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Government Allocates UGX 20B to Flood-Hit Areas

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The government has committed 20 billion shillings to cater for disasters caused by heavy rain in recent days in many parts of the country.

The commitment was made by the State Minister of Finance for Planning, David Bahati in parliament after the State Minister of Relief and Disaster Preparedness, Musa Echweru gave a statement on the effects of floods.

“Madam speaker the climate change is real and the entire country need to rise up to make sure that we do what we called climate change mitigation,”Onek said.

“As we talk,t he prime minister is meeting the team from the ministry of finanace is to break this down as we have breoken and the total rewuirement will come to a lot of money ,something to do with about 43 billion,” he noted.

David Bahati said what can be done at the moment given the cash situation is 20 billion to cater for the emergencies.

“We shall go through the immediate items and the requests being processed we think in the next two days we should be able to release the money to the ministry,” he said.

Some memebers of parliament blasted the ministry of finance for failure to plan for along term noting that the ministry has an hidden intention.

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