Published on 04/07/2024
The President of Uganda H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has signed the Appropriation Bill, 2024 (reconsidered) into law. The President assented to the bill today, Thursday, 4th July 2024.
“H.E Kaguta Museveni has this evening signed into law the Appropriation Act, 2024(Reconsidered),” Senior Presidential Press Secretary Sandor Lyle said on X, formerly Twitter.
The newly signed legislation indicates the amount of money to be spent by each government ministry, department and local government.
The law, among other things, authorizes withdrawal of funds from the Consolidated Fund by government authorities.
Before the Bill was reconsidered -with the reinstatement- by parliament on Tuesday, the Ugandan leader had declined to assent, accusing lawmakers of sabotaging government priorities by reallocating funds from key areas.
“There are three mistakes involved here. These are indiscipline in budgeting, sabotaging the national priorities and now the suspicion of massive corruption. I am, therefore, writing to request that this practice stops accordingly,” Museveni wrote in a June 22 letter.
