Lucky Patrick
Bunyangabu district council has last week passed the Budget Estimates for the Financial Year 2023-2024, worth 23.8 Billion Shillings.
In the Bunyangabu budget, Education and Health sectors take the lion share with 11 and 6 Billion Shillings respectively.
Budget breakdown
While reading the budget estimates before Council for approval, Kaija Kabaikya Amina the Secretary for Finance, Planning and Administration indicated that 1.5BN has been allocated to Administration, Finance (241m),Statutory Bodies (580m),Production and Marketing (670m), Roads and Engineering (2BN), Water (492m), Natural Resources (200m),Community Based Services (204m) among others.
Amina also revealed that as the district, they expect to collect only 400 million Shillings from Local Revenue, anticipating other funds to come from the Central Government.
She asserted that the coming Financial Year is likely to be highly constrained due to the devastating impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on the economy.
Government workers asked to observe financial discipline
Amina, noted that discipline in mobilization and utilization of the limited resources shall be the basis of success in implementing the next year’s Budget.
She thus calls for maximum financial discipline among the government workers especially those in Finance offices and the tax collectors.
Bunyangabu District and Limited Sources of Local revenues
Speaking to journalists shortly after the approval of the Budget, the LC5 Bunyangabu District, James Ategeka Mugarama, expressed a concern over lack of sources of local revenues in the district, saying the district collects little funds from the available local revenue sources.
Ategeka, added that many existing town councils in the district have affected the collection of local revenues of the district since town councils are self-governing entities of local government.
