The Kibuku district council has approved a budget totaling to over Uganda shillings 27 billion.
The budget was passed on Tuesday at Kamu city Hotel in Kirika sub county and the Education and health sector have been given the lion’s share.
According to the budget, the Education sector has been allocated over shillings 12 billion, the health sector takes 6.9billion and production has been given shillings 1.3 billion while the works department has been allocated 1.7 billion shillings.
The water and sanitation department was given 800 million while the trade and industry department has been given 12 million and 600 million has been given to cater for the council activities.
Christopher Zungu Mupalama, the Secretay for Finance said the next year’s budget is a pro people budget noting that the education and health sectors are key to the needs of the people which is why the two have taken the lion’s share.
“The health and the education have taken the lion’s share of the budget” he stated in an interview.
Muhammad Nakeba, the Kibuku district LCV Chairperson, said that they made sure the district passed the budget as prescribed in the law which requires that by 30 May all local governments must have passed their budgets.
He said that the district started with a small budget of only 8 billion but it’s a great improvement to have hit a 27 billion budget.
“This budget prioritises schools, roads and health, the things that help the people, I appeal to the people of Kibuku to be calm as they wait for the implementation of this budget” he said.
The Kibuku Resident District Commissioner Harriet Nakamya, commended the councilors and the entire district leadership for successfully approving the budget. She said that it is now time for the leaders to serve the people and ensure that services reach them.
“In other districts, passing the budget, it is always not easy, you find leaders in clicks and make the activity hard but in Kibuku I have not seen that. I want to commend you for that gesture, it is now time to serve the people” she said.