{"id":12431,"date":"2019-11-27T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T09:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=12431"},"modified":"2019-11-27T12:16:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T09:16:01","slug":"government-allocates-ugx-20b-to-flood-hit-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/government-allocates-ugx-20b-to-flood-hit-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Allocates UGX 20B to Flood-Hit Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The government has committed 20 billion shillings to cater for disasters caused by heavy rain in recent days in many parts of the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221;Onek said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Bahati  said what  can be done at the moment  given the cash situation is  20 billion  to cater for the emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some memebers of parliament blasted the ministry of finance for failure to plan for along term noting that the ministry has an hidden intention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has committed 20 billion shillings to cater for disasters caused by heavy rain in recent days in many parts of the country. 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