Ruhinda South County

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I was with my new committee, Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises, today. Frankly speaking, the performance of committees is determined by the leadership. It is very key. I am sorry to say this, but nobody will blame me because sometimes it is factual. Where the chairperson and the vice chairperson are not within the country for 10 days, there will definitely be no work in committees. Parliament has a timetable; it has a calendar on how it moves. Once you follow the calendar, there is no way standing committees can avoid working, even during recess. We used to do that. We would go for recess, but committees remained working because you have to cover the work you were given by the committee. Performance is determined, and it is upon you, Mr Speaker and the Business Committee, to determine the evaluation of the chairpersons of committees. We shall be available. Moreover, it attracts an income for me whenever I attend; that is key for me. I do not look at that money as little; it offers many solutions to win again in my constituency. Mr Speaker, I am happy. Some accounting officers were already jubilating that they are going to throw out that business and they survive accountability. Let them know that we shall consider their accountability. Where they messed up with funds, we have them. I am not “ Kisanja no Sleep”; I am for “Remove it, and we go by the law” because people will sleep again. Mr Speaker, provide Members with effective facilitation and support in committees so that they can carry out their work diligently. If you tell me to go to the field and you think I will look after myself, then it will be a challenge. As a Member of Parliament, as I go to Budadiri or Mitooma to carry out my work, I expect consideration for my journey and everything to be available. These are facts that cannot cause debate in the public. A Member of Parliament carries out his or her oversight function with the support of Parliament, not from his or her own resources. Thank you.

Attorney- General will make me understand, I am a registered voter in my constituency. We have just finished the elections; you mean I must first go back to Mitooma to register? The Attorney- General will help clarify that. I had allowed the Workers’ Representative.

I request you put it in writing to the Minister for Works and Transport, Hon. Beecham, okay? Thank you. Honourable ministers, I request that we be very attentive because you are here to help the Prime Minister. No, let me go this side a bit. I had picked Lugazi, then I go this side and on a selfish note, I will start with Mitooma because he speaks for me; I cannot ask. Hon. Arthur Kazoora has to speak for me too. We are starting with Lugazi, Hon. Arthur Kazoora be rehearsing. You are next. PRIME MINISTER’S TIME

But, honourable minister, it is for the benefit of the whole nation, including the people in Mitooma. (Laughter) Would you like to update the House one day about this?

Mr Speaker, thank you for this opportunity. Rt Hon. Prime Minister, I represent Rubaga South Constituency and the people I represent want a permanent solution from Nateete to Busega road, Nateete–Nakawuka; if you know where Nateete Police Station is - Mr Speaker, I think that is where you pass when you are going to Mitooma. We need a permanent solution. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I do not intend not to recognise the nominations by my side of Government, but I tend to make an observation. By law, and you, as our chairperson, Mr Speaker, we think that you preside over the point of equity in this House. You have said it right that we may not be able to change it, but we want it to go on record. When I look at the composition of the commission under the Administration of Parliament Act, first of all, we have members who are designated automatically by their positions. That is the Speaker of Parliament, who comes from Tororo, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament from Mitooma, and the Prime Minister of the Government of Uganda, who is from Kakumiro, which is Western Uganda. The Minister of Finance is from Rubanda, and that is Western Uganda. I would not think that we here in Parliament have much to do because that is for the appointing authority. Regarding the remaining positions, it would be a matter of natural justice for this House to treat their composition equitably. I am looking at the central region, with almost one hundred members of Parliament, yet it is not represented on the commission. Much as we may not have much to do, it should go on record. Is it worth it? Is it really genuine? Is it okay for us to keep quiet? I would have kept quiet –

103. Ruhindi Fredrick Nakawa Division East Kampala NRM 104. Taban Aate Sharifah Woman Representative Koboko Independent 105. Ouma Willy Namayingo South County Namayingo Independent 106. Orone Derrick Gogonyo County Pallisa NRM 107. Tete Chelengat Everline Woman Representative Bukwo NRM 108. Tibyaze Peace Woman Representative Jinja NRM 109. Tom Aliti Candia Maracha East County Maracha NRM 110. Rwakimari Beatrice Ruhaama County Ntungamo NRM 111. Tumuramye Genensio Kashongi County Kiruhura NRM 112. Tumusiime John Bosco Kashari South County Mbarara NRM 113. Teira John Bugabula County North Kamuli NRM 114. Oryema Simon Peter Adum Chua West County Kitgum NRM 115. Turyahikayo Kebirungi Mary Paula Woman Representative Rukungiri NRM 116. Sebamala Richard Bukoto County Central Masaka DP 117. Tiyo William Taylor Odaa Ayivu Division East Arua City NRM 118. Ssebbugga-Kimeze Berunado Budyepo County Nakasongola NRM 119. Tayebwa Thomas Ruhinda North County Mitooma NRM 120. Otto Edward Makmot Agago County Agago NRM 121. Rwamirama Bright Kanyontore (Lt Col Rtd) Isingiro County North Isingiro NRM 122. Tebandeke Charles Bbaale County Kayunga NUP 123. Tukahirwa James Byenjuru Hunter Kajara County Ntungamo NRM 124. Tumukunde Henry Kakurugu (Lt Gen. Rtd) Rukungiri Municipality Rukungiri NRM 125. Tumwesigye Anthony Isingiro West County Isingiro Independent 126. Ssenyonyi Joel Basekezi Nakawa Division West Kampala NUP 127. Osoru Mourine Woman Representative Arua City NRM 128. Ossiya Solomon Alemu Toroma County Katakwi NRM 129. Shyam Jay Tanna Tororo Municipality Tororo Independent 130. Twalla Fadil Tingey County Kapchorwa NRM 131. Waluswaka James Bunyole West County Butaleja NRM 132. Tumwebaze Mwine Youth Representative Western NRM 133. Twinomujuni Francis Kazini Buhaguzi County Kikuube NRM 134. Otafiire Kahinda (Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Ruhinda County Mitooma NRM 135. Silwany Solomon Bukooli County Central Bugiri NRM 136. Otim Bernard Maruzi North County Apac NRM 137. Waiswa Joel Azalwa Busiki County Namutumba Independent 138. Ssemwanga Gyaviira Buyamba County Rakai NRM 139. Wakida Patrick Godfrey Kabweri County Kibuku NRM 140. Walyomu Moses Muwanika Kagoma County Jinja Independent 141. Wandera John Paul Samia Bugwe County North Busia Independent 142. Saazi Godfrey Gomba East County Gomba NUP 143. Wanyenya Shafiga Bungokho County North Mbale NRM 144. Twesige Stephen Buyaga East County Kagadi NRM 145. Twinamasiko Onesimus Bugangaizi East County Kakumiro NRM 146. Wandera Sadala Bugweri County Bugweri NRM 147. Tayebwa Didas Kabumbuza Kooki County Rakai NRM 148. Wanyama Judas Thadeo Youth Representative Eastern NRM 149. Sserukenya David Makindye-Ssabagabo Municipality Wakiso NUP 150. Sekindi Aisha Woman Representative Kalungu Independent

8 ADMINISTRATION OF OATHS 5. Kansiime Annah Woman Representative Rwampara NRM 6. Kanyesigye Mercy Youth Representative Female Independent 7. Kapyagon Brian Kongasis County Bukwo Independent 8. Karim Musa Aringa North County Yumbe Independent 9. Kasajja George Patrick Bulamogi North West County Kaliro NRM 10. Kasigwa Gerald Bihemaiso Kigorobya County Hoima NRM 11. Kasirye Nganda Ali Makindye East Division Kampala NUP 12. Kasukaali Methuselah Mwenge Central County Kyenjojo NRM 13. Kariisa Johnbosco Koy Buhweju West County Buhweju NRM 14. Katushabe Ruth Woman Representative Bukomansimbi NRM 15. Katusiime Annet Mugisha Woman Representative Bushenyi NRM 16. Kawalya Abubaker Rubaga Division North Kampala NUP 17. Kasaija Matia Buyanja County Kibaale NRM 18. Karuhanga Gerald Kafureeka Ntungamo Municipality Ntungamo Independent 19. Khalayi Peace Woman Representative Namisindwa NRMK 20. Kiirya Grace Paddy Wanzala Butembe County Jinja FDC 21. Kiiza Andrew N. Kaluya Kigulu County South Iganga NUP 22. Katushabe Doreen Birungi Woman Representative Lyantonde NRM 23. Kiyonga C.W.C.B. Bukonzo County West Kasese NRM 24. Muhwezi Jim Katugugu Rujumbura County Rukungiri NRM 25. Kenan Opio Busiro South Wakiso NRM 26. Kateshumbwa Dicksons Sheema Municipality Sheema NRM 27. Katusiime Jovia Woman Representative Kiryandongo NRM 28. Kiiza Kenneth Nyendwoha Bujenje County Masindi NRM 29. Kikabi Edward (Dr) Ntwetwe County Kyankwanzi NRM 30. Kinalwa James (Maj. Gen.) UPDF Representative N/A N/A 31. Kinobere Herbert Tom Kibuku County Kibuku Independent 32. Kinshaba Patience Nkunda Woman Representative Kanungu Independent 33. Kiruluuta Yusuf J. Nkerettanyi Kalungu County East Kalungu NUP 34. Kirumira Hassan Katikamu County South Luweero NUP 35. Kisekka Salim Bukomansimbi North County Bukomansimbi NRM 36. Kitiyo Patrick Kapchorwa Municipality Kapchorwa Independent 37. Kiyimba Emmanuel Bukoto County Mid-West Lwengo NRM 38. Kasule Ismail Hoima West Division Hoima City ANT 39. Khainza Agnes Shiuma Woman Representative Bududa NRM 40. Kugonza Emely Buyanja East County Kibaale NRM 41. Kungu Samuel Bamuteeze Kigulu County North Iganga NRM 42. Kwizera Eddie Wa-Gahungu Bukimbiri County Kisoro Independent 43. Kyambadde Amelia Ann Mawokota County North Mpigi NRM 44. Kyarampe Rebecca Woman Representative Mitooma NRM 45. Kyarikunda Loydah T. Woman Representative Mbarara NRM 46. Kisa Stephen Bakubalwayo Luuka South County Luuka NRM 47. Kavuma Samuel (Lt Gen.) UPDF N/A N/A 48. Kitanywa Sowedi Busongora County North Kasese NRM 49. Kizza Hakim Sawula Bukoto County South Lwengo NUP 50. Kuteesa Patrick Kimanya-Kabonera Division Masaka City NUP 51. Kwiyucwiny Grace Freedom Ora County Zombo NRM 52. Kibaaju Charity Kamuhanda Woman Representative Mbarara City NRM 53. Komol Joseph Miidi Dodoth North County Kaabong NRM 54. Karubanga Jacob Ateenyi Kibanda South County Kiryandongo Independent 55. Mwine Mpaka Rwamirama Mbarara South Division Mbarara City NRM

3 THE TWELFTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2026 57. Alum Santa Sandra Ogwang District Woman Representative Oyam UPC 58. Akoth Angella Nzokire District Woman Representative Tororo Independent 59. Alero Tom Aza West Moyo County Moyo NRM 60. Anywar Ricky Richard Agago West County Agago NRM 61. Aogon Silas Kumi Municipality Kumi Independent 62. Aol Betty Ocan City Woman Representative Gulu City PFF 63. Arinaitwe Jeniva District Woman Representative Rubirizi NRM 64. Arinaitwe Rwakajara Katambuka Workers Representative N/A NRM 65. Aseera Stephen Buhaguzi East County Kikuube NRM 66. Asiimwe Florence Akiiki District Woman Representative Masindi NRM 67. Attan Okia Moses Soroti East County Soroti City FDC 68. Kiconco Katabaazi Patrick Rukiga County Rukiga NRM 69. Atuhwereire Arthur Kazoora Ruhinda South County Mitooma NRM 70. Atukunda Rebecca Mubangizi District Woman Representative Kassanda NRM 71. Atuto Jacinta District Woman Representative Kapelebyong NRM 72. Atwijukire Boaz Katerera County Rubirizi Independent 73. Alupo Jessica Rose Epel District Woman Representative Katakwi NRM 74. Atwijukire Dan Kimosho Kazo County Kazo NRM 75. Acora Nancy Odonga District Woman Representative Lamwo NRM 76. Atyang Stella District Woman Representative Moroto NRM 77. Auma Janet District Woman Representative Amolatar UPC 78. Auma Kenny District Woman Representative Kwania UPC 79. Avako Melsa Naima Gule District Woman Representative Yumbe NRM 80. Anyango Janet Hope District Woman Representative Busia NRM 81. Ayagalachi Jamali Bukooli County Bugiri NUP 82. Achia Remigio Pian County Nabilatuk NRM 83. Ayepa Michael Labwor County Abim NRM 84. Ayoo Janeth Phoebe Obol District Woman Representative Gulu NRM 85. Apolot Christine District Woman Representative Kumi Independent 86. Ayume Charles Koboko Municipality Koboko NRM 87. Avur Jane Pacuto District Woman Representative Pakwach NRM 88. Atugonza Allan Buliisa County Buliisa NRM 89. Baatom Ben Koryang Dodoth West County Karenga NRM 90. Babirye Kityo Sarah Bukoto County East Masaka NRM 91. Babirye Milly Babalanda Budiope West County Buyende NRM 92. Ariko Herbert Edmund Okworo Gweri County Soroti NRM 93. Kakooza James Older Persons Representative Central NRM 94. Awor Betty Engola District Woman Representative Apac NRM 95. Engola Sam Erute County South Lira NRM 96. Baryomunsi Chris Kinkizi County East Kanungu NRM 97. Nabbanja Robinah District Woman Representative Kakumiro NRM (The House was suspended at 11.38 a.m.) (On resumption at 1.29 p.m., the Clerk presiding.) 98. Auma Linda Agnes District Woman Representative Lira NRM 99. Babanga Wilfred Erima Terego East County Terego NRM 100. Babula Noel Kataike Matilda District Woman Representative Budaka NRM 101. Bahireira Sylivia Tumwekwase District Woman Representative Kamwenge NRM 102. Bakireke Nambooze Betty Mukono Municipality Mukono NUP

Madam Speaker, the local governments with additional local revenue are the following: Arua City, Jinja City, Lira City, Mbale City, Apac Municipal Council, Agago District, Budaka District, Bugiri District, Buhweju District, Bulambuli District, Bushenyi District, Dokolo District, Jinja District, Kalilo District, Kasese District, Kyikube District, Koboko District, Kyegegwa District, Kyenjojo District, Kyotera District, Mbarara District, Mitooma District, Moroto District, Nakapiripirit District, Nakasongola District, Namisindwa District, Obongi District, Pallisa District, Rubanda District, Rubirizi District, Rukiga District, Sironko District, Tororo District, among others. (Interjections) Madam Speaker, we have also provided Shs 72.9 billion as additional disbursement by the World Bank for the Generating Growth Opportunities and Productivity for Women Enterprises(GROW) project. The World Bank approved and disbursed additional funds for GROW project. These funds must be utilised, or the grant will be cancelled at the end of this financial year. Madam Speaker, I now come to the supplementary expenditures that are above the 3 per cent legal limit that require additional financing. The total is Shs 463.15 billion, and the particulars are as follows: i. Shs 56.95 billion for LC1, LC2, and Women Council Committee elections countrywide as directed by the Cabinet. These funds are required to support the Electoral Commission in fully implementing the electoral roadmap, as already approved by the Cabinet. ii. Shs 29.57 billion for AFCON 2027 preparatory activities. Honourable members, the Cabinet directed that we fully fund AFCON 2027, beginning with the immediate requirement in this Financial Year 2025/2026. These funds are required to implement the urgent preparatory works, reduce implementation risk and keep the overall AFCON 2027 preparation programme on schedule. The activities include the following; i) Shs 14.1 billion for preliminary works at Kabalega International Airport. This one will go to the Ministry of Works and Transport. ii) Shs 8.03 billion for priority road works and associated support activities in Kira Municipal Council. iii) Shs 3.06 billion for pitch improvement at Kadiba Football Stadium. iv) Shs 0.31 billion for branding of host cities and content production for the Destination Uganda documentary. v) Shs 1.0 17 billion for Hoima City and Masindi Municipality to finance sanitation and road safety interventions. vi) Shs 1.02 billion for meteorological and aviation safety support system. vii) Shs 1.8 billion for water utility preparatory works for the Hoima cluster. Madam Speaker, we also require; COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHAIR

What is the procedural point about? He is a Member of Parliament for Mitooma. He has just come to tell me that he loves me. That is, it. (Laughter)

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I raise a matter of national importance and concerns about the plight of smallholder tea farmers in the Greater Bushenyi. Igara Growers Tea Factory was opened in 1969, and then Buhweju Tea Factory was also opened in 2010. Both tea factories are owned by smallholder tea farmers from the districts of Buhweju, Sheema, Mitooma, Rubirizi, and Bushenyi. The farmers hold about one million shares worth Shs 5 billion as bona fide shareholders. Both factories employ more than 1,300 staff – skilled and semi-skilled – and thousands of others on farmers’ estates who are paid on a monthly and contract basis. They have been commanding a turnover of about Shs 60 billion per annum. In recent years, we have – and I in particular – been informing this august House about the huge challenges in the tea industry in Uganda. Finally, the Igara and Buhweju tea factories ceased operations in early March this year. This spells economic doom for the stakeholders mentioned above and the country economically. My prayers are: 1. I ask the Government to urgently intervene and rescue the tea farmers. 2. The Government should expedite the much-craved-for tea policy so that it can ameliorate some of the challenges causing hardships in the sector. 3. Thorough investigations into the mismanagement aspects should be carried out to find out the causes that led to the closure of our tea factories to our detriment. I beg to move.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I want to comment on the budget timelines. However, before I do that, let me also take this opportunity to congratulate you upon your victory in Mitooma - and I would like to congratulate all the colleagues who were able to make it back to this House. And more so, I want to congratulate His Excellency, the President, Yoweri Museveni, and the NRM party, for the massive victory. Mr Speaker, on the budget timelines – (Interjections) - can I be protected from my brother, Hon. Basalirwa?

Or Mitooma -

Or Mitooma. We have roads, and I have no relatives in the finance ministry, but at least Hon. Lugoloobi and Hon. Tebandeke are now at par with this loan, whatever is coming, because it is going through their area. However, we, who have nobody there, no minister, what do we do?

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for allowing me. I thank the minister for laying all these loan proposals. However, we raise eyebrows on these loans and complaints from honourable members because there are several new districts, including mine, which do not have a single tarmac road, but when it comes to paying back the loans, we are always part of the payment scheme. One time, Mr Tortoise visited heaven and borrowed feathers from the birds. He told them that when we reach and they bring food, we should ask whose food it is. The birds that gave him feathers never ate because whenever they asked whose food, the response was “All of you.” Mr Tortoise had named himself, “All of you,” and all the food was his! Therefore, my procedural matter is: Why don’t we give priority to some of these new districts whenever we borrow so that three or five of them will have some money, through these loans, for tarmac every financial year? In Kalungu, we only have one tarmac road from the church to the Nuns, which was given during the celebration of 100 years. I have been to Kalangala and visited several districts; many loans are brought, but no consideration. Lwemiyanga-Sembabule have some small tarmac these days. Isingiro District has. Mr Speaker, why don’t you help us - when these loans come, even people from Kalungu and Mitooma are paying, but there is no benefit - not a single tarmac road for new districts - apart from those leading us from the main road that we have made. (Hon. Musasizi rose) - Honourable minister, that is my prayer. So, I am tired of having all of you, and yet when it comes to eating, I do not get anything - (Member timed out.)

Thank you so much, com - mittee chairperson. (Applause) Honourable members, in the public gallery this after - noon, we have pupils and teachers from Holis - tic Junior School from Mitooma District who participated in the Father Grimes National School Chess Champions, where they emerged winners and will represent Uganda in the World Schools Chess Championship, scheduled to take place in the United States of America in August. You are most welcome. (Applause) Congratulations, and thank you so much for coming. They are represented by the Rt Hon. Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa, and Hon. Juliet Agasha. You are most welcome. Thank you so much for coming, and thank you for sending us very good leaders. Hon. Juliet, greet your people. Have you seen them? Come right here. Greetings from the Rt Hon. Deputy Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Congratulations to Holistic; it is a good primary school in Bitereko Subcounty, which is in Mitooma. It is represented by the Rt Hon. Deputy Speaker and myself. They have many extracurricular activities. We request that all of you support us when they are going to Washington DC, in America. We request that you all keep supporting extracurricular activities. (Applause) These people come from a remote place, but because of their talent, they are able to reach this far. May God bless you, Madam Speaker. Thank you so much; congratulations once again.

It seems Mitooma has talent; even the Deputy Speaker is very good at golf.

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17262 THE HIDESAND SKINS (EXPORT DUTY) (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2025 Margaret, Hon. Acuti, the Member of Parliament for Butaleja, Dr Kamara, Hon. Akello, and the Members of Parliament for Mitooma, Mbarara and Ibanda. The others are: Hon. Jennifer, the Member of Parliament for Maracha, Dr Emily, Hon. Betty, Hon. Atima Lee, Hon. Goli, the Members of Parliament for Bukedea, Alebtong and Zombo, Dr Ayume, Member of Parliament for Ngora, and the Deputy Chairperson of the Committee on Budget, Hon. Achia and Hon. Leku. Even mama Mavenjina and Hon. Hellen. Speak to your motion.

Thank you. This has been the greatest submission since we started. (Laughter) Yes, but honourable minister, I know you should be able to update us. I know there is a good update on the Ncwera Bridge – yes, I have been in touch. Since the honourable member has raised it, the road from Ishaka, that is from Kizinda, through Hon. Annet’s area to my constituency, honourable colleagues who visited me last time when I hosted the President, we thanked him for the good road. The Speaker and honourable colleagues called and asked: “Why didn’t you make us pass through that good road, which you are thanking the President for?” I said, no, it is the one you used – people have never forgotten. When some of us are complaining, we cannot come here very much. Honourable minister, we are dying silently. What is painful is that I do not have any Central Government roads in my constituency. We neighbour three districts. The districts of Bushenyi and Mitooma made recommendations for you to take over the road that comes from Kizinda, through Mitooma, and connects to Rukungiri – just a takeover, but

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mine is about the Mbarara-Kabwohe– Bushenyi-Ishaka Road. This road was in the National Development Plan I, II, III, and it has now been carried forward to NDPIV. When the report was being read, I was very sure, 100 per cent, that I would see this road in this budget. To my dismay, it is nowhere to be seen. In 2021, His Excellency, the President, directed Uganda National Road Authority (UNRA) then to rehabilitate the road, but the road is in a sorry state. It is too potholed despite its economic benefits. This morning, I took the initiative to call the regional traffic officer to give me the statistics of how many people have perished on that road. In Bushenyi alone, 23 people have died since January to date. Shema - 32, Rubirizi - 14, Mitooma - 7 and Buhweju - 8. In total, between January to date, 84 have perished on that road. Those are the ones that are known, but some are not known. Mr Speaker, it is very unfortunate and regrettable. Honourable minister, kindly, look for money from somewhere, because this road cannot wait - and work on this road. This is a road that connects very many tourist destinations. It is a road that connects to the Residence District Commissioner, Mpondwe Border - (Member timed out. )

Honourable colleagues, I would like us to be very cautious about that issue. I have given you my example. Sometimes, you judge the west – “the west is having much”. Come to my constituency. Come to Buhweju. In my constituency, I have told you I do not have a single Central Government road. I think, honourable colleagues, have been putting issues here. Let us look at this from a national outlook, but when we start saying, “this area, that area”, some of us will also say, call a caucus of the eastern region and see where Mitooma is. That is not helpful. However, what Hon. Jonathan Ebwalu says is that let us ensure we have equity. For example, I visited the Zombo area – the Gori Road. It is really unfortunate. When we say we are working on a road in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), that road would open us to DRC - that area of the West Nile. You would have opened a huge economic activity if you opened that area.

Hon. Nambeshe, you have put it well. You and I were on the Committee on Natural Resources in the 10th Parliament. You know how much coverage the oil roads – not Bunyoro roads, contributed to that percentage of Western Uganda. Do not call them western roads, they are oil roads. I remember the long debate we had in this House, and the issue was, for you to extract your oil, you must build these roads to take the equipment, whatever. Now, if the roads were for oil, I cannot complain that they were not built in Mitooma. Otherwise, I would have also quarrelled at that time and said, “Give part of it to Mitooma.” But if you put it in Mitooma, how do you extract the oil? That was the logic. Honourable colleagues, that is a very delicate route, because even within us, also in Western Uganda, some of us are not happy. Look at that percentage of the oil roads, honourable. It is the one which has made Western Uganda look like it has so much, and I was with you.

Thank you. Now that the list is no longer part of the report, we can move very well, honourable colleagues. We do not discuss what has been withdrawn. On a very selfish note, I will start with Mitooma, then Kalangala, Hon. Santa, Hon. Karubanga, Hon. Chemaswet and honourable members for Ibanda and for Apac. I know why I picked those special cases - and Hon. Bumali Mpindi, and Member for Youth. I will give you time, honourable colleagues, but let us use our style of two minutes so that we get more people.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Thank you for the good report, the Committee on Education and Sports. My issue is on the rephased PTCs. I have an institution in Mitooma; Bikungu PTC, which was phased out in 2023. I have been following it up and I have been told that it has been repurposed to become a polytechnic; a teachers’ instructor’s school. Up to now, the school has been abandoned. The institution has a lot of land, but that land has now been encroached on. When I observe most of the teachers who were well-trained as primary school teachers, some are retiring, others are resigning, and others are dying. Soon, we are not going to have real primary school teachers. Most of the PTCs around Greater Bushenyi: Kitabi PTC, there was Ruyonza - all of them are no longer in place. Honourable minister, I request to know the fate of our children in the very few years to come, when most of the teachers are out of service? Secondly, the committee chairperson talked about teachers’ salaries. Arts teachers are asking, “I hear you are talking about deputy head teachers and the head teachers. What about those who go to the classroom to teach?” We need to have – (Member timed out.)

Thank you, Mr Speaker. When we talk about education in this country, it pains me a lot because when you move throughout the country and you look at the status of the schools in this country, most especially the primary schools. Some pupils are still studying under trees in the very country that we are in. Some teachers are still sleeping in grass-thatched houses. Some children are still sitting on the floor. They have classrooms that have not even been worked on. The children are sitting in the dust, and you expect such a child to come and compete with children who are in Kampala. I think in the country that we are developing; education is meant for the children of the rich. We have left the children of the poor to remain in the village, and they will never come to Kampala or even join Makerere. As a country, I was born in the NRM Government, but I am UPC by blood. If we are to remember some of the schools that were built in the Obote Government, how was the education sector in the Obote Government? Children were picked from Mitooma, some villages, very far from Kampala. Children of the villagers, children whose fathers cannot pay school fees, but because they are bright, they were brought from their villages. Some of them, even their parents, have never seen Kampala, but were brought by the Government to come and study under Government sponsorship. Now, when we are talking about the Government - (Member timed out.)

Certainly not Kasi - lo and I do not think Mitooma would compare anyway. The scenic beauty of the Pearl of Uganda is unparalleled. That aside, permit me, to lay on the Table a report, minutes and related documents of the Committee on East African Community Affairs on the ministerial policy statement of Ministry of East African Community Affairs for Finan - cial Year 2025/2026. I go straight to the recommendations and ob - servations made by the Committee on East Af - rican Affairs. Programme Implementation Action Plan The committee notes that there was no information for the base year and baseline indicators in the ministerial policy statement of the ministry. The committee recommends that this issue be brought to the attention of the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to review the Programme Budgeting System to allow incorporation of the baseline year and indicators on the system. ii. Expiry of the strategic plans for the ministry and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies The committee recommends that the National Planning Authority and the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development fast track completion of the strategic plan of the MDAs, including the ministry, in order to enable them to monitor implementation of the National Development Plan IV. iii. Limited awareness about the existence and benefits of the East African Community integration The committee makes several recommendations: a. The Ministry of East African Community Affairs expedites the formulation of a communication strategy for the ministry, in order to create the right approaches for effective communication to create awareness to the populace of the benefits of the integration and how they can tap into the available trade opportunities;

Honourable minister, sorry for the interruption, but I wanted to put it the way I understood her point. Kindly allow me a minute. I want to give you an example. My district Mitooma, especially my constituency for colleagues who have visited it, is one of the hard-to-reach areas. What situation am I getting? Teachers and some of the schools use it as an opportunity to get on the payroll but immediately move out. We are a stepping ground. I was in the constituency last week. You find schools and all teachers have been taken away. They just came and lobbied because there were gaps. We pushed and recruited, but people find their way and go out. Parish chiefs. Now, you get a parish chief from a district which is a hundred miles away to come and be a parish chief in a parish deep in my area, where he will need a house and transport to work, yet the money they earn is little. What do you end up having? You end up having people who are moving around and looking for small deals and all that, to top up what they get. Therefore, to me, what I understood was that some of the jobs in local government should be taken by the locals who understand the local situation. (Applause) I do not think that if you have schools in my constituency and you gave them teachers from Mitooma District, they would run away from the conditions of Mitooma. That is where they are going to be buried, and that is where their homes are, and they work while developing their area. (Applause) Therefore, I do not want us to look at it from an angle of saying that the honourable member for Busia is saying they do not want people from other districts to work in Busia. No, why did we decentralise recruitment? I thought it was to make sure that locals in the area are given an opportunity because; (i) The pay is low. (ii) They easily adapt to the conditions in the area. However, now, you bring people who do not even understand the language of the area, and they move around looking for interpreters. That

I take note of Dr Nsaba Buturo’s concerns. Hon. Sarah is saying wage not supported by corresponding non-wage. We are going to look at and address it in the future. This is good feedback for us to improve. Hon. Acen, on Uganda Microfinance Regulatory Authority (UMRA) issue. was referring to the structure within the ministry. This issue has been addressed within our structure. We have given UMRA a semi-autonomous status to enable it to continue performing its functions when it was independent of the ministry. Mr Speaker, Uganda Microfinance Regulatory Authority (UMRA) is responsible for regulating all the SACCOs in Uganda, right from licensing to everything. We do not want to lose this core function because some of the SACCOs do not want to be licensed and regulated by Bank of Uganda, especially Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) – Wazalendo – and our SACCO here in Parliament. We have created a semi- autonomous structure, which will take care of the concerns that these big stakeholders have been raising. Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has been arrogant to service providers – Mr Speaker, sometimes, from my personal experience, when you tell people the truth, they say you are arrogant. Sometimes we tell people “we do not have money; wait” and they say these people are very arrogant. This is in relation to domestic arrears, to which I have committed that in three years, we shall have substantially cleared the outstanding arrears. We are also very explicit on accounting officers who continue to commit the Government without resources. In this budget, we have adequately provided for those areas, which have been causing us domestic arrears issues. Hon. Christine would like to know the status of the Consolidated Fund in respect of returned funds at the end of the financial year. Mr Speaker, when we changed the Public Finance Management Act, we created a Treasury Single Account, where all funds of the Government must be collected and deposited on the Consolidated Fund. The funds are spent from Treasury on what we call the Treasury Single Account. This means that when you go to a district like Mitooma this evening – we have reconciled – there is no money there. Even for this Parliament, there are no funds that have stayed on the account. You can only initiate an invoice and we pay. We no

Seconded by Hon. Huda, Hon. Okumu, Lt Col Alanyo, Col Dr Nekesa, Hon. Ricky, Hon. Mutembuli, honourable member for Aruu, Hon. Joan, Hon. Isaac, Hon. Basil, Hon. Peter, Honourable member for Mitooma, Hon. Ogwang, Hon. Annet, Hon. Noah, Hon. Mourine, Hon. Max, Honourable member for Pallisa, Honourable member for Gogonyo, Honourable member for Kumi, Hon. John, Honourable member for Kyankwanzi, Hon. Acan, Honourable member for Ibanda, Honourable member for Dokolo, Honourable member for Sheema, Hon. Feta, Hon. Jessica, Honourable member for Ibanda, Dr Mushemeza, Hon. Acrobert Kiiza, Hon. Omoding and honourable member for Abim. Would you like to speak to your motion?

Honourable colleagues, I had kept quiet on this; but you talked about quality. If our tea is just used for mixing, how will we even negotiate, with a country to take our tea just mixing? We, who make this kasese waraji , you know, the money for buying my first trouser came from that kind of waragi . There is one we call “juure”, it is for mixing before you get the real waragi, which knocks you out. Those who produce that one from - and now upgraded, in Mitooma; we no longer produce the one you drink. We produce the one we call ‘science.’ This one is watery and not our level. You can see the quality. Oh, there is the Alcohol Bill here – Hon. Sarah Opendi. Anyhow, to emphasise the issue of quality, I have a friend who owns MacDowell Tea. They are the sole suppliers of tea to the royal family in Britain. He sells tea to the royal family and Heralds, from a small garden, but the money he makes - it is all about quality and history. The moment you produce quality; you are on the way to making history. There is even what they call white tea. People who know tea very well - because tea is mainly in the countries that were formerly British colonies - you find a small bag of tea costing US $1,000. Someone gave me a gift of tea, which I will not declare to the Inspector-General of Government, which was 80 years old, fermented in bamboo. However, when you look at the history and you see the cost of it - tea of $1,000 - what we are making is really annoying when country in the neighbourhood earns three times our price. This is not only about negotiating. You will only negotiate if you have good quality. If you do not have it - so, we should never underrate the issue of quality in any way possible. I was going to pick Hon. Kyooma. Then I pick Zombo. Colleagues who have already submitted on other matters, I am sorry. I am not giving you a chance on this.

16004 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT [Ms Nayebale] had since the gazettement of Uganda Wildlife (Compensation Scheme) Regulations, 2022, convened 12 times, verified 583 claims, and recommended the same to the Board of Trustees for approval. You can see the extract in Appendix H. The committee was informed by UWA that factors such as increasing human-wildlife population, wildlife habitat loss, climate change and wildfires, have orchestrated human-wildlife conflict. The committee was further informed by UWA that despite clear boundary demarcations, human beings residing in areas adjacent to national parks have defied such demarcations, and opted to carry out activities such as crop cultivation, firewood collection, and livestock grazing within the boundaries of the national parks. Mr Speaker, the committee observes as follows: 1. Wild animals, especially elephants, have particularly invaded human settlement areas and destroyed lives and property. 2. Unlike human beings, wild animals are oblivious to the existence of national park boundaries and will instantly migrate to locations where they once lived, fed and bred. For instance, in Alerek Village Abim District, elephants have continued to invade human settlement areas and destroy crops despite the presidential intervention through the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) to drive out herds of elephants using helicopters, back to Kidepo National Park. Similar challenges of elephant invasions have persisted in Kiyanga Village in Mitooma District and in Gonycogo Village in Nwoya, among other areas. The growth of invasive plant species which destroy wild animal pasture and inadequate water sources in most national parks during dry spells, has often forced wild animals to move beyond gazetted national park boundaries into private and community land. The lack of clear physical boundaries and demarcation of national parks, has particularly occasioned wildlife habitat loss, as humans have engaged in livelihood activities such as agriculture, lumbering, poaching, fishing, and mining, thus pushing out wild animals from their known natural habitat. For instance, in Mbuga Village in Katerera County, hippos and other wild animals were reported to have pitched camp in nearby swamps and in crater lakes. Recommendations of the committee Mr Speaker, the committee recommends as follows: 1. The Government, as a matter of urgency, takes deliberate measures to provide sustainable relief food items to residents of Alerek and Gonycongo in Abim and Nwoya districts, respectively, and to other affected areas throughout the country; 2. The Government takes deliberate measures to fence off gazetted areas and employ other measures like the digging of trenches, community engagements, and educational initiatives to foster and promote human- wildlife coexistence in order to mitigate the incidence of human-wildlife conflicts; 3. The Government reclaims and restores the encroached upon areas to make them habitable for wild animals; 4. Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) should construct valley dams in national parks with a view of ensuring sustainable supplies of water to wild animals; 5. UWA, in collaboration with Uganda Wildlife Research Training Institute and other research institutes, carries out research on invasive species with the aim of controlling and eradicating them to deter the movement of wild animals from national parks to human settlement areas;

Thank you. Honourable colleagues, just give me a minute and I will give you information on the issue of the boundaries. I went to welcome the committee as an area Member of Parliament for Ruhinda North when they came to visit Queen Elizabeth National Park on this issue. Honourable minister and Attorney-General, the Director for Legal Affairs in UWA updated us on what they were doing. It will require you, honourable minister, to see how it can be expedited in Cabinet. UWA sat down and said, let us be realistic. Which one is our land? Which land are we occupying? Why are we quarrelling with people every day? People say, “We are entering.” They say the Constitution stops them from de-gazetting but not from adjusting their boundaries properly. This is where the problem is. We shall need help because this is the same Government here. Honourable Attorney-General, what is funny is that if you are to go by the boundaries they are talking about, in Mbale alone, the city will be gone. My home in Mitooma will be gone because when our parents came in 1952, the government then gave them Queen Elizabeth National Park. We have three subcounties of Bakiga down there. The moment you are to follow your boundaries – Recently, the National Forestry Authority (NFA) came and said, “You are in the Maramagambo Forest” and marked it. People started running around. We cause panic as if we are not serving the people of Uganda. Why don’t we live a realistic life? Therefore, minister in charge of UWA and the Attorney-General, why I called on you is for you to interest yourself in what they have done. They said they did a mapping. I think, honourable minister, the updated one is for around 2022. They have an updated one.

15922 THE NATIONAL BUDGET FRAMEWORK PAPER FOR THE FY 2025/2026 - 2029/2030 Mr Speaker. I will start with the GDP, which has been said to have increased from Shs 144 trillion to Shs 154 trillion, but the tax revenue is not growing in response to that. I believe these tax holidays should be checked. Secondly, I go to education. My district submitted a request for four Seed Schools in 2021. However, The New Vision published the list and my district was left out. So, I wonder what happened in the budgeting process. On Capitation Grant, Shs 6,000 per child per term translates to Shs 75 per day on an average of 80 days in a term. Surely Shs 75 is too little to support a child. On health, the Government of USA has recently suspended aid to many countries including Uganda, and I think we should refocus our budget to make sure that people who are on ARVs are taken care of, and also to ensure Health Centre IIs are upgraded to Health Centre IIIs, and Health Centre IVs are completed. We created town councils way back in 2016/2017 but these town councils are not being funded completely. In my town councils, people do not have any services – no roads, no nothing. Last time, emoluments LC-I to LC-V had appeared in the budget, and the President had indicated that it was – but it evaporated from the budget last time. I beg that this time it is considered so that the emoluments of LC-I leaders are increased. Electricity - we have naked poles across the country, especially in Kashari North since 2021. How shall we promote value addition without electricity? Second to last, let me say something about the Bwizibwera-Buhweju-Kabwoohe-Mitooma Road. In NDP IV, now it has been listed as pre- feasibility yet it has been featuring in NDP I up to NDP III. What happened? Lastly, domestic arrears. I saw a figure from Hon. Ssemujju of Shs 14 trillion. If we allocate Shs 200 billion per year, it will take us 70 years to pay off these domestic arrears if we stop accumulating any new ones. I beg to submit, Mr Speaker.

15942 THE NATIONAL BUDGET FRAMEWORK PAPER FOR THE FY 2025/2026 - 2029/2030 However, look at the gaps that are in the energy sector. For sustainable energy, this time, we have only allocated, as far as the indicative figures are concerned, Shs 21 billion. In that Shs 21 billion, there are about four sectors, four to five components in the ministry. When you look at rural electrification, it might end up with about Shs 2 billion. How are we going to transform and get this country into value addition if we cannot scale-up on that? Even when you look at the consideration for hard-to-reach areas, which would have benefitted from projects like ORIO, which is supposed to be in Mitooma, among others, we have funding that has been secured from development partners, ground-breaking is going to take place, but we have a funding gap as far as counterpart funding is concerned. That needs about Shs 17 billion, and this is for hard-to-reach areas. When are we going to get the country balanced if we cannot provide such resources to get those areas that also need to be brought up to benefit? Solar has, in the meantime, given us leverage, but solar also needs funding of about Shs 3.7 billion to promote the best solutions that are available so far. Therefore, we need to look at these options so that we can support our people in moving on. The Minister of Local Government has secured some funds in the form of grants and this — (Member timed out.)

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Allow me to thank the committee for the report. My concern is on how we prioritise the few resources available. Two years ago, we passed a loan here for intensification of electricity connections countrywide. This loan was national in character and every Member here supported the passing of the loan. I saw you witnessing launches in Mitooma and I also saw people witnessing launches in Teso, but to date, no connections have been made. We made people to connect their buildings – do the wiring – but nothing has happened. Iganga was allocated 16,000 connections but to date, no single connection has taken effect. How are we utilising the few available resources, as we scramble for more resources? The other one is to do with Bukoyo Senior

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I rise on a matter of national importance, about the hailstorm that struck some villages in Katenga subcounty, Mitooma District. On Sunday, the 19 th Day of January this year, some parishes of Katenga, that include Igambiro and some villages in Karire and Sazinga in Rukararwe subcounty, were seriously destroyed by the hailstorm. Previously, some other villages in Kanyabwanga and Rurehe subcounties were also affected, but that was the time when we were not here; we were in recess, and I did not raise the matter. We have the detailed report from the district. My prayer is that the affected residents get supplies of beans and posho. Additionally, I request for some iron sheets for some churches that were destroyed.

Thank you. Honourable minister, the Chief Administrative Officer(CAO) of Mitooma District has already transmitted it to your office. Kindly follow up from there. Hon. Anthony Akol?

Thank you, Mr Speaker. As you know, I do not always rise up on such issues but we seem to be dealing with a systematic problem; it is not about Luzira. The learned Attorney-General should be talking about the entire prisons service. (Applause) We might be thinking it is Luzira, but somewhere in Mitooma, there, in a prison, is somebody who has not received justice for 10 or 20 years. Therefore, this issue is not only about the Uganda Prisons Service but it is also about the Judiciary and the Directorate of Public Prosecution. If you have investigated a matter and you have a suspect or an accused person and you have not prosecuted him for 20 years, then this is something that should attract further investigation, including a judicial commission of inquiry. It is not only illegal, but it is certainly unconstitutional. The Constitution of the Republic of Uganda demands for a fair, speedy trial – It is a constitutional command. How can 20 years - you know, somebody has been arrested and is now begging you to be prosecuted but he begs for 20 years saying, “Please prosecute me”. We cannot sit here as legislators - not these guys who put on wigs as judges - to say they are dispensing a system of justice, which keeps somebody in jail for 20 years without due process of the law. Therefore, Mr Speaker, as the Attorney- General comes after the days you have given him, I think he should be able to look at the entire prisons service and give us statistics. Thank you.

Thank you. Hon. Rita Atukwasa, what you are saying is in line with what Hon. Niwagaba said, that clarify to the police officer - this clarification would be good so that they know it is not just a matter of denying. Ensure people are tried. If they are not tried within the constitutionally limited time, give them bond. Of course, village thieves are a big problem. Someone just came to my trees. He had the audacity to cut trees and even bring a lorry to load. (Laughter) He is from around there, and then they go to Mitooma and get bonded. Then for coffee; you do coffee, and they harvest it on your behalf. You do seedlings, when they want to go and get a drink, they pass by your nursery bed, steal and sell around 10 them and get money for waragi. It is a big problem, but I mean – voters. Yes, Hon. Onzima.

Now, honourable colleagues, these issues that we are talking about, there are two things that I have been told. One, I was told that when you get fresh fish tie it on the front of your car, and drive from Masaka up to Mitooma, where you have to do around 60 kilometres of dust – I am told you are just collecting all the waste, all the faeces, the bitumen, the wires and everything onto the fish. And, even if you cook - that is what I see many people doing as if it is fashionable. Then, they host us, and we eat. Number two, on the issue of condemned meat, I also got a bad story that most of this minced meat is condemned meat. This is the meat, I am told, they use in the samosas, in sausages - that is what I was told; I do not have evidence – but, because it is crushed, you will not know. Yeah! Even these calves – I am told these guys do not leave behind anything. They just put it in, mince it – for us who own dogs, that is the one they would give; minced meat is the cheapest for dogs. Then, for these people who make samosas and sausages, that is what they go and - So, because of that, I do not take those sausages and samosas and all that. (Laughter) I have shared the story that I heard. Engineer?

Is the motion seconded? It is seconded by Hon. Ogwang, Hon. Kubeketerya, Hon. Iddi, Hon. Edakasi, Hon. Afidra, Hon. Patience, MP from Mitooma, Hon. Okeyoh, and by the whole side, including Hon. Mbwatekamwa, MPs from Aruu, Nakawa, Jinja, Hon. Zijjan, DP, Hon. Acuti, Hon. Kelly, Hon. Apea, Hon. Lamwaka, Hon. Alanyo, Hon. Nekesa, Hon. Josephat, Hon. Aber, Hon. Linos, Hon. Avur - I like that you have refused to sit. Okay, would you give us the objectives of your Bill?

Thank you. Honourable members, let us follow our rules and handle that. I am happy that the person was taken to prison for the misconduct. I would like to thank you so much. Yes, Mitooma - honourable minister, the issue of the security personnel having raincoats? Internal Affairs -

Yes, the honourable member for Mitooma.

However, we will need to check our records if he has not been asking for permission not to be in the House. Yes, the honourable member for Mitooma, then Zombo and Hon. Rose.

Is it seconded? It is seconded by the Chairperson of the Committee on Information, Communications Technology and National Guidance, the Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries and the Chairperson of the Committee on Public Accounts (Local Government). The representative for Older Persons, Hon. Margaret, Hon. Rose; Member of Parliament for Mitooma, Hon. Richard, Chairperson of the Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and Hon. Baka - by the whole. Then, we have Hon. Kisa, Hon. Emmanuel, Hon. Koluo, Hon. Acuti, Hon. Catherine and Hon. Muhammad. Hon. Omoding, Hon. Noah, Member of Parliament for Alur, Hon. Prof. Mushemeza and Hon. Nandutu. Hon. Rose. Hon. James, Hon. John and Hon. Apea. Would you speak to your motion?

Hon. Rita, Member for Mitooma, Hon. Isaac. Hon. Isaac, where have you been?

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I am a teacher by profession and before I joined politics, I was a Director of Studies at Lubiri Secondary School here in Lubaga. Madam Hon. Rwabushaija was my boss so I am not telling any lies. (Laughter) She was my Deputy Head Teacher at the Lubiri Secondary School. I thank the minister for inviting us to celebrate the teachers. My colleagues and Rt Hon. Speaker, you will all agree with me that teachers are heroes. (Laughter) Therefore, my request - actually, mine are almost only requests – is that we have a public holiday, like we have Heroes Day, to celebrate the teachers. This is because you find that when others are celebrating, others are in class teaching. I usually see it in my constituency in Mitooma. When the celebrations are in one constituency, you find that the schools in other constituencies are operating normally. I have another request, Madam Speaker. Teachers in my constituency have formed associations; they call themselves “Teachers in Action”. They are the ones now building classrooms, accommodation and using their own money to do our work under the Government -

Thank you. Honourable colleagues, there is something - I know someone might have reached out to you. There is someone who is trying to defraud and con Members of Parliament, saying that “Transformers are ready for your projects.” That the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) has given - I think, they need money for transport. I followed up and raised this with MTN to block the number, but, today, I received another message: “Mr Speaker, this is Eng. Byaruhanga. The power line is ready for Mitooma. So, we need three nearby poles to your place. Thanks for the advice.” When you extend the conversation, he asks for money to buy these poles. The number is - oh, you also have the number, honourable member? He does not change the name. He only changes the number. It is 0766881917. Now, Minister of Information, Communications Technology (ICT) and National Guidance, you registered the numbers. We were told that all numbers, which were not registered, were removed from the network. In fact, what happened in Nigeria and other countries is that telecoms were fined heavily for numbers that were not registered. Numbers which are not registered are committing a lot of crimes; they are conning people every day. Who are these people and why don’t you punish the telecoms that are allowing fraudsters to keep using these numbers, honourable minister? This fraudster has only been changing the numbers, but he has reached out to many MPs. Honourable colleagues, how many have been – (Members rose_) Aah, just see. And, he is stealing in the name of the Banyankole - (Laughter) - that he is Mr Byaruhanga.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I rise on a matter of national importance with regard to the tea industry. Mr Speaker, since the year 2022 to date, the tea industry has been facing turbulence, ranging from hiked prices of inputs, falling prices, black tea prices, and lack of regulation in the sector. Mr Speaker, in some areas of Uganda, like Buhweju, Bushenyi, Kyenjojo, Kabarole, and Mitooma, farmers are currently uprooting their tea gardens in despair. The Government has, on several occasions, promised a tea policy and subsidy on farm inputs. My prayers are: i. Can the Government update the tea farmers about the progress of subsidy on inputs, especially fertilisers, which are required this season? ii. Can the Government inform this House about the progress on tea policy, which is lacking in our sector? Thank you, Mr Speaker. I present.

14299 Wednesday, 18 September 2024 We have known leaders in this country but you are one of such great leaders that Mitooma has blessed this country with. (Applause) And I say this from the bottom of my heart. Many people will deceive you and want to say good things when you are dead but I tell you the people of Pakwach never lie. Yesterday I was disturbed because the banks of River Nile burst - (Laughter) - and there are very many young pupils like these from Pakwach who are not able to access schools. There are teachers who have rebelled because they want motorised boats from the Office of the Prime Minister because they can no longer manage to cross on small canoes. Since we are blessed with such great leaders like you from Mitooma, I plead with you because young Ugandans from Mitooma like you and the ones who have come here today are not accessing education, moreover, at a time so critical because in just a few weeks, primary seven pupils are beginning examinations. I thought I should make this comment. Thank you. (Laughter)

Honourable Government Chief Whip, we have a memorandum of cooperation between Pakwach and Mitooma districts - (Laughter)- I really cannot fend for Mitooma alone yet we have a cooperation agreement. The people of Pakwach need help from the Office of the Prime Minister. They need boats for the children to cross the river - and also want to come to Parliament and see - IN THE PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA Official Report of the Proceedings of Parliament FOURTH SESSION - 17TH SITTING - 1ST MEETING Parliament met at 2.15 p.m. in Parliament House, Kampala. PRAYERS (The Deputy Speaker, Mr Thomas Tayebwa, in the Chair.) The House was called to order. COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHAIR

Thank you. Colleagues, I welcome you to today’s sitting. In the public gallery this afternoon, we have pupils and teachers of Holistic Junior School from Bitereko Subcounty, Mitooma District. (Applause) They are represented in Parliament by Hon. Thomas Tayebwa, Member for Ruhinda North County — (Laughter) — and Hon. Juliet Agasha Bashiisha. (Applause) When I am blessed with such an opportunity, that is sufficient communication for today. Matters of national importance - Hon. Flavia Kabahenda - [Hon. Pacuto rose_]- (Laughter)- Hon. Pacuto, are you reacting to the communication?

Mr Speaker, I am also happy to see the children from Mitooma and -

Yes, the area I visited and where I married from. The Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development promised to give us information yesterday, and fortunately the Minister of Education and Sports is also here. If kids from Mitooma are here without the capitation grant as of now –

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I welcome the children from Mitooma who are here. I rise on a matter of national importance that concerns the people of Kyegegwa in Kyaka South County. These people have been living on and around Kyaka I Refugee land for a long time because the Government transferred the refugees in 1994 from Kyaka I Land to Kyaka II, and so, the whole land has been occupied. However, the people have been receiving threats of irregular evictions since 2007, which have even caused some deaths. As we speak, it is not only the people coming from Kyegegwa that are occupying that land but also the 8,000 Ugandans who were brought by the Government in 2016 after they left Tanzania and camped at Sango Bay to Kyaka I Land. The same people have started receiving documents both from the honourable minister, Hon. Hillary Onek and some Government entities, threatening eviction. We have given them the Parish Development Model (PDM) money but they cannot invest it because they are living in anxiety. We, as Members of Parliament from Kyegegwa, have tried to reach out to Hon. Hillary Onek for a solution-based discussion to no avail. I request and implore you to cause a meeting between us, the members of Parliament from Kyegegwa and Hon. Hillary Onek, the line minister, to have a discussion that has solutions on what we should tell these people because some of them have even started selling their land at a very low price to go and just languish wherever they can because they think that they can be harshly evicted anytime. Mr Speaker, we are living in anxiety and we do not want that to cause insecurity at this time. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Agasha Juliet Bashiisha is my name. I represent the people of Mitooma District. I am glad to be here.

13921 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 14 AUGUST 2024 very important point of lack of expanded rural electrification in Mityana to raise this matter. He raised a matter of Kyetume Parish which is the leading producer of tomatoes in Mityana. The tomatoes go bad due to lack of a factory to add value addition. A Turkish investor was willing to set up a factory but due to lack of electricity infrastructures, it was not possible. Hon. Lumu raised the matter of Kasikombe which has a Health Centre III but without electricity infrastructure as well. Most of our constituencies, including yours, Mr Speaker, because I visited Mitooma North when we visited as a Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, and some of the areas in your constituencies are not connected to power. In most of our constituencies, we have examples like those of Mityana County South, unfortunately, we do not see any programme to cure the rural electrification problem. The much hyped Electricity Access Scale Up Project is not able to expand coverage beyond the existing lines. The project was designed to connect customers who require both a no-poll and a one-poll service. We now know that the project is being implemented in some areas, excluding others, as the minister mentioned it clearly here. In my constituency; Bukoto County East, Masaka District, we do not have any free connection. Honourable minister, in many other areas where implementation has commenced, only those who require no-poll service are benefitting contrary to the design approved by this House. Increasing –

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Honourable colleagues, you know I am not a person who normally rises up on point of order, but for the sake of putting the record right – Mr Speaker, I am aware which constituency you are from. I vividly heard the Honourable Colleague referring to the constituency, as Mitooma North and Ruhinda. Where exactly do you come from? (Laughter)

Thank you, Mr Speaker. For the record, it is Ruhinda North in Mitooma District. Increasing access to the existing network will require the Electricity Access Scale-up Project, which requires injecting thousands of new transformers in the network. The honourable minister is aware that some of the transformers in different areas in this country are dilapidated and there is need to replace them with a voltage that fits within those different jurisdictions. Effect of energy governance on rural electrification programme Uganda is currently undergoing significant uncertainty in energy governance leading to a lack of clarity on fundamental questions on the availability, reliability and affordability of power. At the heart of the uncertainty is the end of the Umeme Limited concession and the funding of the infrastructure deficit, including restoration, rehabilitation, and expansion of the electricity distribution grid. The honourable minister, when submitting to Parliament the Budget Framework Paper and the Ministerial Policy Statement for the Financial Year 2024/2025, highlighted the need

13692 MINISTERIAL STATEMENT I thank my colleague who has raised a very pertinent issue regarding connecting Ugandans to electricity. I would love to come and give comprehensive progress of the implementation of the Electricity Access Scale Up Project funded by the World Bank facility of $638 million. It is not meant to connect all the villages in Uganda because that money is not enough to connect all the villages that do not have power. However, I will give you a progress report since we commissioned this programme in Mitooma on the 2 nd of January this year.

Thank you, Clerk. Honourable colleagues, I welcome you to today’s sitting. I thank, wholeheartedly, those of you who managed to make it to Mitooma. (Applause) For those who did not manage to make it, most of you reached out to me. I understand the schedules of honourable colleagues. It was on short notice but the solidarity shown towards each other is highly appreciated. My family and I are highly indebted to you, honourable colleagues. (Applause) In a special way, I also thank His Excellency the President who managed to come and join us, visit our family and have time with my dad, who was turning 80 years. It is a blessing for an old man – (Applause) - to be visited by people like you and the President. The old men shared - both of them are still very energetic. They were talking about how they are energetic, giving us tips because some of us young people look more tired than them. PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA

Rt Hon. Prime Minister, this puzzles me. Most of the colleagues who visited my constituency have called me – there is one from Karamoja who told me and said, “I saw some of your parts are worse than mine.” If you visit an area like Buhweju - for us who are disadvantaged and are doing badly, and do not belong under any of those programmes, how shall we – are we under Luwero? No, just go to Kiyanga where some people go and ask – I heard some Members of Parliament who went there last time, like Hon. Reagan Okumu, and asked, “Is this part of Congo or an extension of Congo?” So, where do we fall? When you read about regions – Bukedi is out - parts of Buganda - I do not know how Mitooma will fall under Luwero. Guide us and then -

Mr Speaker, these affirmative action ministries were put in place to make sure that those hard-to-reach areas and those other areas that were believed to have been lagging behind were also equated to other places. So, Mitooma District, especially Kiyanga – we shall make sure that they – (Laughter) [Ms Nabbanja] PRIME MINISTER’S TIME

13515 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA TUESDAY, 2 JULY 2024 and these are funds required to commence establishment of mineral regulations, revenue collection infrastructure and implementation of the minerals law. These include weighbridges and Government regulated markets for precious stones et cetera. Under the same vote - Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, there was a reduction of Shs 15 billion from rural electrification and connectivity projects. These funds are required to kick-start works on the seven major construction roads, which include the following: 1. Under Batch 1; the Eastern Service Territory, including West Budama South, Tororo South and Tororo Municipality in Tororo District, Pallisa County, and Gogonyo in Pallisa District; 2. Under Batch 2; still in the Eastern Service Territory, it covers areas of Busiki in Namutumba, Bukooli South in Bugiri, Kamuli District, Kachumbala in Bukedea District, Mbale Northern Division, Bungokho in Mbale and Serere District; 3. Lot 3; Northwest Service Territory for Buyanja East in Kibaale District, Bugangaizi South in Kakumiro District, Buhaguzi in Hoima, Hoima City, Kikuube and Buyaga East in Kagadi District; 4. Under lot 4 of West Nile, Central North and North Service Territory for Ora area in Zombo, Gulu; Aringa South in Yumbe, Dokolo District and Lira East in Lira District. 5. West, South and South Western Service Territory for Sheema, Ruhinda in Mitooma, Isingiro, Rubanda, Ibanda, and Kisoro Districts; 6. Western, Central, and Rwenzori Service Territory for Busongora North in Kasese, Fort Portal Central in Kabarole, Kyankwanzi and Bunyangabo Districts; 7. Central Service Territory for Bbale in Kayunga, Mukono South in Mukono, Butambala, Bukoto East in Masaka and Kiboga Districts. Madam Chairperson, in addition, these funds are required to commence works of enhancing the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) framework priority interventions for small factories and cottage industries across the country. (Interjections ) The SMEs framework intervention is aimed at reducing the turnaround time for electricity connection to SMEs.

13526 RECONSIDERATION OF THE APPROPRIATION BILL, 2024 Then to improve, Buluganya Health Centre IV, Shs 1.5 billion; Bulago Senior Secondary, Shs 300 million; St Peter Claver Muyembe, Shs 700 million. Bushenyi District: for construction of a playground at Bumbaire subcounty to be utilised for various school activities, for talent identification and growth of child, Shs 450 million. Lwengo District: Shs 1.16 billion for health centre III maternity ward completion at Busibo and Kaboyo Primary School, Shs 200 million, Katuulo, Rwembogo Health Centre III, Kyazanga Town Council Market. Mitooma District: Mitooma District Shs 6.2 billion for the completion of an ongoing project by the UPDF at Rwoburunga Seed School Shs 600 million, Bitereko Skills Development Centre Shs 1.6 billion, Kigyende Health Centre III Shs 1.5 billion, Bitereko Health Centre IV Shs 600 million, Kigyende Seed School Shs 600 million and Rutookye Health Centre IV Shs 1.6 billion. Mubende District: Rehabilitation of a school, Kasambya DAS Primary School, Shs 500 million. Nabilatuk District: St Kizito Secondary School roofing and fencing Shs 480 million, construction of a classroom block at Lokapel Junction Primary School Shs 400 million, maternity ward at Sakale Health Centre II Shs 300 million. Colleagues, that is where we allocated those funds, which were picked from there. I beg to move.

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--T1tr- l+- ;,? "t ''i.. ?Y\,L \i. t -fi' --t*;=*" M I t({,,- I i: ij lL I v t1 f t l"=' ti.j Y Amount (OOO'| Vote Descriptlon 7,328,OO8 Manafwa District 886 3,44t,331 Maracha District 887 3,471,050 888 Masaka District 4,882,502 Masindi District 889 6,068,543 890 Mayuge District 6,429,337 Mbale District 891 3,641,820 492 Mbarara District 9,052,297 Mitooma District 893 6,6a2,495 894 Mityana District 1,658,849 895 Moroto District 1,922,2O4 896 Moyo District 3,477,355 897 Mpigi District 6,69L,743 898 Mubende District 3,766,672 899 Mukono District 4,343,422 Nabilatuk District 900 3,OL6,472 901 Nakapiripirit District 5,835,018 902 Nakaseke District 2,548,6t5 903 Nakasongola District 4,536,596 904 Namayingo District 4,9t8,709 Namisindwa District 905 3,981, 161 906 Namutumba District 3,807,O77 907 Napak District 4,970,272 Nebbi District 908 2,906,306 909 Ngora District t,75A,026 Ntoroko District 910 7,940,925 911 Ntungamo District 5,490,899 Nwoya District 9t2 L,649,499 913 Obongi District 2,603,313 9t4 Omoro District 2,577,067 915 Otuke District 6,868,886 9t6 Oyam District 3,127,34r 917 Pader District 2,692,356 918 Pakwach District 4,682,708 9t9 Pallisa District 3,493,436 920 Rakai District 5,950,433 92t Rubanda District 3,4tt,704 922 Rubirizi District ,-i I ,r 4 27 F$*\

Is it seconded? (Members rose_) It is seconded by Hon. Amero, Hon. Connie, Hon. Ocan, Hon. Emmanuel, Hon. Acuti, Hon. Nancy, Hon. Sauda, the whole of the right-hand side, including the Government Chief Whip. There is Hon. Ojara, Hon. Muwuma, Hon. Rose, Hon. Patience, Hon. Ababiku, Member of Parliament for Busia, Member of Parliament from Mitooma, the Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries and the Elders’ representative. Now you know I can mention all your names. No, the Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries is - you know, I cannot mention her name because she is my aunt, Hon. Okori- Moe. Can you speak to your motion?

Honourable mem - bers, can I read the districts, which are includ - ed? Hon. Ssekikubo is that okay? With the amounts. Honourable members, listen. Read: Vote 804 – Alebtong District – Shs 848,733,704; Vote 805 – Amolatar District – Shs 220,815,010; Vote 807 – Amuria District – Shs 76,091,072; Vote 811 – Budaka District – Shs 569,774,320; Vote 812 – Bududa District – Shs 871,310,151; Vote 813 – Bugiri District – Shs 80,000,000; Vote 816 –Buikwe District – Shs 634,351,309; Vote 817: Bukedea District - Shs 557,998,824; Vote 818: Bukomansimbi District - Shs 138,976,150; Vote 819: Bukwo District - Shs 3,457,961,447; Vote 820: Bulambuli District – Shs 237,021,273; Vote 823: Bunyangabu District – Shs 371,453,937; Vote 825: Busia District - Shs 2,493,045,786; Vote 830: Buyende District - Shs 325,110,681; Vote 831: Dokolo District – Shs 1,200,052,179; Vote 832: Gomba District – Shs 132,794,807; Vote 834: Hoima District – Shs 663,105,613; Vote 835: Ibanda District - Shs 2,181,084,002; Vote 837: Isingiro District – Shs 3,142,687,738; Vote 838: Jinja District - Shs 2,158,144,238; Vote 840: Kabale District - Shs 122,770,149; Vote 841: Kabarole District – Shs 413,457,210; Vote 842: Kaberamaido District - Shs 1,189,601,445; Vote 846: Kalangala District – Shs 499,303,936; Vote 848: Kalungu District – Shs 1,919,206,727; Vote 851: Kanungu District - Shs 2,355,337,661; Vote 855, Kassanda District – Shs 1,076,055,328; Vote 856: Kasese District - Shs 1,428,572,362; Vote 858: Kayunga District - Shs 886,274,114; Vote 861: Kiboga District – Shs 877,544,449; Vote 862: Kibuku District – Shs 55,309,755; Vote 864: Kiruhura District - Shs 1,272,038,110; Vote 866: Kisoro District – Shs 1,147,709,409; Vote 867: Kitagwenda District – Shs 292,329,260; Vote 868: Kitgum District - Shs 260,346,061; Vote 869: Koboko District – Shs 1,346,133,500; Vote 870: Kole District - Shs 508,409,292; Vote 872: Kumi District - Shs 2,856,532,203; Vote 875: Kyankwanzi District - Shs 280,000,000; Vote 876: Kyegegwa District - Shs 2,218,090,875; Vote 877: Kyenjojo District - Shs 1,050,288,984; Vote 878: Kyotera District - Shs 1,273,322,749; Vote 879: Lamwo District - Shs 403,256,222; Vote 881: Luuka District - Shs 931,990,097; Vote 882: Luwero District - Shs 5,365,516,069; Vote 883: Lwengo District – Shs 1,967,438,860; Vote 884: Lyantonde District - Shs 253,488,082; Vote 885: Madi-Okollo District - Shs 676,404,553; Vote 887: Maracha District – Shs 416,761,385; Vote 889: Masindi District – Shs 84,336,637; Vote 890: Mayuge District – Shs 930,316,165; Vote 891: Mbale District – Shs 1,720,742,693; Vote 892: Mbarara District - Shs 455,148,176; Vote 893: Mitooma District - Shs 505,896,701; Vote 894: Mityana District - Shs 471,519,063; Vote 895: Moroto District – Shs 165,753,246; Vote 896: Moyo District - Shs 1,293,741,625; Vote 899: Mukono District – Shs 2,529,351,767; Vote 900: Nabilatuk District – Shs 1,252,915,918; Vote 901: Nakapiripirit District – Shs 30,000,000; Vote 902: Nakaseke District – Shs 933,060,184; [Mr Ekanya] THE SUPPLEMENTARY EXPENDITURE SCHEDULE NO.2

Honourable members, I have seen Hon. Kavuma here. Why I am saying I have seen him is because he has just given out his daughter. Honourable members, the report is informative and what matters is us going clause by clause. There is a motion here on whether we should go to the second reading, and it is seconded by Hon. Isaac, Hon. Peter, Hon. Harriet, the honourable Member of Parliament for Mitooma, Hon. Afoyochan, Hon. Milton Muwuma, Hon. Alobo, Hon. Katabaazi - you are still a “ Ssabakurisito.” Hon. Felix, Hon. Alanyo, Hon. Kavuma, Hon. Mbayo, Hon. Okwir, Hon. Fred, Hon. Luttamaguzi, Hon. Aguti, Hon. Aol, Hon. Kenny, Hon. Yona, Hon. Zijjan and the whole House, including Hon. Bahati. Thank you so much. I now put the question that the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (Amendment) Bill, 2024 be read for the second time. (Question put and agreed to.) BILLS COMMITTEE STAGE THE UGANDA REGISTRATION SERVICES BUREAU (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2024 New clause

12543 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 11 APRIL 2024 Where there are internal capacity challenges, the National Planning Authority should undertake the studies. On budgeting for Anti-Money Laundering, and Combating Financing of Terrorism (AML/ CFT) We recommend that the Uganda Police Force implement the strategic deficiencies under its jurisdiction on pending action items from the National Risk Assessment of 2023. Traffic and Road Safety We note that this department implements an express penalty scheme, which forms the bulk of NTR. We, therefore, recommend an additional Shs 8.6 billion for the procurement of transport equipment and installation of an IOV inspection lane and certification centre and Shs 18 billion for the procurement of 10 mobile inspection stations for IOV. Police Accommodation and Ongoing Con - struction Projects There is continued construction of 240 staff houses in Jinja and Entebbe, which requires an additional Shs 69.986 billion. Construction of eight accommodation blocks at the headquarters in Nakasongola, Sheema, Busolwe, Mitooma, Kanungu, and Kakumiro has a funding gap of Uganda’s Shs 2.24 billion, among others. These projects need independent project designs with national coverage, standardisation and ease of project monitoring? Therefore, we recommend developing a comprehensive project to undertake countrywide interventions with the same standards to ease the monitoring of such infrastructure. Subcounty Policing Model This model is premised on concentrating limited resources at a subcounty for efficiency and effectiveness in providing policing services to the communities. This requires the following: (i) Deploying a minimum of 18 personnel; (ii) 2 motorcycles per police station; (iii) 1 motor vehicle; (iv) A counter phone and radio communication; (v) An office. If this model is to be phased, starting with high-risk crime levels, taking 30 subcounties that have been planned requires Shs 36.946 billion. However, only Shs 5.6 billion has been provided in the Financial Year 2024/2025 budget for only 9 subcounties. We, therefore, recommend that Uganda Police Force first pilot this model with the existing funds provided in the budget and expand it given the lessons learned in the piloted subcounties. On crime management We note that Uganda Police Force intends to expand the Canine units to 10 districts of Nebbi, Koboko, Budaka, Bukomansimbi, Butambala, Zombo, Adjumani, Madi-Okollo, Packwach and Kaberamaido during FY 2024/2025 with a provision of Shs 0.709 billion out of the required Shs 2.968 billion, leaving a gap of Shs 2.259 billion. We, therefore, recommend providing Shs 2.259 billion for the canine unit to take its services to the above districts and closer to communities in the Finacial Year 2024/2025 budget. In addition, the Uganda Police Force should sensitize the masses on the importance of not interfering with scenes of crime to deploy canine dogs effectively in the investigative mechanism. On stationery, Mr Speaker, we note that the shortage of stationery at police units is a source of perceived corruption, dissatisfaction, loss of confidence and ultimately poor police image. A provision of Shs 2.172 billion has been made for the Financial Year 2024/2025, yet the

Bzsiness Deuelopment and. Qualitg Assurance (1) National business development services guideline developed for 200 men, women, and youth & mainstreamed in the BFP in Central, Northern, West Nile & Eastern Regions. (2) 220 MSMEs of men, youth and women entrepreneurs trained on making Business Plans, Financial Literacy, Resource Mobilization, and Record Keeping. Kiruhura, Rwampara, Kabale,Rubanda, Mitooma, pallisa, Serere, Oyam, Kalaki and Otuke. (3) 60 youths, women, and entrepreneurs prepared to attend trade exhibition in South Sudan Capital, Juba. (41 160 MSMEs of men, women, youths PWDs mobitized and sensitized on the importance of product certification, aud.its, food fortification, and GHp for enterprises in Kotido, Napak DLG, Abim, Amudat, Zombo, Arua, Madi-Oko1o Serere & Kole. (5) T\ryo (21 Business tinkages established between MSMEs and large-scale enterprises for men, women and PWDs. in Soroti City, Amuria, Katakwi, Kumi, Busia, Tororo and Butaleja for men, women and pwDs. (6) 850 MSMEs profiled per region of the country and MSMEs database populated for 212 youths 212 women, 25Omen and 176 pWDs. in Central, Northern and Western Regions. Process ing and. Marketing (1) A detailed study and assessment on various stages of the textile value chain in Uganda from yarn production to manufacturing conducted. ( t u , T +n {> ,.:'._J!!}.$F (\-.

Thank you, Attorney-General. Honourable colleagues, those who were not here yesterday, we agreed with the Prime Minister that for the other regions, which were not considered, she will submit to the Cabinet so that the Attorney- General can be given guidance by Cabinet on how these can be paid – from Busoga, Bukedi, West Nile, Buganda, Sebei, Ankole – yes, the Amin war started from Tanzania via Isingiro, Rakai and that is the one which liberated this country; first phase of liberation. I think Mitooma potentially –(Laughter)- I have said “potentially”. Honourable colleagues, do we need to open this up? Yesterday, I remember, I told Hon. Ebwalu that he cannot report on behalf of the Attorney-General, but I would like to ask: is this accurate information? Yes, Hon. Ebwalu.

Honourable colleagues, I am seeing that nearly every region – I am even going to crosscheck: you might find that Mitooma is a potential claimant. (Laughter) You might find that I am seated on an opportunity. Hon. Bwanika here is about to submit it. However, if you followed, all the time we have been having the Attorney-General on this matter here, it was on matters of Lango, Acholi and Teso. The money we appropriated was for those areas. Rt Hon. Prime Minister, when are you looking at other areas? Maybe let Hon. Muzaale, first conclude on this and then the Prime Minister will come. (Mr Silwany rose_) Hon. Silwany, when I pick you – and you have already spoken – I look for others who have not. I know you are looking for issues of Busoga. (Laughter) Honourable colleagues, when you see me ignoring you a little bit, sometimes it is because I am trying to see if there is someone from your region who - Hon. Muzaale?

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I also thank the committee for the very pertinent and touching report presented about Zombo. Leave alone the losses made by the people from tea. Any overgrown tea garden is a danger to society. It is a very good haven for wild animals and thieves. It is a good forest for hiding. When we have tea gardens like those in Zombo and the ones growing wild in Mitooma, Bushenyi and Buhweju, we are also growing another danger of vermin within the societies. I am appealing to the Government - when we talk about Shs 19 billion for investing in a tea factory in Zombo, and then about Shs 180 billion in terms of returns, the Government should be very calculative and do that business. Thank you very much, Mr Speaker.

?.2 TEA GROIIIING IN UGANDA Tea was first cultivated in Uganda in the early years of the 2oft century at the botanical gardens in Entebbe. The crop was a success and commercial cultivation started in the 1920s. Unfortunately, Uganda's tea industry was decimated by political upheaval in the 197Os. It was revived in the early 1990s due to availability of Commonwealth development funds, foreign expertise, and investment by Indian owned companies (Ahmed Tea London, 2or9l. In the FY 2022123, tea was Uganda's fourth largest agricultural export after coffee, fish and maize, earning the country over USD 90 million. This represented a 5.3% increase compared to FY 2O2l122. Tea has generated an average of 3.60/o of Uganda's export earnings over the last five years and is recognizsed to have a higher potential to contribute more to national revenue, employment and environmental conservation (NAADS, 2021). Over the past eight (8) years, tea has been fetching average earnings of USD 76 million for the country, having apexes at USD 94 million 2018. Tea estates produce about 54o/o of the tea in the country while the small holder tea growers contribute about 460/o of the total average. The industry employs close to 8O,OOO farmer households and supports 150,000 skilled and unskilled workers with about one million people directly deriving their velihoods from tea growing (NAADS, 2021). The traditional tea-growing districts in Uganda are: Mukono, Buikwe, Mubende, Mityana, Masaka in the central region; Kyenjojo, Kibale, Hoima and Kabarole in the western region; Bushenyi, Buhweju, Kanungu and Kabale in south-western Uganda. Recently, tea growing has expanded to new districts like Kisoro, Rubanda, Rukungiri, Sheema, Nebbi, Zombo, Isingiro, Ntungamo, Mitooma, Ru 2O2Ol. Kamwenge and Mbarara (NAADS, .l ffit^-- t "# ffili, -\ l. 2 --- j=.r t\S'rr '.i'-5r a 1 hk h

2.9 HrsToRY OF TEA GROWING rN ZOI0IBO Tea growing in Zombo was initially introduced in the 1960s. However, the economic activity collapsed due to the political turmoil of the 1970s. Following a request by the Alur King (Wimu ker Alur) to His Excellency the President to support tea growing in Abanga and other parts of the Alur Kingdom in order to improve the livelihoods of the people; Government re- introduced tea growing in the district during the FY 2OI3l2014 through the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF) II Programme. This happened at an opportune time when Government had started the expansion of tea production in the western and south-western regions of Uganda. In 2014, tea nursery beds were set up by Giant Seeds Company in Zombo and Nebbi districts. The National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) procured and distributed tea seedlings to the farmers for planting. ln 2016, nursery beds were established again in Zombo district by the sa.rne company and more tea planting was done in 20 17 and 20 18 in block farms. ln 2018, more nursery operators were invited to set up nursery beds across the district to increase the quantity of tea seedlings available to farmers. It was at that time that tea farmers' groups/cooperatives and nursery operators' organizations emerged, prompting the formation of the 300- member Zombo Tea Growers Cooperative Society Limited. However, procurement of tea seedlings by NAADS remained low, causing loses to nursery operators and this, coupled with the impact of COVID-19, negatively affected tea growing. In 2022, Government through NAADS, embarked on the process of distributing tea seedlings to farmers in 16 tea growing districts namely: Buhweju, Bushenyi, Mitooma, Rukungiri, Kisoro, Kyenjojo, Zornbo, Rubanda, Rukiga, Kabale, Kanungu, Sheema, Kikuube, Rwampara, and Kabarole. The main suppliers of these tea seedlings were Tea Development Agency Limited (UTDAL) and Zombo Nursery a Operators and Farmers' Associa POK& Vl- \ 3 :E# ffi** tS' d#*il/,' #

K 2.4 BACKGROUND TO THE PETITION Zombo Tea Nursery Operators and Farmers' Association was founded in 2OI9. It brings together over 200 local tea farmers, nursery operators and other value chain actors operating within the district. It is registered at the district as a community-based organisation. Since 2O2O, the association has supplied farmers with tea seedlings with support from Government through NAADS. On 21st September, 2022, Cabinet under Minute No. 340 (CT 2022) directed for a one-off procurement of tea and coffee seedlings for distribution to farmers during tlrre 2022 Season (September to December 20221. Under this arrangement, Government committed to procure and pay over two financial years (FYs) starting with FY 202312024, tea seedlings from verified nursery operators in the 16 tea growing districts mentioned above. On 28tt' September 2022, MAAIF wrote to the 16 district local governments (Annex 2) seeking details of verified tea seedling suppliers with tea seedlings in nurseries ready for planting, to be submitted not later than 5ft October, 2022. According to MAAIF, only six out of the sixteen districts namely Sheema, Rukungiri, Bushenyi, Kanungu, Mitooma and Buhweju were able to submit the required information within the designated timeframe of Sept 29th - lTtr:. Oct. 2022 under the initiation of NAADS (Annex 3). The Committee was informed that Zombo DLG provided information to MAAIF on the available and verified tea seedlings in the nurseries on 5ft October, 2023 but sought to defer procurement and distribution to March 2023 on account of the anticipated dry spell. However, this procurement was never effected despite various efforts to follow up. It is against this background that a armers Association petitioned the pply tea seedlings "ft.sctrc Zombo Tea Nursery Operators and Rt. Hon. Speaker concerning the to farmers in Zombo district. ) -- rr-- delayed/ to su '{rV::" 4 W ry <

ct- J.^ -, ^ ^^.^ r^r4r rmrltlslr J auu .r lsnerles iiiL{r,gl tdarti,oinati Agrue uul Plot S Kgado{ito Road., }' r 1i ) rl Lr (ii['i:i iiS C ri",, Towers, Btock H, Legacg P.O. Box 2 5235, Ka i*,il;i'l,iiiC.."-'S Nakasero J {( mpala - Uganda asury ltrc tc?urucof NAADS/Nr/oo8 31s August,2023 I.he Perrnanent S l4inistry of Finance KAMPALA ., ) i.lr UPDATE ON THE PROGR ESS OF IMPLEMENTATI ON OF THE CABINET DECISION ON PROCURE 2022 B (SEPTEMBER-D MENT AND DISTRIB ECEMB UTIO N OF TEA SEEDLINGS ER 2022) DURING RAIN SEASON Reference is made to letter ISS 461256/01 dated 21sr Fe bruary 2023 from the Mi nister of Finance plann ing and Economic Developrnent to the Minister of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries copied to the Executive Di rector NAADS, copied to yoU, requesting for in formation on progress of imple menting the Cabi net Directive on procurement of tea and co ffee seedlings d unng season September to December 2022. lt is notable tha t, in this letter, the Mini ster makes reference to the Cabinet Minute No.340 (CT 202 2) dated 26h September 2022 which approved a one-off payment arrangement to verified coffee and tea nursery operators ased over a period of twc ph ye3is starting FY 202.3-24. Arlditionalt y, the Minister,s letter enumerated actions to be perfcrrrred by different offices of Government, includi ng expected timelines for the actions with Ute final step being validation by the I nternal Auditor General of the relurns for seedlings dis tributed as submitted by the p rocuring Entity. ,Accord ingly, the NAADS Secretariat initiated and exec uted the procurement for the verifi ed tea seedlings under a de legated procurement arrangement to six (6) Districr Local Governments(Dl_Gs ) that submitted the requ ired information [o the Ministry of Agricultur-e Animai Industry and Fisheries ( MAAIF) within the prescribed timeframer iAnnexes 1 and 2 ). These included S heema, Ru kung iri, Bushenyi, Kan ungu, Mitooma and Euhweju DLGs. .Subseq uently, the NAADS riat provided the required update Secreta on the progress of irnplementing the Cabinet Directive on procurement of tea seedlings to your office in a letter dated 20th April 2023 and further update to you rna letter dated .3 ist May 2023 (copied the M inister, MOFPED ) both attached for your further referen ce. To date orrly five of the six D Mitooma were able to execute the LGs, namely Sheema, Rukungiri, procurement for the tea Bushenyi Kan and submit the ungu and relevant documents, with returns seedlings totaling to 4t, g74 , 638 procu red tea seedlings worth UGX 16, 749, 855,200 (Sixteen billion, seven h undred forty-ni ne million, eight hundred fifty-five thousand two hundred shillings only) For the case of Buhweju DLG , whereas the NAADS Secretariat received a co mmunication from the Chief Admin Officer lOu( of rhe rarget sixreen ( l6) DLGs. : 2564t4/312/34s440, 34s06s, 34s066, 34s060, Fax 256 4r4 347843, Email: ETVED * 0lSEpZ02J * TTEC S EC U R TY R E G S T R Y OFFI c E OF I HE PRIME MIN ts TER sEP ?023 0t EIVED R EC it : rlii tt: b i.t t: :; :..: c i t i ! i : t. t:.i -...:;.1,,3.i111..,.2..,r,, or.u8 a'l r, '1 r'ii the T 'i : .., ..':,:

sNo Oistrict No. of Nursery operator s No. of Seedlings verified in nurseries No. of seedlings demanded Submis sion Date Remarks I Bushenyi 92 23,240,300 23,240,300 r.o7.22 Submitted time, Procurement initiated. tn 2 Buhweju 304 103,246,999 101,210,669 r.07.22 Submitted time, Procurement initiated ln 3 Mitooma 38 9,411,429 9,41L,429 r.07.22 Submitted time, Procurement initiated tn 4 Sheema 2 6 L,007,902 1,200,000 7.10.22 Submitted time, Procurement initiated tn 5 Rukungiri 1,894,579 2,000,000 5.10.22 Submitted time, Procurement initiated in 27s 16,991,296 27,921,979 7.t0.22 Submitted time, Procurement initiated in 7 Rukiga 5 3,110,000 2,973,000 26.r0.22 Did not submit in time. Procurement not initiated 8 Kabale 4 2,809,900 4,935,650 3.tt.22 Did not submit in time. Procurement not initiated 9 Rwampar a 2 17 1,3 1g 108,000 26.10.22 Did not submit in time. Procurement not initiated 10 Rubanda 12 3,553,916 4,651,000 26.r0.22 Did not submit in time. Annex 1: sumrnary of verified tea seedlings and farmer demands submitted by oistrict Local Governments under the cabine[ decision as at 31.og.23 6 Kanungu

Annex 2: Progress on execution of Delegated procurements for tea seedlings as at 31.08.2023 Bushenyi Sheema Rukungiri Name of DLG No. of seedlings delegated Value (UGX) No. of seedlings procured as per submitted documents Value seedlings procured (uGx) of Remarks 23,240,300 9,296,120,000 14,087,976 957,4t2 382,964,800 957,412 1,790,349 716. t 39,600 1,790,349 5,635,150,400 Procurement executed. Documents submitted to NAADS and communication to made to MOFPED 382,964,900 Procurement executed. Documents submitted to NAADS and communication to made to MOFPED 716,139,600 Procurement executed. Documents submitted to NAADS and communication to made to MOFPED Mitooma 94rr429 3,764,571,200 9,104,995 3,64L,994,000 Procurement executed. Documents submitted to NAADS and communication to made to MOFPED Kanungu 16,132,225 6,452,890,000 15,934,016 6,373,606,400 Procurement executed. Documents submitted to NAADS and communication

ANNEX 6: suMMARy oF ADDTTT.NAL cLArMs FoR ExEcurtoN oF THE DELEGATED PRocuRrMrNi oF TEA srro.rNGs ,NDER THE cABTNET DECISION (OCTOBEA ZOZiI FOR BUSHENYI, MITOOMN-ANrO KANUNGU DLGS Value Seedlings UGX ol ANNE, 7: DETATLED ADDTTT.NAL suBMr,TED cLArM EXECUTION OF THE OE.CCATEO PNOCUNEMENT OF SEEDLTNGS UNDER THE ca-erNET DEcrsrbrv (ocroBER 2 FOR BUSHENYI DLG FOR TEA o22) sNO District o tors No.of Nursery No. of seedlings claimed 1 Bus I 100.000 000 40 000 2 Mitooma 35 9.104,985 000 3 641 994 3 Kanun 235 15 934 016 3 6 7 3 4 606 00 Total 27L oor 25 139 o 1 o5 5 600 4 , oo a SN Name of Nursery o erator No. ol Seedlings claimed Amount UGX) 1 Nuwe Sula r00 000 000 40 000 TOTAL

Mitooma 941 r42B 3.764,57 1,200 According to information from the District, the Delegated Procurement was executed. DLG in process of submitting documents to NAADS 16,735.637 6,694,254 ,800 Kanungu 16.132,225 6,452.890,000 Totals 152 742 382 61 096 952 800 to NAADS . According to information from the District. the Delegated Procurement was executed. DLG in process of submitting docunrents to NAADS ,i ril . it r i: A .l .! I

Anncx 1: SUMMARY OF VERIFIED TEA SEEDLINGS AND FARMER DEMANDS SUBMTTTED BY DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS UNDER THE CABINET DEC r S r ON (OCTOBER 20221 q I 2 3 4 6 1 o I 10 1, t2 13 SNO District No. of Nur';ery operators No. Seedlings verified nurseries of tn No. of seedlings demanded Submission Date Remarks Bushenyi 92 23,240.300 23.240.300 t.07.22 Submitted in time. Procurement initiated. Buhweju 304 r03,246,988 101,210,668 t.07.22 Submitted in time. Procurement initiated Mitooma 3B 9.4 I r.428 9.4I1.428 t.07.22 Submitted in time. Procurement initiated Sheema i.007,802 i 200 000 Submitteci in time. Procurement initiated f .i0.27 Rukungiri 2 6 1.884,5 78 2,000.000 5.10.22 Submitted in time, Procurement initiated Kanungu 275 t 6.981.286 21,8)r,819 1.t0.22 Submitted in time, Procurement initiated Rukiga 5 3,1I0,000 2.873,000 26.r0.22 Kahale 4 2,808,800 4,83 5,650 3.11.22 Rwampara 2 171.318 r08,000 26.r0.22 Rubanda ).2 3.553,916 4.651,000 26.r0.22 Kagadi 1 500.000 731,000 31.10.22 Kyenjojo 6 955.000 95s,000 26.r0.22 Zombo 45 r 6,765,000 7.10.22 Kisoro 37 3.500,923 3,551,054 1.r0.22 Did not submit in time. Procurement not initiated Did not submit in time. Procurement not initiated Did not submit in tirne. Procurement not initiated Did not submit in time. Procurement not initiated Did not submit in time. Procurement not initiated Did not submit in time. Procurement not initiated Differed procurement to March 2023. Did not submit demand. Procurement not initiated. Did not submit demand. Pro ement t ,t I ,t. 14 init noI .t

To inform you that three (3) DLGs (Buhweju, Mitooma. &.Kanungu) reportedly ffii"3.1[,ff:::rted procuremenrs but aie v.i-to submir tn. ,.-uirrns ro rhe l,l L., \_---- ,,& 13 Dr. Chr For: E ristophel Bukenya XECUTIVE DIRECTOR cc: The Rt. Hon. prime Minister cc: The Hon. Minister of Finance. pranning and Economic Deveropment cc: The Hon. Minister of Agricurture, Aniniar rnorrtrv and Fisheries cc: The Hon. Minister oi SLte for ngricuiture. niaaii cc: The permanent Secretary. MAAIF cc: The permanent Secretary. MOLG

rr^rrrrdLt J ,r ra'Err rLulLul tr, lallllllal llluustry illlu tt lsnerlgs -... l' - . a 1 i e il r;iiii i.\gi i ti"ii i,iij'iti rirl iisSi, i' _l +;. t ie,.):i Plot 5 Kyadoido Road., Legacg Touters, Brock b, Nakasero a il !' Uganda SECURI OFFICE OF I nrf MrutLtc or Lc{ 'I :r: . NAADS,/Nl/oo8 20th Rpril. 2023 The Permanent Ministry of Fina KAMPALA. 2 ( AFR ?023 RECET vE^ * 2 \ AP'R 2023 ) iii'i i -j\ .!;!r: .l -1.1- :1 Secrei4gy/SecrE nce, Pianhinqr-an taiyto tnC {.reaSury you on the progress of implemen idance on procurement and distributi TY REGISTRY HE PRIME MINIS-' UPDATE ON PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTTNG THE CABINET DECISION ON PROCUREMENT OF TEA SEEDLINGS FOR DTSTRIBUTION AND PLANTING BY FARMERS DUR!NG SEASON 20228 (SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2C,221 Refei-ence is rnacje io the ietter isS 4bl256/0i ciateo'21': February 2023 from the Hon. Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to the Hon. Minister of Agriculture, Animal tndustry and Fisheries copied to the Executive Director NAADS. requesting for information on progress of implementing the Cabinet decision (and related guidance) on procuring tea and coffee seedlings from verified nursery operators during season 20228 (September-Decemb er 2022\. As guided by Cabinet, the NAADS Secretariat initiated procurement of verified tea seedlings under - a .delegated procurement arrangement to six (6) District Local Governments (DLGs) that submitted !h. required information to the Ministry of Agricrrlture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) uuithin the prescribed timeframer (Annex 1). Th.e detegated procurement for the six DLGs was initiated between 29th September and 17'h october 20D^91d involved procurement of 1s2,142,382 verified tea seedlings worth ucx 6r.096,952.800 for distribution to farmers in Buhweju, Bushenyi. Mitooma, Sheema. Rukungiri and Kanungu DLGs (Annex 2). To date, three (3) DLGs namely Sheema. Ruku ngiri and Bushenyi have submitted procurement returns to NAADS Secretariat for 16 ,735.637 tea seedlings worth UGX 6,694,254,80O (Annexes 3, 4, and 5 ). All doc uments pertain t the procuremenI and distribution of the tea seedli ngs to farmers for the ble at the NAADS Secretariat for review. tr€ 65rv€ C The purpose of this letter therefore is three-fold: .a '' 'l ? \ Al '''' /\rI ' atGtS rtrY + )( To update related gu districts. To presen seedlings on ecision and ings in the target t to you to the returns indicating the quantit y and value of the of t procureci anci distributed in the three District Local Go namely Sheema, Rukungiri and B ushenyi worth UGX 6,694,254 ,BOO ion for.fu nding under Fy 2023-24 (Annexes 3 4 a n 0312 178 300 ilioi 305i303-Tollft'ee.0800 230 100, Entait info@naacis.or.Ltg, l4/ebsite.-rt,,,nnt.paads.or.Ltg " P ;' +. 11 1 6 i I ;, f p i r; ii i u l: i c ir gri c it ! t i t rr, ! u ro r! ; t c t i o tr,' Tel l.j.',.'r: i,.i I

12076 PRIME MINISTER’S T IME from Kampala International University from Makindye East Division, Kampala, led by their Guild President. They are represented in Parliament by Hon. Derrick Nyeko and Hon. Shamim Malende. They have come to observe the proceedings of this House. Please, join me in welcoming them. Thank you. I also have good daughters of mine and some of my people from Ruhinda North in Mitooma District. Thank you. Honourable colleagues, matters of national importance will be handled as we do during the Prime Minister’s Time so that we can handle some issues. About my communication, I will start with Hon. Ssewungu, Hon. Kyooma, and the Woman Member of Parliament for Mitooma District should speak for me; sometimes, you know – Hon. Dr Member from Koboko and the victim here, Hon. Macho. Colleagues, I will give you a chance. Let us use a few minutes.

Mr Speaker, that project is up and running. It was actually launched at the national level last Tuesday, in Mitooma District, and all MPs were invited to attend. Equally, the ministers were all informed about it, and the Rt Hon. Speaker participated in the launch. Since there were no MPs, he represented the MPs. You were ably represented during the launch.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Buhweju was a big contributor towards the liberation of Uganda because it was a training camp for the Tarehe Sita liberationists. I thank my honourable colleague for raising this matter. We have what we call the bona fide farmers and bona fide shareholders and in the greater Bushenyi, they are shared between the current districts of Mitooma, Bushenyi, Sheema, Buhweju, and River Rubirizi. It so happens, Mr Speaker, that the factory that was commissioned in 1969 was based in Igara area. Buhweju remained pending with the registered company, which was registered in 1974. However, later on, there was a lack of funds and in 2008 -2010, I was a member of the board in Igara, and we asked the Government to finance Buhweju. In 2004, His Excellency the President visited the site, which was just a playground, and he offered to help Buhweju to put up a factory and the Government financed all the civil works. The total funding from the Government was about Shs 14 billion and Igara, together with Buhweju, Mitooma and Sheema, contributed machinery. Currently, Mr Speaker, to be very quick, the farmers in Buhweju have been molested by being denied payments on a monthly basis. Currently, we are demanding payments for four months. COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHAIR

11652 THE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2023 We must see ourselves because I was in the West Nile, there is a road that goes to Goli Diocesan Headquarters, I think to the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo, it is terrible. I was in some part of Mitooma, the road that comes from Buhweju, I think – the owner is - it is terrible. If you go to – countrywide, people are demanding for roads. All we would like to see, as a Parliament, is ourselves- so that we can go back and tell your people it is next year or the other year you will be fitted in. Mr Speaker, I persuade you that this minister be sent back and bring this statement. When the statement comes, we can then debate it as a House and make recommendations so that they are all dealt with at once. I thank you.

Honourable member, wait a bit. Please, honourable colleagues, the Rules of Procedure are very clear. Here, we work through the Rules of Procedure. When a debate is on a certain matter, we debate that matter. We do not have cows in Mitooma; I do not own cows. Instead, I grow coffee, but the debate we have now is on FMD. Yes, Member for Terego.

Thank you. Honourable colleagues, when you occupy our offices, you must have a thick skin. All these things come and you laugh them off and go on. That is how we survive. Otherwise, you will start swallowing Panadol over comments for nothing. These are things we are used to; they come and go. On a very serious issue which Hon. Ssemujju, my brother, has raised: number one, I never attended any event where my brother, Muhoozi Kainerugaba attended and addressed a gathering. Number two, the youth from my district, who are my voters, had what they call a baraza and part of that baraza was to also appreciate their friend. There was no declaration of anyone stating that the youth of Mitooma have resolved he is going into politics. There was no declaration on anything. It was a baraza . People had football, bicycle competitions; people were happy and excited over one of their fellow young people and they see a bright future in him. Now, who am I, to start judging them? These are my voters. (Applause) This is very honest. I believe that in case I am accused, Hon. Ssemujju will be the first person to defend me for attending because I never committed any crime. Colleagues, if you could allow - today, we have a substantial debate on the Budget Framework Paper. If you could really allow, we will just pick - let me first pick Hon. Okupa, then I will pick a lady - Do not mind. Let us do it quickly.

11350 DESIGNATION OF MEMBERS TO COMMITTEES OF PARLIAMENT [Mr Obua] 3. Hon. Rosemary Nyakikongoro – Woman, Sheema; 4. Hon. Arinaitwe Rwakajara - Workers; 5. Hon. Moses Magogo – Budiope East; 6. Hon. David Kabanda - Kasambya; 7. Hon. Amos Kankunda – Akankuna – Rwampara; 8. Hon. Samuel Okwir – Moroto County 9. Hon. Sylvia Nayebale – Gomba; 10. Hon. Josephat Tumwesigye - Bugangaizi; 11. Hon. Herbert Ariko - Soroti East Division; 12. Hon. Agnes Atim - Amolator; 13. Hon. Donald Katalihwa – Mwenge County; 14. Hon. Aggrey Bagiire – Bunya County South; 15. Hon. Samon Bwiire – Bulamogi; 16. Hon. Keefa Kiwanuka – Kiboga County East; 17. Hon. Maximus Ochai - West Budama North; 18. Hon. Solomon Silwany – Bukooli Central; 19. Hon. Derrick Orone - Gogonya; 20. Hon. Alex Ruhunda – Fort Portal Central; 21. Hon. Iddi Isabirye – Bunya South; 22. Hon. Mourine Osoru – Arua City; 23. Hon. Annet Katusiime – Bushenyi; 24. Hon. Gyaviira Ssemwanga - Buyamba; 25. Hon. John Baptist Lokii - Mathenico; 26. Hon. Muhamad Ssentayi – Bukoto County West; 27. Hon. John Teira – Budiope County North; 28. Hon. Faith Nakut – Napak; 29. Hon. Mwine Mpaka – Mbarara South Division; 30. Hon. Brenda Namukuta - Kaliro; 31. Hon. James Kaberuka – Kinizi County; 32. Hon. Lillian Aber - Amolator; 33. Hon. Catheline Ndamira - Kabale; 34. Hon. Linos Ngompek – Kibanda North; 35. Hon. Dicksons Kateshumbwa – Sheema Municipality; 36. Hon. Laura Kanushu - Workers; 37. Hon. Fred Opolot - Pingire; 38. Hon. Bernard Odoi – Youth Eastern; 39. Hon. Juliet Bashiisha - Mitooma; 40. Hon. Michael Bukenya - Bukuya; 41. Hon. Moses Aleper - Chekwii; and 42. Hon. Fadil Twalla - Tingey. Madam Speaker, I beg to designate.

10996 TRIBUTE T O T HE LATE HON. JOYCE ROVINCER M PANGA Last time, when I returned from visiting Mama Rhoda Kalema, I asked you, honourable colleagues, to make arrangements and reach out to such people. I know if you talked to Hon. Akena, he would make some arrangements with Mama Miria Obote. My mother is in Mitooma. (Laughter) It might be difficult for you to go there and come back for a parliamentary sitting so you can exclude her. We have people we know extremely well that played a critical role and from whom we can learn a lot. To be honest, sometimes these people are lonely. They want to speak to us but cannot reach us. They cannot come to Parliament to look for us. Sometimes, they want to speak to us or for us to even write to them, by the way. I saw Father Grimes saying – I mean, he is looking out for letters; simply hearing from you. Above all, we would learn a lot from such people. Therefore, I encourage you, honourable colleagues, to do so. I usually move around - Most of the people who read books carry foreign ones. When you read the books of such people, you will discover that they are great. I encourage you - Mama Cecilia Ogwal, thank you very much. I appreciate you and associate myself with the statements that you have made here. (Applause) Hon. Namuyangu and then Hon. Naome Kabasharira. Honourable colleagues, you do not have that privilege of Mama Cecilia Ogwal. (Laughter)

10848 STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT allocating 15 per cent of their annual budget to improve the health sector. The health sub- programme budget has been increased in nominal as well as in percentage terms. In the Financial Year 2021/2022, the allocation had reached 14 per cent. Government enhanced the salaries of scientists, mainly the medical personnel. This will push the ratio even higher. Government also reported that in the medium term, given the change in focus in the National Development Plan III to prioritise enhancing the productivity and social well-being of the population in the country, more investment is expected in the sector in the medium term. In the budget for the Financial Year 2023/2024, Government has prioritised the human capital development programme to which the health sub-sector belongs. Starting with the Financial Year 2023/2024, Government is committed to annually increasing the budget for antiretroviral treatment by Shs 50 billion per annum. The committee recommends the provision of adequate funds to the health sector as per the Abuja Declaration to enable the sector improve the health needs of the citizens. Recommendation 16: The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development should provide adequate funding to the National Environmental Management Authority to maintain and sustain early warning systems where applicable. The Government reported that the total budget for Vote 150 for National Environmental Management Authority has been increased from Shs 18.943 billion in the Financial Year 2022/2023, to Shs 41.360 billion, in the Financial Year 2023/2024 to facilitate recruitment of additional staff and strengthening environmental protection. The committee recommends that this should be done. Recommendation 17: The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development should increase funding to provide adequate accommodation to police officers - Mr Speaker, there is a long narrative that follows; I will try to summarise it. In the budget for the Financial Year 2022/2023, the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development provided Shs 26.212 billion for the following: i. The construction of seven accommodation blocks - 10 units per block - in the districts of Nakasongola, Sheema, Busolwe, Mitooma, Kanungu, Kakumiro, Katwe- Kabatoro and Ntungamo; ii. Completed the construction and commissioned seven blocks, a total of 420 housing units of the Naguru Apartments; iii. Construction of Kira Division staff apartments, 24 units is at 80 per cent; iv. Erected and installed 5,410 double- occupancy uniports out of 6,446; a total of 84 per cent across the country; and v. Constructed 45 housing units, five units each block, in Butebo, Bukwo, Namisindwa, Amudat, Alebtong, Nabilatuk, Karenga, Kwania and Obongi, pending commissioning. In the budget for the Financial Year 2023/2024, the budget for residential buildings is Shs 26.412 billion, a slight increase of Shs 0.2 billion from the level of Financial Year 2022/2023. The committee recommends that the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development should give special consideration to the development budget of Uganda Police Force. Mr Speaker, by way of summary, permit me to state the following – that the report captures recommendations in respect to: i. The Ministry of Water and Environment (page 21); ii. The Petroleum Authority of Uganda, (page 23); iii. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (page 23);

Thank you. Honourable minister, when you get ready, I think you need to go back and sit with your e-mobility team and come back to us to discuss it separately. The biggest issue with e-mobility is charging stations - let alone minerals and we should not reduce it to boda bodas. What about private cars? I have heard Mercedes and Toyota companies saying that they will stop producing oil consumptive vehicles by 2030. I have read a very interesting report – but which means we should never be scared of oil for driving because it is a very small portion of oil. Oil is used to make very many other things and so, that is not a big issue. However, the issue is charging stations. I do not know what we can do about it when the world is about to stop producing vehicles that produce oil and gas. The penalties are very huge whereby car manufacturing companies will be thoroughly investigated by looking at their carbon footprint and most of it is on the vehicles they are producing. So, you need to ask your people on what they are doing about this. If you put up charging stations or if we could guide Ugandans - because in many countries, honourable minister, nearly every shopping mall has charging stations. As people are shopping, the car is charging for free. These are in all public places such as schools, churches etc. Additionally, even people’s homes, charging stations have been put up though people are scared of what the cost of a charging station would be - for how long can it charge? If I reach in Masaka or Mitooma for example, will I need to charge it again? So, you need to look at it deeply for us to address the issue of the low-hanging fruits in terms of e-mobility and then electric cars will start coming here. Honourable minister, I will give you space anytime you feel ready on that. Thank you. Colleagues, the next item we have on the Order Paper - I have discussed with Hon. Wanda Richard and there are some consultations we need to make on it; I am going to hold a meeting comprising the minister and the movers for us to first address a few things which came in today. After that we shall determine how to handle this petition later on. Honourable minister, I have forwarded that petition to you. I need some responses by Monday so that on Tuesday we can hold that critical meeting to address the salient issues before we move forward. Thank you. Let us move to item No.6. MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT TO ADOPT THE RECOMMENDATIONS CONTAINED IN THE AUDITOR-GENERAL’S REPORT FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2022

The trend of accumulated arrears No Year End Amount (UGXI o/o increase/decrease 1 30ft June 2O2O L3,228,441,399 2 30ft June 2O2I 20,313,148,061 34.9o/o 3 30ft June 2022 14,353,976,164 (4r.s%l The Accounting Officer explained that the bigger chunk of the arrears related to tea nursery operators, and that UGX lbn of the arrears had been paid in the previous financial year. He further explained that part of the reasons for the delay was because there were problems with the accounts of some of the operators and the money paid bounced back. He further explained that in some instances there were commitments made and yet the money received was less. The Committee found that part of the money related to nursery bed operators in the Districts of Kisoro, Kabale, Rukiga, Rubanda, Ntungamo, Rukungiri, Mitooma, Kanungu, and Mbarara who had supplied seedlings to NAADS but were not paid. The nursery bed operators, numberingT l 1, sought to sue NAADS to recover the money. Some of the operators; Frank Byaruhanga, Dr. Francis Runumi, George Owakukiroru, Caleb Kipande Tumwesimira, Sam Kajojo Arinaitwe, Julius T\rmushabe, Fidelis Kanyamun5ru, and Rev. Bernard Mugisha sought the assistance of a lawyer, a one Patrick Kiconco Katabaazi to obtain a Representative Order to allow them file a suit against the government. The Representative OrderMisc.ApplicationNo. OOO9of 2019wasobtainedon lstJuly, tiffs instructed the lawyer to file a suit, Bganthanga Frank & 7 Ors. V Agricttltttral Aduisory Seruices & 11 Ors. Ciuil Suit No.889 of 2019, in which they claimed UGX 143,621,201,500. The matter culminated into a consent judgment filed on O7ft January, 2021. At the time of the consent judgment, UGX 27.3bn was outstanding. lt was agreed that the payments be made through the lawye rllaw firm. The OS$N, lawyer, Mr Katabaazi informed the Committee that he had received a total qft\ ,/ UGX 39bn on behalf of the Plaintiffs. N ' 3 Some of the operators the Committee interfaced with informed the Committee that they had not received all the money due to them, and accused Mr. Katabaazi of not remitting to them all the money due to them. Mr Katabaazi submitted that the Plaintiffs had instructed him to pay the 71 I s based on a criteria =a*^"g" ,?,7" t !" ,')r lt( ; ik."," il,( & \--+-'r a> @,

Thank you. Honourable colleagues, I can see the Members looking at each other but Ntungamo District - sometimes, I know the Members of Parliament – is unique. It has around five to six districts in it if you are to talk of an average Ugandan district. This is a problem, which the Central Government needs to look at. Service delivery based on administrative units cannot be effective. We should consider other parameters. For example, Ntungamo District getting the same quota as Mitooma District - that is cheating the people of Ntungamo. That is why there is clamour all the time; districts give us this and that. Another example is Wakiso District. As the Government, you need to have a unique way of looking at them. About the issue of schools, honourable Minister of Education and Sports; you have heard the prayers.

Thank you. Hon. Yeri, in his draft Bill, is saying that for every development, there should be a requirement for water harvesting and storage. He has also told you that it is a shame to find that it is raining and people are walking in the rain to collect water instead of collecting the one, which is falling. In summary, that is what I picked. I will allow the seconder, Hon. Juliet Bashiisha. You should know she is from Mitooma so you better listen to her properly. She is an extension of the Speaker. (Laughter)

I saw the finance minister nodding to that . (Laughter) You have touched his heart; with the Shs 2 billion for our young people- No clarification, because there is no one on the Floor. Clarification applies when there is someone on the Floor. (Laughter) On the issue- please. Honourable colleagues, on the issue of education, I raised that issue and the President responded to me- honourable minister, maybe when you are responding it will be good if you update us. He said there is a commission he put in place that is doing a review chaired by the Hon. Amanya Mushega and he said this is one of the issues they should look at. Therefore, when you are going to respond, it is one of the issues that we need an update on. Scholarships are being given to the children of the rich. (Applause) Honourable colleagues, it is our children who can – and yet there are many ways to reward students for hard work. For a student to come from Terego or Mitooma and score marks for medicine – you have left children of the poor to study courses like education and social sciences and that is why they cannot compete for jobs. MINISTERIAL STATEMENT [Ms Kirabo]

Thank you. Honourable minister, I think it is very helpful when you say that. Honourable colleagues, if you have lines in your area that have lasted one, two or three years and they are still stuck, it is very important that you inform the minister. This is part of your oversight role, which also helps her to go to her staff and say: “You are telling me A, B, C and D but the MP is telling me A, B, C and D.” I will pick Hon. Itungo, Hon. Oseku, Hon. Enos, the Member from Kabarole, Hon. Mutiwa, Hon Byanyima, Hon. Esenu, the Member from Kanungu, Hon. Naigaga – our champion – and then the Member from Kaberamaido. No, for Namutumba, I have picked Hon. Naigaga; she should speak for Namutumba. Hon. Pacuto, the Member from Terego – I will allow, you, the chairperson of the committee. For the islands, I will pick Hon. Migadde. I will then pick Hon. Kaberuka – Hon. Kahonda, do not mind; I am speaking for Mitooma (Laughter). Hon. Fox, Hon. Rwemulikya – for Bugisu, I am picking Hon. Nangoli - Acholi? Which area is Jonam? For Karamoja, I will pick Hon. Stella. Sebei? You had already spoken. Honourable colleagues, I am trying to see if there is any other MP from Sebei, who is around and has not yet spoken. Yes, I will pick Hon. Phyllis. From Teso, I will pick Hon. Okupa.

Thank you, honourable minister. This is very critical information. What I picked is the issue of the new students. Honourable minister, this loan scheme is some sort of equaliser. (Applause) It is a debt of some sort. This is the only opportunity where a student from Karamoja will go for Medicine - (Applause) - and especially critical courses. I was checking the list. For example, regarding the students you have given me, for Government sponsorship in Mitooma, I only get courses like Education and Social Works and Social Administration (SWASA) and Social Sciences. I try to check – No, that is under district quota because every district gets. - I try to see whether I can have a student for Medicine - never. I try to see whether I can have a student for Engineering, never and these are the courses for which you are rewarding people handsomely, as a Government, by saying “Scientists are going to be well paid.” Then, courses for our poor people, you have made it a policy, they have to wait until you get more money. However, these courses are being taken by people who are well-off. Therefore, this is the only course where I know that I might not get marks of Makerere, but I will get for Kampala International University (KIU) and I study Medicine, that I get or for Ndejje and I study Engineering. This is why you see us, - honourable minister, this is very serious. However, I am concerned by your statement where you are saying you will bring a supplementary. Have you reached out to these institutions to say, “do not chase our students, we are going to give you the money”? The students have been chased out of school, the new ones are stuck; they have not been admitted, what are you doing about it? Number two, you are allowed to spend money under three per cent and you report to Parliament. Why don’t you consider this as a very important priority? You use the three per cent supplementary, you release money and then, you will come here and we give you approval. Honourable minister, last time - when we are interacting with you, we interact well and we like each other so much. We show you where you are clever - Very critical items, which they know cannot fail to past pass through this House, are put under supplementary for prior approval while very questionable items are put under three per cent; you come here when you have already spent. However, you look at Hon. Kasaija saying that you refused to approve Shs one trillion. You say, “even if you refused, we will pay back the Shs one trillion?” It is a practice year after year. On this where our students are being chased and not allowed in schools, why don’t you utilise the three per cent since you have committed to the supplementary? Let me just pick a few colleagues. I am going to pick the Members from Karamoja, Teso, Bunyoro and Youths representative, Hon Esenu, Hon. Kyooma, I pick - Which district is that one? Hon. Dorcas. I have taken long without seeing you, honourable. Those ones I had already picked today, who know my policy –(Member rose_) No, wait a bit. I will pick Hon. Kangwagye, Hon. Rwemulikya, the Members from Terego, Bungokho and Sebei. Hon. Katuntu, the Members from; Jonam, Lango, Bukedi, Kabale and Dr Opio.

My procedure is that Ntungamo District has got five counties with 2,000 kilometres of roads and we have districts which have 60 kilometres of roads, but we passed that each district gets Shs 1 billion. Are we proceeding right for Ntungamo District to get Shs 1 billion with five counties, which is equivalent to your district, Mitooma? Thank you. (Laughter)

The Speaker must give a ruling on a procedural matter. We are proceeding well because we are the ones who passed that money and not anyone else. However, it was a huge improvement from what we had. A good example is that my district, Mitooma, which was getting Shs 320 million; if you add us Shs 1 billion, then we are getting good money. The concern of the honourable colleague is valid because of how we do service delivery. Giving service delivery basing on administrative units is what has led to clamour for creation of more administrative units.

10391 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2023 When you look at a district like Ntungamo, it is four times the size of Mitooma. If such a district has Shs 1 billion – and I know districts which have one constituency also getting the same money; it is something Government needs to look into. Rt Hon. Prime Minister, I do not know whether you are looking into that.

Mr Speaker, that issue came to Cabinet’s attention on Monday and the President guided that Shs 1 billion was for maintenance of roads and that the already existing budgets should remain. The Shs 1 billion was a relief by Government to help all the districts across the country. For example, Wakiso District which is big has a budget of over Shs 1.2 billion. The next district, which is Kiboga has a budget of Shs 460 million. Kakumiro District has a budget of Shs 396 million and Mitooma District might be having even less.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I have a concern about an officer in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, who took 13 land titles from my people in Ruhinda Constituency. Seven years down the road, they are still claiming for their land titles, but in vain. I have tried to engage all gears; I have talked to the minister. I even engaged the area MP, Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Kahinda Otafiire who even called, but they are not helping. I also engaged the former minister, seated next to you – and he knows the person; he is by the name of Saul Kato. He even blocked me because I have been calling him; he has now even changed the number. I request that you come in and help my people to get back their land titles, which were taken when they were getting compensated for Kashenyi-Mitooma Road. Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Thank you. Hon. Waako? Oh, my Woman MP is a teacher – Mitooma. Yes. So, Hon. Waako first and, then, Hon. Bashiisha.

Thank you, Mr Speaker, again for the opportunity. Thank you, honourable minister, for the statement and the committee for the report. We are talking about fuel prices versus the cost of living. Who is affected? It is the schools. We have talked about no increase on school fees here, and yet food prices and scholastic materials are going up. How do we expect them to be funded? Therefore, we need to work on fuel. Two, as Members of Parliament, there is no decrease in the distances we cover to our constituencies yet the fuel price has almost doubled. Mr Speaker, the fuel you are paid may not be enough to take you up to Mbarara. So, how will you superintend over your constituency in Mitooma? It has become a very serious issue that needs attention. Three, the citizens who use taxis, boda-bodas and other public transport - this will ultimately affect the performance of the PDM. I beg to submit.

10251 Tuesday, 3 October 20 23 I would like to inform the Leader of Government Business and the Government Chief Whip that the Ministers should always be here to answer these issues so that we do not have pending items, which clog the Order Paper. Once we do it that way, we shall be smarter. I utilised the recess to visit all my parishes. I have 27 parishes in my constituency and I was accompanied by the Mitooma Woman Member of Parliament, Hon. Juliet Bashiisha. We sensitised our people on the Parish Development Model (PDM), but also did oversight on how it was working. We found, among other issues, that money had, indeed, been released to districts, but there were some parishes which had released zero and others a hundred per cent. By the time I left, Mitooma District was at about 56 per cent in terms of disbursement. We also received many complaints from the people including your constituents, ranging from Mayuge to Mityana districts. Most of them came through social media and I compiled them. There were cross-cutting issues including; people being charged money to be listed on computers, for filling forms and for following up. I found out that husbands had to sign for their wives before the latter could receive money. One of the women told me that when she got the money, her husband said that they had to share it because, without his signature, she would not have received it. IN THE PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA Official Report of the Proceedings of Parliament THIRD SESSION - 1ST SITTING - SECOND MEETING Parliament met at 2.04 p.m. in Parliament House, Kampala. PRAYERS (The Deputy Speaker, Mr Thomas Tayebwa, in the Chair.) The House was called to order. COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHAIR

Honourable members, it is also appropriate to have a stadium in Mitooma. (Laughter) So, please, take serious note. I had allowed the Member from Mbarara, then Hon. Nebanda and then Hon. Beatrice Akori.

Honourable member, today we are discussing stadiums not playgrounds. (Laughter) Otherwise, Mitooma would have qualified.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Honourable chairperson of UWOPA, thank you very much for this petition. Sometime last year, I visited Mitooma Health Centre IV – and it was a weekend. I was surprised to find women lining up to go and give birth. There was only one midwife; the rest had gone for the weekend. This was very unfortunate because with delivery, you cannot say this is Monday, I will wait until maybe Saturday to start labour pains. So, absenteeism amongst those midwives is also a challenge. We have another challenge of our own staff ferrying medical items out of the health facilities. In the last two weeks, I witnessed the offloading of boxes of gloves in my district. It is not that they do not supply them; they have, but they sell them. We have drug shops around all hospitals, including here at Mulago. Who owns those drug shops and pharmacies? So, we have to even check ourselves. Are we working ethically? Lastly, Mr Speaker, I do not know whether you have also observed that these days, someone who fails exams prefers to go for nursing – (Interjection) - yes, some of them go after they have failed exams – (Member timed out.)

8757 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023 161) Vote 876: Kyegegwa District – Shs 23,846,624,000 162) Vote 877: Kyenjojo District – Shs 35,581,507,000 163) Vote 878: Kyotera District – Shs 35,036,531,000 164) Vote 879: Lamwo District – Shs 18,485,759,000 165) Vote 880: Lira District – Shs 27,100,374,000 166) Vote 881: Luuka District – Shs 25,440,932,000 167) Vote 882: Luweero District – Shs 63,300,117,000 168) Vote 883: Lwengo District – Shs 27,153,735,000 169) Vote 884: Lyantonde District – Shs 18,276,836,000 170) Vote 885: Madi-Okollo District – Shs 17,665,819,000 171) Vote 886: Manafwa District – Shs 25,992,671,000 172) Vote 887: Maracha District – Shs 25,235,124,000 173) Vote 888: Masaka District – Shs 13,315,598,000 174) Vote 889: Masindi District – Shs 23,520,737,000 175) Vote 890: Mayuge District – Shs 42,544,940,000 176) Vote 891: Mbale District – Shs 36,346,216,000 177) Vote 892: Mbarara District – Shs 23,774,583,000 178) Vote 893: Mitooma District – Shs 27,230,403,000 179) Vote 894: Mityana District – Shs 31,132,617,000 180) Vote 895: Moroto District – Shs 13,533,113,000 181) Vote 896: Moyo District – Shs 20,493,308,000 182) Vote 897: Mpigi District – Shs 30,334,080,000 183) Vote 898: Mubende District – Shs 25,717,019,000 184) Vote 899: Mukono District – Shs 49,808,239,000 185) Vote 900: Nabilatuk District – Shs 8,965,015,000 186) Vote 857: Katakwi District - Shs 25,335,675,000 187) Vote 858: Kayunga District - Shs 37,361,049,000 188) Vote 859: Kazo District – Shs 18,099,602,000 189) Vote 860: Kibaale District - Shs 17,514,216,000 190) Vote 861: Kiboga District – Shs 25,621,222,000 191) Vote 862: Kibuku District – Shs 21,510,868,000 192) Vote 863: Kikuube District – Shs 22,027,669,000 193) Vote 864: Kiruhura District – Shs 18,214,354,000 194) Vote 865: Kiryandongo District - Shs 28,181,672,000

8758 BUDGETARY PROPOSALS & ESTIMATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023/2024 195) Vote 866: Kisoro District - Shs 41,251,167,000 196) Vote 867: Kitagwenda District – Shs 19,274,549,000 197) Vote 868: Kitgum District - Shs 28,277,064,000 198) Vote 869: Koboko District - Shs 19,175,066,000 199) Vote 870: Kole District – Shs 24,145,853,000 200) Vote 871: Kotido District – Shs 11,301,208,000 201) Vote 872: Kumi District - Shs 25,388,394,000 202) Vote 873: Kwania District – Shs 22,753,848,000 203) Vote 874: Kween District – Shs 19,391,073,000 204) Vote 875: Kyankwanzi District – Shs 24,244,929,000 205) Vote 876: Kyegegwa District – Shs 23,846,624,000 206) Vote 877: Kyenjojo District – Shs 35,581,507,000 207) Vote 878: Kyotera District – Shs 35,036,531,000 208) Vote 879: Lamwo District – Shs 18,485,759,000 209) Vote 880: Lira District – Shs 27,100,374,000 210) Vote 881: Luuka District – Shs 25,440,932,000 211) Vote 882: Luweero District – Shs 63,300,117,000 212) Vote 883: Lwengo District – Shs 27,153,735,000 213) Vote 884: Lyantonde District – Shs 18,276,836,000 214) Vote 885: Madi-Okollo District – Shs 17,665,819,000 215) Vote 886: Manafwa District – Shs 25,992,671,000 216) Vote 887: Maracha District – Shs 25,235,124,000 217) Vote 888: Masaka District – Shs 13,315,598,000 218) Vote 889: Masindi District – Shs 23,520,737,000 219) Vote 890: Mayuge District – Shs 42,544,940,000 220) Vote 891: Mbale District – Shs 36,346,216,000 221) Vote 892: Mbarara District – Shs 23,774,583,000 222) Vote 893: Mitooma District – Shs 27,230,403,000 223) Vote 894: Mityana District – Shs 31,132,617,000 224) Vote 895: Moroto District – Shs 13,533,113,000 225) Vote 896: Moyo District – Shs 20,493,308,000 226) Vote 897: Mpigi District – Shs 30,334,080,000 227) Vote 898: Mubende District – Shs 25,717,019,000 228) Vote 899: Mukono District – Shs 49,808,239,000

Mr Chairperson, I seek clarification on two Votes under local government, that is Vote 827: Butambala District - Shs 1.5 billion and Vote 893: Mitooma District Local Government - Shs 2.628 billion for 47 kilometres of roads. I request that that is explained.

Mr Chairperson, I took my notes very well. I have looked at the figures that were under Part A. I even have the items I wanted to query with their Votes. For example, the one that the committee wrote that requires Parliament to approve first is Vote 003 under the Office of the Prime Minister, which is Shs 1.5 billion for commencement of land preparation for a humanitarian base in Namanve. I have an issue with that. The second one is Vote 008: Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. Under Part B, it is Shs 2 billion for EAC meetings on tax policy conventions. Then I have Vote 893: Mitooma District Local Government, the sum of Shs 2.628 billion to rehabilitate 47 kilometres of roads and the roads are even captured. My issue is on Shs 2 billion to do 47 kilometres of roads. This is why I am seeking clarification.

Mr Chairperson, I do not know why the finance minister or chairperson is not coming to explain. Monies for local governments were given wrong codes and so, the local governments could not spend until Parliament revotes and puts them in the right codes. That is the money being captured in districts like Butambala and Mitooma. What is the problem with that?

Thank you. Hon. Harold Muhindo? Let me finish with Kasese and Bundibugyo group. Hon. Acrobert Kiiza, for your information, even people from Mitooma District, it is Kilembe Mines Hospital that has been serving us, including people of Buhweju, especially on fractures. They are specialists and people from that region - now, I think people are going to Mbale and Kumi. That is a specialised hospital for the whole of the Western Region. Yes, Hon. Harold Muhindo?

8379 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 26 APRIL 2023 The committee was further informed that a team composed of personnel from the Directorate of Research, Planning and Development, Human Resource Development, Human Resource and Management, crime intelligence and logistics and engineering was constituted to review the applications and come up with a short list for applicants for the post of PPC general duties and PPC drivers to be invited for interviews. Recruitment criteria for PPCs, a total of 9900 applications were received out of which 1846 including 1261 males and 585 females, qualified to be shortlisted for interviews. Of the 15 applicants Uganda police received from Buhweju District, none of them qualified, some districts failed to meet there quarter namely: Nabilatuk, Koboko, Yuymbe, Kakumiro, kibale, kikube, KIryandongo, Kyegegwa, Kitagwenda, Rakai, Lwengo, Kalungu, Kazo, Bududa, Sironko, Kaabong, Mityana, Mpigi, Gomba, Nakaseke, and Buyende. Police Force leadership explained the allocation of these quarters was in line with the constitutional requirement of nationalistic and patriotic police forces and shall ensure that members of the Uganda police force are rec recruited from every district in Uganda. It was further explained that quotas allocated to districts are based on the population projections as provided by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). The committee observed that the recruiting exercise had variances in the number of short- listed candidates per district. For example, Masaka City had 14, Masaka District had seven, Gulu City had 32, Soroti had 22 and Mitooma four. The committee queried the criteria used to allocate the said numbers. It further noted that in the circumstance where a district or a city did not meet the number for the quarter, the balance was given to the neighbouring district since districts are being cut often but stay within the geographical area. The committee was informed that variance in recruitment is based on the population quarter of which the formula is provided by the constitution and based on UBOS figures. The committee is satisfied that the variance in quarters given to different districts is justified. The committee noted that the recruitment exercise was centralised with the application being submitted at regional police offices and forwarded to police headquarters for processing. The committee recommends that whereas the Police Force conduct the recruitment exercise at the regional level due to COVID-19 pandemic, in future, the exercise should be done at the district headquarters as has been the practice. This will promote transparency in the exercise. Recruitment criteria for UCE leavers A total of 1488 applications were received and of these, 853 were found suitable for the next stage. These cut across all classes of driving permits. The recruitment exercise was in accordance with the second advert run by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The committee noted that all interested persons had to file applications accompanied by a recommendation letter from local authorities, as proof that the applicant is a resident of a particular district, a Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) with 4 credits including English and at least a pass in mathematics obtained not earlier 2018, a valid driving license for those applying for the position of PPC drivers and a national id card as proof of Nationality. The committee recommends that there should be a verification committee comprised of the LCIII chairperson, subcounty chief and GISO before the applicant submits the application to the police force to minimise forgeries. The committee is satisfied that the advert for recruitment was made public on print media, radio and television and therefore applicants were aware of all the requirements for the positions they applied for. Originality and Identity of Applicants It was alleged that most of the people shortlisted per district were not residents of the said district. A case in point was Masaka City

Thank you. However, honourable colleagues, if you say that the Shs 1 billion we have goes into rehabilitation, it cannot even do - our biggest problem is the maintenance of our small roads; that is all we have. When we are appropriating - at that stage where we have full power - we shall determine whether to send it under Uganda Road Fund for maintenance. Like in my area, tell me, what will you rehabilitate? Then, it will mean you have not given me anything in Mitooma because I do not have anything to rehabilitate. I need you to maintain our small poor roads. The moment you do that, you lift the burden off the shoulders of these MPs. So, I really thank you, honourable minister and the President, for committing and ensuring that you delivered on this. Our role is to do a follow-up. Honourable colleagues, what this means is that you must ensure you attend your road committee meetings in the districts because you are part of the road committee. If it is not there, ensure that there is a road committee. Otherwise, that money will also be misused; it will be diverted to allowances - you know how they do reallocation among priorities of the districts - and it will be lost.

Mr Speaker, on the issue of administrative units, we either find money for them or merge them if we cannot manage to facilitate or provide money for them. You cannot just go and – I do not want to use the word “masquerade”. You cannot just go and say, “we have given you a district”, yet the district cannot even have an administration block. Buhweju District is now stuck. They started, roofed but cannot proceed. I do not know how far Mitooma and other new districts have gone. However, they are districts but operating in very small structures. Some cities are fighting with districts over office space. Town councils and subcounties were created, but they are stuck. Mr Speaker, we get the blame, as Members of Parliament, as if we are not doing anything about it – because they were created here. Mr Speaker, I think we need to find money for these units. If we cannot find the money, then, we should merge them so that we stop pretending that we have units for which we cannot provide money. I thank you.

8092 Disclaimer: The electronic version of the Official Report of the proceedings of Parliament (Hansard) is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Office of the Clerk to Parliament. MINISTERIAL POLICY STATEMENTS & BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR THE FY 2023/2024 iii. Inter-agency land wrangles The committee recommends that an inter- agency committee be instituted to resolve these wrangles and expedite the process of resolving the conflict to pave way for Government programmes. Anti-tick vaccines The committee notes that NARO is in the final stages of rolling out the anti-tick vaccine. The vaccine trials shall be concluded in the next six months; they are being tried in some of the NARO centres. The committee recommends that Shs 16 billion be repurposed to ZARDIs. We realise that ZARDIs depends on the headquarters and sometimes they are bogged down. That is why the committee recommends that to each of the 16 ZARDIs, one billion be sent to each to facilitate research. On sunflower and research and seed production for import substitution, the committee recommends that Shs 15 billion be provided to Serere ZARDI that is specialised in producing and multiplying sunflower seeds. On the multiplication and delivery of technologies for food and nutrition security at Nabuin, the committee recommends that Shs 10 billion be provided for to multiply and deliver technologies for food and nutrition security. Vote 151: National Agriculture Advisory Services The committee observes that the Vote has experienced significant budget cuts in the Financial Year 2023/2024, losing Shs 23.45 billion in total. The committee recommends as follows: i) That Shs 58.6 billion be reinstated to enable the Vote consolidate its current achievements; ii) That Shs 44 billion be provided to supply beans and maize seeds to address food security as the PDM gets fully operational; iii) Shs 10 billion be reallocated from Vote 010 – MAAIF, for related items, to Vote 152 - NAADS as follows: a) Shs 3.2 billion for Hass Avocado; b) Shs 4 billion for cashew nuts; c) Shs 2.8 billion for procurement and supply of goats; and d) Shs 20 billion be provided to purchase and distribute hoes to the remaining districts that have not received them. On the duplication of activities, the committee recommends that Shs 3 billion meant for the provision of milk coolers, under Vote 152: NAADS, be relocated to Vote 121: DDA, which is the mandated agency for the effective provision of the milk coolers. The committee observed that following a Cabinet directive on special intervention to evacuate tea and coffee seedlings from nurseries, NAADS supplied tea seedlings to a tune of Shs 61.096 billion to farmers in six district local governments (Mitooma, Buhweju, Bushenyi, Sheema, Rukungiri and Kanungu). No funds have been provided in the budget to clear these arrears. The committee recommends that Shs 61.096 billion be provided to clear these arrears. Vote 152: Uganda Cotton Development Organisation The committee recommends as follows: i) That Shs 0.163 billion be provided for setting the country’s cotton standards and reinstate it to meet its statutory requirements; ii) That Shs 5 billion be provided for farm - ers’ mobilisation, seed multiplication, production and pesticides to farmers; and

Sector Intcnreation Invcstmcnt Plaaacd activitlea, tluetlflcatlon Anoun t (Bn ucxl Construction works commence Tea Processing Factory in ?.ombo . Develop Master plan . Procure an EPC Contractor and commence construction works . Provision of working Capital 15.4 Tea pnoceEslng Tea Processing Factory Mitooma Undertake feasibility study and project appraisal Develop a master plan, detailed technical engineering designs, bills of quantities & undertake Environmental & Social Impact Assessment, geo-technical survey studies a 10.0 Potato proceselag Potato Processing Plant Acquire land for constructing the factory a 18.5 Cocoa proceaalng I Cocoa Processing Factory Acquire land for constructing the factory Develop a master plan, detailed technical engineering designs, bills of quantities & undertake Environmental & Social Impact Assessment, geo-technical survey studies c 28.4 J-N s2

Let us get a quick solution, colleagues. We can agree on which minister, or if necessary, our committee to give us the status of accounting officers who were suspended for the last three financial years. This is because reasons were given for their suspension. We want to know whether their issues were sorted or not. Some were transferred - one of them found his way into my district, Mitooma. All of sudden, I saw that they came and picked him and I said, “But you are the ones who sent him here. We never requested for him.” Hon. Bahati, do you think we should go with a minister or should we use our committee to do the work?

My concern is that there is a right to be heard and it is a constitutional right. While we look at this list that has been presented to us, we do not get to see another list after the hearing. Our presumption is that the person who appeared on this list ought to have been cut off. For example, when he or she appears in Mitooma, we do not know whether this person had his or her matter presented and cleared. Therefore, I request, as the Speaker has guided, that we bring information relating to the past three years. Let us go, look at it and harmonise amongst ourselves and see how best to address this matter.

Honourable minister, please assess Mitooma also; we do not have a district hospital there too.

We recommend the approval. Vote 139: Petroleum Authority of Uganda - A requirement of Shs 11 billion to take care of the activities on EACOP and refinery development. The committee recommends approval of Shs 11 billion. Vote 144: Uganda Police Force – Shs 68 billion as follows: a) Shs 38.5 billion to meet contractual obligation on CCTV Phase II equipment. b) Shs 26 billion for maintenance of CCTV equipment acquired during the first phase and Phase II, and c) Shs 3.5 billion to purchase security vehicles for judges. We recommend approval of Shs 68 billion to Uganda Police Force. Vote 155: Cotton Development Organisation (CDO) - Requirement of Shs 9.5 billion of which Shs 7.5 billion is to take care of buffer stock fund and Shs 2 billion for transport rebate for Fine Spinners Uganda Limited. We recommend approval of Shs 9.5 billion. Vote 301: Makerere University - A requirement of Shs 8 billion for renovation of Lumumba and Mary Stuart Halls. We recommend approval of Shs 8 billion. Vote 307: Kabale University – Shs 3.213 billion non-tax revenue. This is to take care of the printing of examinations, repair of old buildings, facilitation of part-time lecturers and purchase of laboratory equipment. We recommend the approval of Shs 3.213 billion. Vote 532: Uganda Embassy in Somalia, Mogadishu – Shs 731 million. This is for shortfall, security-related issues and renovation. We recommend the approval. Vote 858: Kayunga District – Shs 837 million. These are unspent funds sent back to the Consolidated Fund at the end of the Financial Year 2021/2022 to enable the UPDF Engineering Brigade complete construction of health centre III. We recommend the approval. Vote 893: Mitooma District – Shs 2.628 billion for rehabilitation of roads; Kizinda-Rutookye- Bitereko. We recommend approval. Vote 924: Rukungiri District – Shs 1.795 billion as unspent funds for the Financial Year 2021/2022 for Uganda Inter-Government fiscal transfer reform for construction of seed schools and upgrade of health centres II to III. We recommend Shs 1.795 billion. Various central and local government Votes – Shs 402.401 billion to meet wage shortfalls arising from the new policy to enhance wages of scientists for the Financial Year 2022/2023. Honourable Members, see Annex III attached. We recommend the approval. However, on that schedule, we defer Shs 72 million for wage shortfall under Vote 112 –

Rule 77 does not allow me to debate, but I have a representative who debates on my behalf - she is the one who went through my constituency; so, please, welcome the Woman MP, Mitooma . (Laughter)

Mr Speaker, I wish to report that by the time I did my oversight visit, Mitooma District had not received funds; it was among those districts that were missing. For that matter, some of the parishes, as my sister Hon. Kabanda has said, Bukiriro - I am forgetting another one from the Deputy Speaker’s constituency. They were not considered because they were newly created. Secondly, when we were ushering in the PDM, we were convinced that one of the pillars would be complete mind-set change. However, to my surprise, people still believe in dependence rather than productivity. The moment a Member of Parliament tries to visit a home to help them with knowledge, when you leave without giving something, they are on to you. We have a challenge; the moment you send us out, they know you are sending us with money. Even the leaders at the district are waiting. You call them for a discussion and they want you to give them transport and lunch. I visited an office in the district and when I went to the production office, he sent me to the commercial office, and then all the councillors were following me because they see us as their messiah and they needed to have lunch that day. I request that we have a secretariat at the district because when you go there, you find they are all uninformed about what is taking place. I request that as you have a secretariat at the national level, let there be a secretariat at the district. Lastly, there is a problem of coordination at the parish level. Most of the parishes are actually briefcase parishes, including my own. They do not have offices, land and even the old parishes have run down headquarters. Therefore, you cannot even follow up the parish chief because they do not have addresses. I request that as you do whatever you do, make sure that the parishes have headquarters. Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Thank you, honourable colleague. Resolutions of this House are always extracted and communicated to the relevant authorities – and we did that. What is needed is a follow-up. I am sure there is very strong goodwill from the Government to ensure that those resolutions are implemented. Honourable colleagues, in the gallery - on a selfish note - we have leaders from Mitooma. (Laughter) We have LC5 councillors and LC3 chairpersons from the whole of Mitooma District. We also have the LC3 speakers, the Chief Administrative Officer, Mr Edith Turyasasirwa, and the RDC. They are led by the RDC, Mr Kibuuka Amooti and the Chairman LC5, Mr Benon Karyeija. I also have the District Speaker, Mr Moses Tumwekwase, and his deputy – who is my Greenford – Mr Mucunguzi. They are undergoing training – we are trying to see how best they can be equipped in managing the local government. They are represented by Hon. Juliet Bashiisha, Hon. Kahonda Dononzio, Hon. Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire and Hon. Thomas Tayebwa. (Laughter) Please, join me in welcoming my people. (Applause) Thank you. Now, I am going to set three minutes because I tried to see whether we could be lenient to each other, but if we continue like this, very few people will speak yet many of us want to speak. Let us move with the MPs I had picked.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Jacob loved the vulnerable community. That is why at the time of his passing, he had very many children in school that he was sponsoring. I am glad Parliament, through Members, contributed Shs 1,000,000 each towards his Foundation to ensure those children who he was supporting continue with their education. Last year, we passed a resolution that annually, we would be commemorating our late Speaker through a public memorial lecture. I do not know how far we have gone with that, but I implore you to come up with that programme so that we also celebrate his life with the general public in order for the public to also appreciate his good deeds. Finally, I would like to thank the people of Bukedea and those of Mitooma for sending the two of you to Parliament. You have ably filled the void and we are not missing anything. You are guiding us well, especially the new Members like us and we are really proud of the people who sent you. Thank you. Jah bless! (Applause)

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Allow me to thank the Lord that this has happened in front of the voters from Mitooma. They have seen what has happened and they should learn from the people of Omoro. They lost a gallant son and replaced him with Andrew, in whom they have hope to deliver. I wish that the members from Mitooma could emulate what happened and keep Hon. Tayebwa in Parliament and wait for Rubanda Mayonza to also grow up.

7766 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION The people of Mitooma who were here and have left, we want to thank you for the gift of Rt Hon. Tayebwa who has taken on the mantle. (Applause) To the people of Bukedea, we salute you for the gift of the Rt Hon. Anita Among, who has taken on the mantle. (Applause) The people of all constituencies in Uganda represented in this Parliament - because this Parliament is the summary - we thank you for the gift of the people you have given us. Rt Hon. Dr Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah, we know you are watching us, but we pray that you continue resting in perfect peace. May the good Lord bless you and continue to keep your legacy alive as we proceed as the people who are still alive. Honourable members, I would like to thank you very much. This is another debate that has united the House, just like the one we had this week on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. I believe this is the spirit that we must anchor our debates on and continue to move on. Whether on the Opposition or Government side, we must know that Uganda, the country we all belong to, is bigger than all of us. Today, we are here to render a service and tomorrow, we may not be there. What will you and I be remembered for? That must be the fundamental question. Mr Speaker, thank you very much for guiding and superintending over the House today. I beg to submit, on behalf of Government, and also commit that we will remind the necessary offices and officers to ensure that the different commitments and pledges made are fulfilled; whether in phases or at once, something must be done for them to be fulfilled. I beg to submit. Thank you. (Applause)

Is the motion seconded? It is seconded by Hon. Linda, Hon. Eddie, by member for Mitooma, Hon. Feta, Hon. Peter and the whole House. Thank you.

7145 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 2 FEBRUARY 2023 Mr Speaker, it is high time this Parliament stood with the people of Uganda and left these schools either to the foundation bodies or we amend the law so that all this money is paid into the Consolidated Fund. Then there will be equity in education in this country. (Applause) What is happening in these parent-teacher meetings - Imagine a child comes from Mitooma to a school like St Mary’s College Kisubi. The rich say, “Charge more, we want comfort for our children”, but the poor cannot speak in these meetings. (Applause) Therefore, schools are taking advantage because majority of the parents are rich and they are using that to increase fees and earn more. How can you charge church fees of Shs 85,000? They have even introduced insurance in addition to maintenance and development fees. Mr Speaker, it is – (Member timed out.)

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I wish to support the minority report. Thank you, colleagues, who brought the majority report, but I think it lacked some facts. First and foremost, as my colleague, Hon. Ndeezi has said, you only concentrated here in Kampala because you wanted to save per diem. (Laughter) You were well facilitated; the facilitation you were given was good enough to make sure that you reach as far as Bushenyi and Mitooma. What made you stay here in Kampala? (Interruption)

Rt Hon. Prime Minister, as you come to answer this question, know that we are many – including the Woman MP for Mitooma. Elephants are giving us a headache. When are you intervening?

7167 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 2 FEBRUARY 2023 to inform you, Mitooma has not received it. Bushenyi, which is Hon. Magyezi’s district- I was there on Monday with Hon. Ecweru, they have not received it. But you will receive the reports from the area. On Prime Minister’s Time no procedure.

Honourable colleagues, the Chairperson of the Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs assigned Hon. Kahonda to present this report, and he has informed me formally. So, let him present the report. CPT. (RTD) DONONZIO KAHONDA (NRM, Ruhinda County South, Mitooma): Thank you, Mr Speaker - [Member rose_]

6958 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT d) Be healthy and willing to undergo medical and physical tests. e) Have no criminal record and this proof of good citizenship was LCI and DISO signatures and recommendations. The quotas were distributed as follows: a) 8,400 were shared nationwide based on the district population size. b) 1,000 were mechanics and drivers. c) 600 were scientists qualifying to join the Air force. d) 100 Medical personnel e) 100 brass band musicians f) 50 specialised sportsmen and ladies The committee findings The committee observed that the recruitment covered 146 districts and the recruitment plan covered 134 districts. The 12 districts were accommodated within their former districts, since their district headquarters were not yet established. Quotas allocated to each district were based on the Uganda Bureau of Statistics population data of 2020. On this note, districts like Mitooma, Sheema, Rubirizi, Bushenyi and Buhweju had their recruitment centre at Bushenyi District Headquarters, which was their mother district as well as Greater Mbarara of Rwampara, Isingiro, Ibanda and Mbarara City and Mbarara District as well. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the recruitments were done on zonal levels. For instance, the UPDF recruited a total of 163 people from the districts of Nebbi, Zombo and Pakwach. Here the recruitment centre was in Nebbi. All those that attended were recommended by LCIs and DISOs. Nebbi District was a recruitment centre hosting the other two districts. Despite their quota being 57 for Nebbi District alone, 163 recruits were recruited at the zone. While recruitment is not based on tribe, most of the recruits that came from Nebbi were the Alur, as per their identity cards. The committee was informed that a total of 195 people were recruited from Tororo District and most of their documents were verified by LCI chairpersons of various villages of applicants to ensure that they had no criminal record - and not necessarily to prove their ethnicity, tribe or place of abode. Attached are the copies of IDs and letters of recommendation; letters from LCs and recommendations by GISOs as well. However, this was misunderstood to mean proof of nationality. The committee recommends that LCs and the general public should be sensitised on recruitment procedures and guidelines, in accordance with the UPDF Act of 2005. Advertisements should be clear, easy to understand and should be published in all local newspapers and local radios for wider coverage. There were alarming numbers of forged academic documents and the Uganda national identity cards. Recruits who did not have national IDs, but had already applied were not allowed to use their national identification numbers because it was difficult to attach the face to the NIN. Verification of all other documents required more time and finances, which had its own limitations. The recruitment period should be long enough to allow time to verify all the required documents by the relevant Government institutions and agencies. The national identification numbers should be allowed as long as their genuineness can be verified. The recruitment process should be financed to undertake most of the required activities to avoid haphazard work. The recruitment was done for all Ugandans, as long as they had national identity cards and their LCI or GISO or DISO confirmed that they had the required documents verified by LCIs, DISOs, GISOs, as proof of no criminal record. The committee recommends that there should always be proper scrutiny or vetting of these

6970 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT that. If Nebbi was initially allotted 50 slots and only 10 were filled up, then, in the next round… I wonder how you can say that you have given Mitooma 57 slots and we have failed to get 57 people, when I had over 200 people complaining that they were left out. It becomes really difficult. We hope that it will be better next time.

Honourable colleagues, I would like to thank you for today. I came knowing we would finish by around 5.30 p.m., but your commitment has made me push harder so that we accomplish a bigger part of the Order Paper. We are trying to map out all this business so that we have enough time for the budget framework paper, where I have to urge you to go and research. When you come here, I will give you enough time to make submissions. With the National Budget Framework Paper, please, do not come here to list what your constituency has not got. Let us be nationalistic in our arguments and presentations. Come here as a Member of Parliament of Uganda, not only for Mitooma or Kasilo, but go beyond the horizon and analyse the budget. You do not need to analyse the whole budget; you might have a sector that you are interested in and want to see how best that sector can benefit. Nonetheless, Hon. Oguzu Lee challenged us. We usually put the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development on pressure claiming they have not given certain sectors money. Can we also come up with proposals on revenue generation? Saying, “give this project money” is very easy, but what do you want Mzee Kasaija to give out? If we are to continue sharing poverty, then, we shall continue having very many issues. Therefore, let us be honest in our discussions; look at the state of our economy and how we can improve revenue generation so that we can have a much more constructive debate, when we come to the National Budget Framework Paper. I adjourn the House to tomorrow at 2.00 p.m. (The House rose at 7.11 p.m. and adjourned until Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 2.00 p.m.)

6740 STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT The worst performing entities in this regard in terms of absorption capacity were Hoima City at 30 per cent, Kitgum Municipal Council at 36 per cent, Gulu City at 36 per cent and Masaka City at 37 per cent while those that absorbed 100 per cent of their releases were Arua City, Kitagwenda District Local Government, Terego District Local Government and Madi- Okollo District Local Government. (i) Cost of service in local governments The Auditor-General’s report highlighted the amount of resources spent on non-core service delivery activities such as employee costs and transfers to other units like subcounties, schools and health facilities. These amounted to Shs 1,101.75 billion, equivalent to 74 per cent of the expenditure made by the entities. In other words, on average, the Government spent three shillings on each shilling for outputs that directly affect service delivery. The entities with the highest cost of administration of over six and above, include Masaka at eight, Nakasongola at seven, Gulu City at seven, Bundibugyo at six, Mbale City at six, Kiboga at six, Mpigi at six and Arua City at six, while the most efficient local government was Kalangala and Obongi District Local Governments at 0.4 per shilling for output service delivery. (ii) Local revenue performance of Financial Year 2020/2021 The audit reports for the 60 entities reported on indicated that some local governments’ local revenue was not reported on, well aware that this is a core source of revenue for the functioning of the district councils. This denied the councils facilitation to supervise and monitor the works of local governments. These local governments included Mitooma District, Nakasongola District, Kyankwanzi District and Lamwo District. Mr Speaker, details of these are provided in Annex one. Overall, the local governments underperformed on local revenue, registering revenue underperformance of Shs 30.4 billion of the target of Shs 68.248 billion, translating into local revenue performance of only 56 per cent. The local governments that performed dismally were Kole District, Soroti City, Zombo District, Kitgum Municipal Council and Moroto District Local Government. (iv) The performance of salaries, gratuity and pensions The report of the Auditor-General highlights the planned salaries, gratuity and pensions by the entities for the financial year. The reports overall indicated that Shs 632.75 billion was approved for salaries, gratuities and pensions at the close of the financial year. And at the close of the financial year, Shs 610.543 billion was availed to pay salaries, gratuities and pensions. However, only Shs 571.3 billion was actually absorbed by the entities, causing a return of Shs 38.6 billion to the Treasury, indicating underperformance of 6.3 per cent in the budget item. Mr Speaker, the committee made observations and request Members to look through those observations. I will take you directly to recommendations: The committee recommends that – i. The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development accounts for the under-release for funds to the local governments. ii. Accounting officers under whose supervision local governments fail to utilise funds released to them be held personally liable. iii. entities whose cost of administration was above six times the cost of output service delivery be subjected to further investigations to ascertain the source of the abnormality in the operation cost of the local government.

Thank you, honourable minister. You have seen that you still have very many issues. The Speaker also directed you to bring a response to the issues raised by the Shadow Minister of Energy and Mineral Development on power outages. I will give you space on Thursday. You were directed to bring it this week. So, I will give you space on Thursday and I hope you will be ready. (Applause) It is on the issue of the national outages that we continue getting – and a permanent solution. Secondly, I saw the report you gave in relation to what the Leader of the Opposition said – on the areas that are going to benefit from the loan. It is not helpful at all. When you list that Mukono will get this much, Mitooma this much, Obongi this much: how will I know whether my constituency is in or not? We need details. (Applause) The project must have gone into detailed designs and, you know, which village, parish and subcounty - those are the details we need. The list you gave is not helpful at all. (Applause) So, if you need more time, we can give you more time, but you give us a detailed list, which Members can respond to. Finally, this is a word of caution, generally. Honourable minister, I think you see why Members are raising very many issues with your sector: it is to do with service delivery. There is a general belief among Members that even if we had issues of service delivery, they were worsened by the merger of the Rural Electrification Agency with the ministry. (Applause) Now, again, you are proposing to merge the whole energy sector into one entity. I wish you success, honourable minister, in regard to that. (Laughter)

6348 In northern Uganda, we have Abim, Adjumani, Agago, Alebtong, Amolatar, Amudat, Amuru, Apac, Omoro, Arua, Dokolo, Gulu, Kaabong, Kitgum, Koboko, Kole, Kotido, Lamwo, Lira, Maracha, Moroto, Moyo, Nakapiripirit, Napak, Nebbi, Nwoya, Otuke, Oyam, Pader, Pakwach, Yumbe, Zombo, Obongi, Terego, Karenga, Kwania, Madi-Okollo, Nabilatuk, and Obongi. In Western Uganda, we have Buhweju, Buliisa, Bundibugyo, Bunyangabu, Bushenyi, Hoima, Ibanda, Isingiro, Ntungamo, Kabarole, Kagadi, Kakumiro, Kamwenge, Kanungu, Kasese, Kibale, Kiruhura, Kiryandongo, Kisoro, Kyegegwa, Kyenjojo, Masindi, Mbarara, Mitooma, Ntoroko, Rubanda, Rubirizi, Rukiga, Rukungiri, Sheema, Kikuube, Kazo and Rwampara. Madam Speaker, those are the areas that will be covered by the project.

6211 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2022 teacher and staff recruited by the Government to run the school. The second one is: aware that Government policy does not support boarding seed secondary schools, is there any special way Nekemia Memorial Seed Secondary School in Buuvu, Kalangala District can be opened as a boarding seed secondary school, since it is meant to serve primary schools in Kachanga, Luramba, Kotobo and Bufumira, which are all in different islands. Madam Speaker, my response is, the Education Service Commission has finalised the recruitment of 4,805 teaching and support staff for seed secondary schools. Among these are 126 head teachers and 156 deputy head teachers. The ministry has already issued appointment letters awaiting posting instructions and deployment to the various seed secondary schools, including Nekemiah. It is true that the current scope of seed secondary schools do not have boarding facilities. This is in line with the USE School Policy. However, the ministry and Government have noted the need to have exceptions for districts located in Karamoja and the islands, where operation of day schools is very challenging. Assessment is on-going by the ministry engineers to ascertain that the cost needed to provide the above facilities are budgeted for in the medium term. Question No.7 came from Hon. Naome Kabasharira, Member of Parliament, Rushenyi County in Ntungamo District. Madam Speaker, the Member says that there is a constant outcry by truck drivers plying the Kampala-Masaka- Mbarara route over the mismanagement of the Lukaya and Mbarara weighbridges and alleged misconduct of the officers in charge. Truck drivers complain of harassment and extortion by some officers in those respective weighbridge stations. This unprofessional conduct of business by the officers manning those stations may cause financial loss to the Government as the money extorted from the drivers does not reach public coffers. Her prayers are that: 1. The relevant agencies streamline the operations of the weigh bridges across the country. 2. An investigation should be conducted on the two weighbridges to establish the extent of the problem and the errant officers be prosecuted. Madam Speaker, Mbarara and Lukaya fixed weighbridges are located along the Masaka- Mbarara Road and are used to regulate the overloading of trucks for purposes of protecting the road infrastructure from premature damage. The two weighbridges are managed by the Ministry of Works and Transport through the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA). The Government is in advanced stages of installing the first phase of a high speed weigh- in motion system at Mbarara, Magamaga and Luweero. The high speed weigh-in motion systems for other weighbridges including Lukaya will be installed in the subsequent phases. These systems will allow compliant transporters to move on the road without having to stop on the weighbridge. Data centralisation has been done for Mbarara, Lukaya, Luweero, Magamaga, Mubende and Mbale weighbridges. This increases visibility of weighing operations at each weigh station for monitoring purposes. Madam Speaker, I would like to inform this House that the matter reported by the honourable member in Rushenyi is being followed and those officers will be brought to book. Question number eight: Hon. Naboth Namanya, Member of Parliament of Rubabo in Rukungiri District says that Kahengye Water Project commenced in 2015 with a projection to provide a lasting solution to water shortages in the constituencies of Rubabo, Rujumbura, Rukungiri Municipality and the neighbouring areas of Mitooma District.

Thank you. Honourable colleague, we do not have a Post Bank branch in Bushenyi and Mitooma. If you are getting their services, we are not. Secondly, Government has many interventions scattered in different banks. There is a facility under Bank of Uganda – you can go to UDB, Centenary - they are scattered. And what the honourable colleague is saying is that they could be consolidated under one bank instead of them being scattered. This would be a Government bank to focus on agriculture only. (Applause) Above all, this is not a directive to Government; it is a proposal for Government to go and look at. Therefore, Government will still have leverage on seeing how best it can implement this resolution, in case it is adopted. So, honourable member, I think we are proceeding well.

5904 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT and women who were closed at the border while transporting their goods to Rwanda and the DRC. I did not see in the report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the men and women - actually, some of them came from your district Mitooma, Mr Speaker. They were exporting agricultural products and building materials, but I have not seen the fate of our businessmen and women. Therefore, can the committee responsible for foreign affairs and tourism, trade and industry come up with a report, indicating the businessmen and women who lost a lot of money at the border? We were promised that the border would be opened and these people remained there for some good time. We need to cater for these businessmen and women who are now battling with loans in the banks. In fact, they are selling off their properties. Thank you.

I am now a grown-up. I am not like those days when I was very - that one. (Laughter) Mr Speaker, I get scared when I hear the issue of the Ebola outbreak. The first outbreak that I saw in Gulu District was right behind our house where we were staying. People died. It was terrible. That outbreak claimed the life of Dr Lukwiya. The minister made a statement but I am more interested in the need to cause awareness in the community more, the need to protect these health workers at the hospitals and also the need to control the border points. Mr Speaker, you are not safe from Mitooma; Ebola spreads like wildfire. I, therefore, appeal to this House that the minister be given another time to give us a comprehensive report on how prepared we are in the event that the outbreak spreads across the country because this is worse than the COVID-19. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am in possession of a copy of a document entitled, “List of shortlisted applicants for the position of probation police constables, general duties and drivers.” Mr Speaker, my concern on this list is the variance in the number of applicants per district. There are districts, for example, Obongi with two applicants shortlisted; Maracha with four; Madi-Okollo with three; your own district Mitooma with only three; Gulu City with 33 applicants shortlisted; and Kiboga has only two.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. The committee conducted field activities in the following districts: Pader, Agago, Alebtong, Kole, Napak, Ngora, Kaliro, Sheema, Buhweju, Mitooma, Bushenyi and Ibanda - that is on page 5. We are going to the findings, observations and recommendations. These are the areas that we were looking at during our visit to those districts. However, before we went to those districts, we had a meeting with the Minister of State for Education and the management of Higher Education Students Financing Board. At a later stage, I will also come with that report and read it as it is included in this report. Therefore, I would like this House to know what we did and the observations we made. So, the following key findings, observations and recommendations have been identified for immediate action for various programmes under affirmative actions and other equalisation programmes to be implemented in the short to medium terms. Mr Speaker, the status of equal opportunities in the education sector; and the attainment of equality and inclusivity in development, is significantly predicated on the state of wellbeing, skills and competitiveness of the various categories of individuals and groups in society, as cited with the Sustainable Development Goal for quality education. While, wellbeing is dependent on the quality of healthcare services. Considering that Government of Uganda has over the past decades made significant gains in education through, inter alia, universalising primary and secondary education, according to the recently released results, the performance of Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) in northern Uganda and northern subregions, for instance, is below the national average. Therefore, the committee noted the average distance travelled by students or pupils to reach their respective schools; majority of the districts visited reported that students cover a distance of more than five kilometres. And, learners complained about long distance travel from home to school. They reported that this was associated with the challenges of rape, late reporting to school, early departure and inability to complete school homework due to fatigue or late arrival at school. Therefore, regarding access to the school environment, especially for visually impaired learners, members observed that most of them could not easily reach school since they lacked landmarks. While, wheelchair users also find it very difficult to access educational facilities in these districts. Mr Speaker, the distance to the nearest facility influences access to education services. The Ministry of Education and Sports standard is that every parish should have a primary school; and there should be a secondary school in every subcounty. So, this policy would make education accessible at that level. The committee findings also revealed that, secondary and tertiary institutions were far and inadequate in many parts of the sampled areas. This made it very hard for most of the children from hard-to-reach areas to progress to secondary level. Other children keep repeating primary seven because of no access to secondary education. Sustainable Development Goals will be evaluated in the next nine years, yet districts are performing badly with only one secondary school in each district. Teenage pregnancy has also increased due to the lockdown. The committee further observed that the cost of education services is a determinant in access to education, and many people pay highly for education in private schools. And, those who did not pay any money to schools meet the cost of scholastic materials, between Shs100 to Shs150, which is very costly for the rural people. However, in private schools, especially in urban areas, the cost is much higher compared to Government-aided education facilities. The committee also observed that the dropout rate is very high. For instance, in Napak District it is at 84 percent. The committee visited special

4986 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION the challenge has been even the amount we are giving these people. We are not giving them enough money – we are just giving them peanuts. What is painful is that you find a student of, for example, Kitende, a student of Namagunga or Kisubi is on Government sponsorship. The fees they pay per term is higher than the money they pay at Makerere University. Whom does Government sponsorship benefit? Honourable minister, this is something you need to look at thoroughly. We could put that money under the district quota system, so that these poor districts benefit from the loan scheme. You can share. (Applause) Hon. Sarah has reminded me that it is part of what she presented. I have been a member of the Makerere University Council. When you admit, you are admitting children of the rich. Then you can get another mechanism of - why should Tayebwa’s child go on Government sponsorship? For God’s sake why? That is being really - Well, some people can say he is bright. To me, the issue of being bright should be determined on courses. Also, on some of these courses, you need to do affirmative action. How come in Parliament you did affirmative action and the child who studied in Mitooma, from Primary One up to a higher level, is a Deputy Speaker? Didn’t you appreciate me? (Laughter) If you give us a chance, we can survive and reach here, but if you keep suffocating these young children, it is going to be a problem. Hon. Sarah has reminded me of the anticipation rule - Rule 80 applies to me because there is a motion, but it is something you need to look at thoroughly. (Interjections) Honourable colleagues, I am going to give you your time. There are Members who have been here since we started and have not spoken. If you know you already have already spoken, please, sit down. I know this is a different matter, but first sit down.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I would also like to thank the committee for the good job done. However, I would like to be educated on what equal op- portunities means. Do I understand it or it has lost either meaning? I do not know. I need to be educated on what it means. In Ntungamo, we are around 570. When you go to Mitooma District, I think the population is around 190 or 200. When you use the quota system, Mitooma and Ntungamo districts will both get 80. So, how shall we measure that equal opportunity? That is why I asked what it means. Even for local governments, still, Mitooma will be given machines for working on the roads - Mr Speaker, you are crying about the roads in Mitooma; I wish you could visit Ntungamo. This will serve the same one unit as Mitooma, [The Deputy Speaker] STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT