Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has reprimanded government officials, accusing them of exaggerating the Shs56b budget request to conduct the Local Council elections.
According to Among, such amount is over and above what is required to conduct the elections for the local council leaders whose term of office expired on July 10, 2023.
In her communication during the plenary on Wednesday, Among dismissed as exaggerated the Shs56 billion that was reportedly asked to fund the LC1 elections.
She demanded that the figure is assessed and revised in order to generate more realistic amount.
“The problem we have is exaggerating figures, we can’t give Shs57 billion for that election; that’s a lot of money,” she said.
Ms Among further revealed that voting of LC1 is by lining behind a candidate, which does not require such huge sums of money as requested.
“What we want is a realistic budget and figure for us to allocate money for LC1 elections,
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