\/p>\n

He made reference to concerns put to his knowledge by the Auditor General, Mr John Muwanga, who through a letter he claimed to have received, sought the August House to intervene on the matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a letter from the Auditor General complaining that their budget was cut when they have been struggling and they have a lot of backlog. This makes cynical people think that you are probably not interested in their work,\u201d Mr Kiwanuka said.<\/p>\n

In October last year, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Mr Ramathan Ggoobi, announced that government had slashed a total of Shs203.4b from some of its MDA as a measure to find resources to finance major priorities in the coming Financial Year 2021\/2022.<\/p>\n

At the time, Mr Ggoobi reasoned that the move was meant to enable the government to mitigate \u2018wasteful\u2019 expenditure and channel the available finances into areas that will revive the Covid-battered economy.<\/p>\n

As one of the outcomes of such cuts noted in May this year, local contractors in the roads sector under their umbrella body of Uganda National Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors petitioned Parliament to intervene to recover Shs500b held by the Uganda National Roads Authority in arrears.<\/p>\n

Such occurrences compelled lawmakers to raise concerns of the persistent move by the government demanding that such actions be revised.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has become completely your discretion on how much you get to release to an agency which we see as something about usurping the powers of Parliament because we would assume that once we have appropriated, you would go ahead and implement,\u201d Mr Kiwanuka added.<\/p>\n

GDP target<\/b><\/p>\n

The Otuke County MP, Mr Paul Omara, warned that the government risks failing to register economic growth plans if funds are released late.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t invest early in the year, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projections, which you have made, will not be achieved,\u201d Mr Omara said.<\/p>\n

The State minister Finance in charge of General Duties, Mr Henry Musasizi, said contrary to the expected 25 percent release for each quarter, his ministry released 19 percent to various MDAs and entities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened this year is that because of the circumstances which were prevailing, we have had to balance the monetary and fiscal projections which led us to take a decision to release 19 percent of the recurrent budget and all the ongoing development budget of the next quarter,\u201d Mr Musasizi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only mistake that we made and which we are correcting now is that we didn\u2019t go into details to ascertain where this 19 percent was going. And as a result of that, we have entities which are supposed to be protected, suffering a budget cut,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

As an immediate intervention, he said the ministry would undertake the detailed scrutiny into shortfalls that triggered the budget cuts and effect changes in a weeks time .<\/p>\n

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