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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Members of Parliament said yesterday that the Shs750 billion that Parliament moved around in the upcoming national budget was a result of having only a few hours to review corrections that raised the overall figure by Shs14 trillion.<\/b><\/p>\n

With a supermajority in the House, MPs from the ruling NRM party went on to rubber stamp the budget, Shadow Finance minister Ssemujju Nganda, who is also the MP for Kira Municipality and a member of the Opposition FDC party, said yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey brought a corrigenda of Shs14 trillion at midday, and remember the Speaker suspended Parliament at midday to return at 3pm; we were not ready then she pushed the suspension to 6pm,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A corrigenda is a list of printing errors in a book with their corrections. However, far from merely pointing out errors in the Shs58 trillion Budget that the Executive presented to Parliament on March 28, the corrections raised the Budget by Shs14 trilllion to a record Shs72 trillion.<\/p>\n

MPs approved the revised budget in a marathon session on May 7.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sat in the committee during the first suspension where we went through the corrigenda [but] all NRM MPs were shouting one word; pass-pass [and] I told them you can\u2019t do that,\u201d Mrf Ssemujju said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that, they went hiding in the committee. They were supposed to have returned the draft for us to go through, but we were instead called to go and sign.\u201d<\/p>\n

He warned that public finance rules might have been broken.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe law does not allow it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe law mandates them to bring the final figure they brought on March 28 which they broke. So, all of them are NRM MPs and executives involved in criminality. They kept bringing changes which are against the law. If you read the schedule in the Public Finance Management Act, the government must bring the [total budget] once.\u201d<\/p>\n

MPs effort<\/b><\/p>\n

The chairperson of the Committee on National Economy, Mr Robert Migadde Ndugwa, defended MPs.<\/p>\n

He told this newspaper that the Executive, represented by the Finance minister and others, was fully involved in the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it is true that indeed we exceeded the amount, then there is a problem with the Ministry of Finance because we have always seen the minister…and when it comes to the floor, there is a Leader of Government Business there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Migadde, who is also the Buvuma Islands County MP, defended MPs for changes to the Budget.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been a long-standing issue; there is a belief that Parliament\u2019s role is just to pass but I want to assure you that we appropriate as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have re-appropriated before. What you must know is that when the budget comes to Parliament, it is not yet a law which you say please don\u2019t tamper with this.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said MPs had reallocated money from \u201cwasteful\u201d trips and workshops to \u201ccritical\u201d areas. \u201cPeople have been demanding a lot of arrears, we have programmes of seedlings, compensations, among others so, for example, they wanted businesses to continue crashing yet we can do something? We think we have more interactions with the public than the Ministry of Finance and know what affects them more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr David Walakira, the executive director of the Centre for Budget and Tax Policy, said Parliament did the \u201cdumbest\u201d thing if it smuggled in the said Shs750b.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Executive always makes allocations and possible sources of the funds that is why it is wise to know where this money was allocated and we can start from there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201c[State Minister of Finance Henry] Musasizi was in Parliament that day so we may need to know how this money was smuggled in,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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