Moroto District

Mr Speaker, the Government moved ahead of this motion and already, something is being done. We already supported the people of Kaabong, Kotido and some parts of Moroto, especially areas that are famine-stricken. My office -

371 THE TWELFTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 15 JULY 2026 monumental achievement as the Speaker of the 12 th Parliament. Mr Speaker, allow me also to join the rest of my colleagues who have supported the motion presented by the Rt Hon. Prime Minister, thanking the President for the precise and inspirational State-of-the-Nation Address. The President spoke about several things, and key to me is the issue of infrastructural development. On this note, I cannot leave out the issue of Moroto Road that we have spoken about over and over again. I want to thank the Government for the road being at the design stage; NDP IV has it in place. However, I implore the Government to now actually go and probably get a loan to have this road built. This is a security road that has been there since 1962, during the colonial era. This road cuts across more than ten districts: five in the Acholi Subregion and others in the Karamoja Subregion. It is a security road. It is a mineral road, and it is a tourism road that takes us to Kidepo National Park. However, for years, it has been ignored. Mr Speaker, yes, we have made some progress, but we need to tarmac this road. At this time, when we, the Acholi Subregion, are experiencing poverty and famine, I think this could actually bring in some revenue by opening markets and other opportunities. As I said, it is a security road. The other issue is cattle theft. We are restocking; we are talking about the Acholi war debt claim, but we fear that without this security road, we are going to have a problem with protecting the little that is being done as an affirmative action. Mr Speaker, these are the things that I wanted to pick out. I want to, once again, thank the President for that precise and inspirational address to the nation. Thank you.

321 THE TWELFTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA TUESDAY,14 JULY 2026 with a number of people in the cattle corridor, transforming not only the cattle corridor, but the rest of the country today. He gave an example of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Uganda of US$ 3.6 billion in 1986. Today, we are at US$ 69 billion, going to US$ 500 billion. He gave the example of life expectancy rising from 43 years to now 68 years and infant mortality reducing from 122 to 36. He mentioned that poverty had reduced from 56 per cent to almost 16 per cent. Honourable colleagues, in terms of tracing the history of NRM and the work of President Museveni, we must applaud him for the dedication to this country – (Applause) - bringing us from a state of hopelessness to hopefulness. However, the historical mission of NRM in Karamoja is not yet done. As we talk, the vulnerabilities to weather are still persistent. We appeal to this House and country that Karamoja is now in a state of dire need of food. More than 900,000 people are affected. People are starting to die in Kotido, Kaabong and some parts of Moroto because of bad weather, which is actually affecting the whole country. In Karamoja, without a cow - and most people lost animals to insecurity. There is a dire need to refocus the mission of NRM in Karamoja to equalise this country. We were talking about education and equity here, but there is still more to be done in Karamoja. In terms of monetary poverty, Karamoja stands at 74 per cent. In terms of multidimensional poverty, Karamoja stands at 56 per cent. We are the best in all bad indicators - infant mortality, life expectancy; all of these. We need to focus and find a better strategy to address the challenges that face that part of the country. Karamoja constitutes 10 per cent of this country, and it is now starting to deliver to the rest of the country in terms of minerals. We already have four new cement factories helping us. We have now got a clinker factory, so we do not have to import. We have marble; we are getting materials for tiles. Therefore, let us support Karamoja so that it can support this country. (Applause) My appeal to the Government and to this country is, let us re-focus on the historical mission of NRM under – (Member timed out.)

Mr Speaker, the extension would have financial implications. Secondly, maybe to combine this issue with the question someone asked earlier about civic education. The Electoral Commission has been running programmes through radio stations in our areas. We believe the people are aware. In all honesty, I do not think there is a Member of Parliament who needs more than 24 hours to travel from here to his/her place. It is possible that any of us can leave Kampala tomorrow, go to Moroto and register at their place if they think they should register from their constituency.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. We have a major economic road stretching from Gulu City to Moroto Town. It covers over 10 districts. The Government of Uganda has promised to tarmac that road. The community would like to know when the work will commence.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Moroto Regional Referral Hospital serves all the neighbouring districts close to Karamoja sub-region. Currently, they are faced with the challenge of oxygen yet the UPDF Engineering Brigade, three years ago, was contracted to construct an oxygen plant. They abandoned it right at the tail end when about to hand it over to the hospital. My kind request to the Prime Minister is to request the UPDF to come and at least

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. About the seed schools the Member has talked about, that is Moroto and Alebtong Seed Schools, I will make a follow- up on them. Thank you.

142 THE BUDGET SPEECH, 2026 Ugandan products, attract strategic investors and mobilise the diaspora to support national development. 6. On tourism infrastructure, the Government continued to invest in tourism infrastructure and attractions. Progress was made in the development of museums and cultural heritage sites in Moroto and Dokolo. Investments are also underway in the Rwenzori Central Circuit Trail, Kitagata Hot Springs and visitor facilities at the Source of the Nile in Jinja, including an observatory deck and a modern restaurant. The Government also established a new wildlife education centre in Mbale. These investments are enhancing visitor experiences and strengthening Uganda’s competitiveness as a tourism destination. In Financial Year 2026/2027, the priorities under tourism are the following: Mr Speaker, the Government has allocated Shs 567.32 billion to continue developing the tourism sector next financial year. The priority interventions will include: i) The branding and marketing of Uganda as a tourism and investment destination; ii) Tourism infrastructure development; iii) Construction of highway sanitation facilities and tourism site refreshment centres; iv) Improving and enforcing hospitality standards and training; v) Conservation and wildlife protection to increase wildlife population across the national parks; vi) Health tourism; and vii) Economic and commercial diplomacy. I now come to mineral-based industrial development. Mr Speaker, Uganda is richly endowed with minerals. However, sustainable transformation will come not from extracting minerals, but from processing and adding value to them. The Government’s strategy is, therefore, to transform mineral wealth into industrial wealth, and the following steps have been taken in that direction: i) The Government intensified mineral exploration and quantification. Geochemical surveys for gold were undertaken in Kassanda, Kiboga and Mubende districts. Exploration confirmed an estimated 300 million tonnes of iron ore in Kabale, Rubanda, Rukiga, Kisoro, Kanungu, Kiruhura and Hoima districts. Surveys of copper prospects were conducted at the Bukusu Carbonatite Complex, which also has the potential for rare earth elements as well as at the Boma and Lwensankala sites. Evaluation of uranium, manganese, lithium and nickel deposits is also ongoing across the country. ii) To add value to Uganda’s limestone, a new clinker factory was commissioned in Moroto District to produce inputs for cement production. The factory operates a 6,000-tonne-per-day clinker production line with annual production capacity of two million tonnes of clinker and three million tonnes of cement. The project is expected to save the country up to $260 million, annually, in clinker imports and create up to 4,000 jobs. iii) The Government continued to make substantial progress towards the first oil. Construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) and the Central Processing Facilities is at advanced stage and nearing completion. The Tilenga and Kingfisher upstream development projects also registered significant progress despite logistical challenges arising from the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. During the year, 51 additional wells were drilled, bringing the cumulative number to 199 wells, exceeding the 189 wells required for first oil production later this year. iv) The Government completed the first phase of Kabalega International Airport, providing critical logistics infrastructure to support oil and gas development, tourism, trade and investment in the Albertine region.

9 THE TWELFTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2026 56. Kirungi Annet Pamela Woman Representative Kabarole NRM 57. Kyogabiirwe Jackie Muganda Woman Representative Kyegegwa NRM 58. Lanyero Christine Awany Woman Representative Nwoya NRM 59. Logose Sarah Annet Woman Representative Butaleja NRM 60. Lokii John Baptist (Dr) Matheniko County Moroto NRM 61. Lokoru Albert Tepeth County Moroto Independent 62. Lokoru Stephenson Yoyo Chekwii East County Nakapiripirit NRM 63. Longoli Simon Peter Chekwii County (Kadam) Nakapiripirit NRM 64. Lubega George Willy Bugangaizi South County Kakumiro NRM 65. Lubowa Ssebina Gyaviira Nyendo-Mukungwe County Masaka City NUP 66. Lugoloobi Amos Ntenjeru County North Kayunga NRM 67. Kiwanuka Sulaiman Nakifuma County Mukono NUP 68. Kuteesa Mary Kamuli Mwenge County South Kyenjojo NRM 69. Kyeyune Ivan Nakasongola County Nakasongola NUP 70. Lakisa Mercy Faith Woman Representative Alebtong NRM 71. Lenia Charity Kevin Vurra County Arua NRM 72. Mutebi Benard Mugoya Bulamogi County Kaliro Independent 73. Katooko Sylivia Damba Woman Representative Kibuku NRM 74. Kayogera Yona Busiki North County Namutumba Independent 75. Kiti Peter T’oo County Bukwo NRM 76. Lolem Micah Akasile Upe County Amudat NRM 77. Locap Peterkhen Bokora East County Napak NRM 78. Linda Irene City Woman Representative Fort Portal City NRM 79. Lokubal Emma Woman Representative Nabilatuk NRM 80. Katusiime Adrine Woman Representative Sheema NRM 81. Loluk Fidelis Logwee Napore West County Karenga Independent 82. Komakech Christopher Aruu County Pader NRM 83. Muzaid Khemis Arua Central Division Arua City FDC 84. Lamwaka Catherine Woman Representative Omoro NRM 85. Kiwanuka Abdallah Mukono County North Mukono NUP 86. Kyeyune Haruna Kasolo Kyotera County Kyotera NRM (The House was suspended at 11.42 a.m.) (On resumption at 1.00 p.m., the Deputy Clerk, Parliamentary Affairs presiding.) 87. Lokwang Hillary Ik County Kaabong NRM 88. Lowila CD Oketayot Woman Representative Pader NRM 89. Lugoloobi Willy Bageyente Bujumba County Kalangala NRM 90. Lugwar Benson Agogo North County Agago Independent 91. Lukyamuzi David Kalwanga Busujju County Mityana NUP 92. Kiwanuka Keefa Kiboga East County Kiboga NRM 93. Maala Zahrah Luyirika Makindye Division West Kampala NUP 94. Makumbi Henry Kamya Mityana County South Mityana NRM 95. Mariam Seif Woman Representative Iganga NRM 96. Mafabi Asha Nabulo Woman Representative Sironko NRM 97. Mamawi James Adjumani East County Adjumani Independent 98. Masaba Karim Industrial Division Mbale City Independent 99. Matembu Chriss Wataka Bubulo County West Manafwa Independent 100. Matovu Emmanuel Magoola Busiro County East Wakiso Independent 101. Mawanda Micheal Maranga Igara County East Bushenyi NRM

2 ADMINISTRATION OF OATHS 6. Abeja Susan Jolly District Woman Representative Otuke NRM 7. Abigaba Cuthbert Mirembe Kibale County Kamwenge NRM 8. Acamfua Topista District Woman Representative Zombo Independent 9. Acan Joyce Okeny PWD Representative N/A NRM 10. Achayo Juliet Lodou Ngora County Ngora NRM 11. Achia Lokiru Gabriel Jie County Kotido NRM 12. Achola Catherine District Woman Representative Pallisa NRM 13. Aber Lillian District Woman Representative Kitgum NRM 14. Acom Alobo Joan City Woman Representative Soroti FDC 15. Aayoo Joyce Makamoe District Woman Representative Abim Independent 16. Acon Julius Bua Otuke East County Otuke NRM 17. Adeke Anna Ebaju District Woman Representative Soroti FDC 18. Adidwa Abdu Bukooli South County Namayingo Independent 19. Agaba Gilbert Workers Representative N/A Independent 20. Agaba Peter Ibanda Municipality Ibanda NRM 21. Ahebwa Wilber Manyisa Nakaseke North County Nakaseke NRM 22. Akello Beatrice Akori District Woman Representative Agago NRM 23. Aine Godfrey Kaguta Mawogola North County Ssembabule NRM 24. Akello Lucy District Woman Representative Amuru FDC 25. Akello Rose Lilly District Woman Representative Karenga NRM 26. Akol Anthony Kilak North County Amuru NRM 27. Akorikin Francis Kapelebyong County Kapelebyon NRM 28. Aguti Sarah District Woman Representative Dokolo UPC 29. Akugizibwe Aled Ronald Buruli County Masindi NRM 30. Akumu Catherine Mavenjina Older Persons Representative Northern NRM 31. Alenyo Marshall Godfrey Jonam County Pakwach Independent 32. Alioni Yorke Odria Aringa South County Yumbe NRM 33. Among Anita Annet District Woman Representative Bukedea NRM 34. Magogo Moses Hassim Budiope East County Buyende NRM 35. Opolot Isiagi Patrick Kachumbala County Bukedea NRM 36. Okwere David Beecham Bukedea County Bukedea NRM 37. Namulondo Sarah District Woman Representative Buyende NRM 38. Pedun Josephine District Woman Representative Ngora NRM 39. Aeku Patrick Soroti County Soroti NRM 40. Alyela Denis Omodi Lira East Division Lira City NRM 41. Akifeza Grace Ngabirano District Woman Representative Kisoro NRM 42. Akugizibwe Lawrence Mwenge County North Kyenjojo NRM 43. Amanya Cohen Kyampene Igara County West Bushenyi NRM 44. Achia Cathy District Woman Representative Kaabong NRM 45. Acom Esther District Woman Representative Serere Independent 46. Amaniyo Draville Sheilah District Woman Representative Mukono NUP 47. Aceng Jane Ruth District Woman Representative Lira City NRM 48. Ajilo Maria Gorretti Elogu District Woman Representative Kalaki NRM 49. Adome Francis Lorika Moroto Municipality Moroto NRM 50. Ameede Agnes District Woman Representative Butebo NRM 51. Amongin Jane Frances Okili District Woman Representative Kaberamaido NRM 52. Angura Fredrick Tororo South County Tororo NRM 53. Angwech Colline Kioga County Amolatar UPC 54. Anifa Bangirana Mawogola West County Ssembabule NRM 55. Anyakun Esther Davinia District Woman Representative Nakapiripirit NRM 56. Acheng Sandra District Woman Representative Kole 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

18875 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2026 Vote 015 - Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, Shs 37.90 billion for capitalisation of Uganda Development Corporation as an additional investment in Atiak Sugar Factory. The second category is self-financing and budget-neutral supplementary requests over and above the 3 per cent legal limit, which require prior approval by Cabinet and Parliament. Of a total of Shs 586.16 billion for Supplementary Expenditure Schedule No.5, which is above the 3 per cent legal limit. A total of Shs 123.03 billion is self-financed and thus budget-neutral. The self-financing/budget- neutral supplementary includes the following: Reallocation of Shs 40.21 billion to cater for additional wages for recruitment of health workers under 19 referral hospitals. Honourable colleagues, there is a need to allocate the wage of Shs 40.21 billion currently budgeted for under the Ministry of Health to 19 referral hospitals. This is required to cater for the recruitment and absorption of critical health workers who were previously supporting these hospitals before the suspension of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding for essential health services. The beneficiary referral hospitals are the following; i. Butabika Hospital, Arua Hospital, Fort Portal Hospital, Gulu Hospital, Hoima Hospital, Jinja Hospital, Kabale Hospital, Masaka Hospital, Mbale Hospital, Soroti Hospital, Lira Hospital, Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, Moroto Regional Referral Hospital, Naguru National Referral Hospital, Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital, Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital, Kayunga Referral Hospital, and Yumbe Referral Hospital; ii. Shs 9.92 billion for various local governments, which are also detailed in Annex I; iii. Shs 1.44 billion as unspent balances under the Uganda Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer Programme (UgIFT), which were returned to the Uganda Consolidated Fund at the end of the Financial Year 2024/2025. This funding is required to enable the local governments to meet their outstanding contractual obligations under the programme for this year; iv. Shs 2.22 billion for the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) project as unspent balances that were returned to the Uganda Consolidated Fund at the end of the Financial Year 2024/2025. This funding is required to enable the local governments to meet their contractual obligations and avoid - (Interruption)

18647 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 16 APRIL 2026 Luwero, Nakasongola as well as water supply schemes in districts such as Terego, Moyo, Lamwo, Zombo, Agago, Pader, Namutumba, Mayuge, Ssembabule, Mityana, Isingiro, Kazo, Kyenjojo, Bukedea, Kanungu, Moroto, Kakumiro and Abim, among others. Colleagues, I can see that some of you are trying to keep pace. I jumped into the executive summary, which is on page, Page 3. However, the committee also notes material implementation constraints, particularly funding gaps, delayed counterpart funding, stalled contractor obligations, weak operation and maintenance financing, land acquisition delays, environmental compliance burdens, and institutional capacity limitations, which, if not addressed, will undermine the political credibility of the budget. Madam Speaker, the context of this report is that sectors and Votes under the committee’s purview are central to the Government’s broader economic growth for various reasons. First, energy powers production and industry, while the extractives are expected to create fiscal space and employment. On the other hand, water supports life and production, while environmental management protects the natural resource base on which the growth ultimately depends. The committee notes that the significance of these Votes is not abstract. In many constituencies, the Government is judged by whether power reaches the households, trading centres and industrial parks; whether piped water reaches institutions, towns and villages; whether boreholes and small schemes remain functional; whether the first oil is obtained and is properly regulated; and whether wetlands, forests and the fragile landscapes are actually protected for the benefit of all. This means that the budget scrutiny in these sectors must go beyond the aggregate figures and focus squarely on whether planned projects are financed, implemented, and sustained in actual locations where Ugandans live and work. Madam Speaker, I will go straight to Item 7.0: Programme budget allocations for Financial Year 2026/2027. Analysis of Vote 017 Vote 017: Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development contributes to the sustainable energy development programme and a sustainable extractives industry development programme of the National Development Plan IV (NDPIV), with policy priorities covering electricity generation, transmission, distribution, clean cooking, petroleum infrastructure, minerals development, geothermal development, and strategic industrial energy investments. Madam Speaker, the committee notes, from the updated submissions of the budget estimates, that the total budget allocation for vote 017 rises from Shs 1.844 billion, in the Financial Year 2025/2026, to Shs 2.282 billion, in Financial Year 2026/2027, representing an increase of Shs 438.11 billion. Table two thereby gives you, colleagues , an overview of how these resources have been allocated. The committee further notes that the ministry’s functional allocation reflects a major emphasis on transmission, distribution, petroleum, and administration-related land acquisition and institutional costs, alongside continued support to generation, minerals, and clean cooking. Colleagues, table 4 gives us an allocation of resources by major functional areas. Madam Speaker, the committee notes that the ministry has identified substantial project outlay for Financial Year 2026/2027, and the medium term, and many of these projects are location-specific and visible. Colleagues, the major planned projects under Vote 017 represent the following, which I believe is a point of critical concern to most of us here. There is a project of Mutundwe-Buloba- Kabulasoke-Masaka and Kabulasoke-Nkonge-

18652 CONSIDERATION OF THE BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR FY 2026/2027 The gravity-piped water schemes are intended for Mbunga-Nyakazinga and Bughema in Kasese, and Mpunga in Kanungu. The climate-span smart wash clusters for Rwere in Kateretere, Bugarama-Karweru and Kagarama-Bushura-Kibuzigye in Rubanda, Kabale and Kisoro areas. Karamoja region schemes Under the institutional water schemes, Nadunget SS in Moroto, Amita Prisons in Abim. Public sanitation facilities There shall be two institutions in Karenga and one in Ngora. Additional water schemes in Kalapata, Lorengedwat, Tokora, Kathile listed under the broader solar and service expansion. The committee notes that the ministry’s water for production portfolio is particularly important in the drought-prone and livestock- dependent areas for expanding irrigation agriculture. Colleagues, we have selected water for production projects, which you will all see. I want to allow you to see them by yourselves. Under table 16, in Isingiro, Kanungu, and then those in Karamoja. Another area that will be covered is Agule in Kalaki, Soroti District, Bulusambu in Mbale, Biduku in Nakaseke, Kiryandongo, Masaka, Oyam, Gulu, Nwoya, among others. There will be solar-powered irrigation water systems also cited in the numerous areas across Central, Eastern, Northern, Karamoja, and Southwestern regions. Colleagues, the other aspects are those that I believe we will go through. I just would like to invite you to the aspect of the unfunded priority under Vote 019. Madam Speaker, the committee notes that under the project 2041- this is 7.6 colleagues: 100 per cent Service Coverage Acceleration project, (SCAP 100, Umbrellas Phase II), the Ministry of Water and Environment has identified critical financing gaps for targeted investments in water pipeline extensions, power extensions to pump stations, off-grid solar installations, and pump stations and drilling of production wells in small towns, rural growth centers, and the six umbrella and water and sanitation projects countrywide. Colleagues, in totality, the SCAP 100 project was in response to His Excellency, the President’s promise that every village in Uganda should have at least one clean water source. So, SCAP 100 was intended to ensure that water sources are placed in districts and in administrative units such as sub-counties, so as to distribute water using piped water systems. So SCAP 100 is crucial because it responds to the Government’s undertaking to the citizens. Here, the committee identified a funding gap of Shs 35.85 billion for Financial Year 26/27, which would support the undertaking of rehabilitation of water supply and sanitation skip schemes, as well as extend 5,000 kilometers of pipeline water to provide for 5,000 new water connections in the various communities of the country. The committee further notes an unfunded requirement under the water and sanitation development facilities that are responsible for the design, construction, and setting up of infrastructure for rural water supply. Colleagues, the unfunded priorities under Vote 019 are provided for under table 18. Madam Speaker, permit me to conclude with National Water and Sewerage Corporation. National Water and Sewerage Corporation remains central to urban water service delivery and to several other sectors, most visible investments in towns and municipalities. The committee notes that National Water and Sewerage Corporation medium-term financial and investment plan covers five projects currently supported by government

18708 CONSIDERATION OF THE BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR FY 2026/2027 Flats, and Shs 7.55 billion towards outsourcing cleaning and security guard services. Kyambogo University On Kyambogo University, the committee recommends that the Uganda Land Commission and the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development undertake a comprehensive land audit to resolve overlapping tenure conflicts. Two, the committee also urges the finance ministry to allocate Shs 28.58 billion in a phased manner for the recruitment of academic staff in the medium term to bring the staffing level to at least 50 percent. Gulu University The committee recommends that the finance ministry allocates an additional Shs 2.902 billion to cover shortfalls arising from salary harmonisation, Shs 18.643 billion in the mid-term to increase the university’s staffing level to at least 50 per cent. Secondly, that the finance ministry allocates Shs 28.41 billion for the completion of the construction of Gulu Constituent College in Moroto, and Shs 12.815 billion to complete the construction of the Business and Development Centre. Muni University For Muni University, Madam Speaker, we recommend that the Finance Ministry allocates Shs 14.698 billion towards the completion of the various construction projects which have stalled at the university, and Shs 15.302 billion towards kick-starting the construction of the teaching hospital. Mbarara University of Science and Technology The committee recommends that the Finance Ministry allocates an additional Shs 35.43 billion towards the recruitment of staff in the medium term to increase the staffing level to at least 50 per cent. Shs 0.491 for salary scale harmonisation for non-teaching staff. The Finance Ministry is also urged to additionally give Shs 2.8 billion towards retooling of labs and workshops, with specialised machinery and equipment for teaching, research, and innovation. Soroti University The committee recommends that the Finance Ministry allocates Shs 5 billion for the procurement of the necessary equipment and machinery for instruction of the three new engineering courses. Lira University The committee recommends as follows: i) That the Finance Ministry provides Shs 5.0 billion to promote additional critical staff, and Shs 1 billion to cover shortfalls; and ii) Shs 1 billion to cover shortfalls within the welfare facilities and NSSF; and Shs 1.5 billion for the research and innovation fund. Vote 307: Kabale University The committee recommends that an additional Shs 3 billion be allocated to the university to support its research agenda for Financial Year 2026/2027. Vote 305: Busitema University The committee recommends that the ministry for finance provides an additional funding of Shs 14.862 billion to increase on its staffing levels from 10 per cent to at least 50 per cent. Shs 5.23 billion for strengthening labs and ICT to provide in the provision of its services in IT. Vote 312: Uganda Management Institute (UMI) The committee recommends that finance allocates an additional Shs 15.2 billion for the construction of a new purpose building at Kampala branch, new classroom office at Mbale branch, and new classroom office block at Mbarara branch.

18349 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 12 MARCH 2026 iv. Vote 116 – National Medical Stores; v. Vote 127 - Uganda Virus Research Institute; vi. Vote 134 – Health Service Commission; vii. Vote 151 – Uganda Blood Transfusion Services; viii. Vote 401 – Mulago Hospital Complex; ix. Vote 402 – Butabika Hospital; x. Vote 403 – Arua Regional Referral Hospital; xi. Vote 404 – Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital; xii. Vote 405 – Gulu Regional Referral Hospital; xiii. Vote 406 – Hoima Regional Referral Hospital; xiv. Vote 407 – Jinja Regional Referral Hospital; xv. Vote 408 – Kabale Regional Referral Hospital; xvi. Vote 409 – Masaka Regional Referral Hospital; xvii. Vote 410 – Mbale Regional Referral Hospital; xviii. Vote 411 – Soroti Regional Referral Hospital; xix. Vote 412 – Lira Regional Referral Hospital; xx. Vote 413 – Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital; xxi. Vote 414 – Mubende Regional Referral Hospital; xxii. Vote 415 – Moroto Regional Referral Hospital; xxiii. Vote 416 – China-Uganda Friendship Referral Hospital, Naguru; xxiv. Vote 417 – Kiruddu Regional Referral Hospital; xxv. Vote 418 – Kawempe Regional Referral Hospital; xxvi. Vote 419 – Entebbe regional far hospital; xxvii. Vote 420 – Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital; xxviii. Vote 421 – Kayunga Regional Referral Hospital; and xxix. Vote 422 – Yumbe Regional Referral Hospital. I beg to lay.

18213 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA TUESDAY, 2 DECEMBER 2025 This schedule was meant for Vote 016: Ministry of Works and Transport, in order to fix various roads. Aware that there were about seven suspended projects amounting to 395 kilometres. Projects such as Moroto- Lokitanyala of about 42 kilometres, Najjanankumbi-Busabala Road, 36.5 kilometres, Mityana-Mubende Road, about 100 kilometres and Kampala-Jinja Expressway of about 72 kilometres had been suspended due to lack of funding. 11 projects were under reduced progress. There was a go-slow coming to around 533 kilometres. They include roads like Olwiyo- Pakwach, Kisubi-Nakawuka and Kasanje- Mpigi - that one, after you approve the money, work will be progressing. About nine bridges projects were affected by the constraint in financing. The likes of Katonga Bridge and Ssezibwa all went at a go- slow. Colleagues, the details of this are attached in annexes 2 and 3. Madam Speaker, I do not know whether it will be important –

Under Annex 1, we summarised the amount of money which is budgeted for DUCAR, KCCA and road maintenance. There are national roads upgrades and rehabilitation. There are also ferry operations of about Shs 12 billion. Therefore, some of the roads like Fort Portal- Bundibugyo-Lamia - we all know that road. There was an estimate of Shs 118 billion. The requirement to do the phase for this year is Shs 50 billion. However, there was nothing provided in the budget. There is also Gulu-Atiak-Nimule Road – it is in bad shape. The other roads are Mubende- Kyenjojo Road and Ntungamo-Rukungiri Road. There is also the completion of the section of Tororo-Busia Road. We also have Najjanankumbi-Busabala Road and Rwenkunye-Apac-Lira-Puranga Road - Hon. Omara, thank you for lobbying. We also have Luweero-Butalangu Road. There is Koboko-Yumbe-Moyo – that road when you leave Koboko via Yumbe headed to Moyo. It is for upgrade. Money is being provided. There are also Yumbe-Ure, Kisubi-Nakawuka, Nakawuka-Maya, Nakawuka-Nateete, Nakawuka-Kasanje-Maya and Nakawuka- Buwaya – all those roads. The money is here. Once we approve, we are in business. There are also critical oil roads like Kabwoya- Buhuka, Kihura-Rwamwanja, Kahunge-Bwizi- Mpara, Namagumba-Budadiri-Nalugugu - these people of Mbale, the road is there to be completed. We have Moroto-Lokitanyala Road, Kira- Matugga Road – Hon. Ssemujju, thank you for lobbying - (Laughter). There is also Kabale- Bunyonyi Road – that is a tourist road, going up to Kisoro-Mahinga. We have Busega-Mpigi Expressway. We need that one badly. There is a road from Muyembe to Nakapiripirit as well as Lusalira-Nkonge- Lumegere-Ssembabule Road. Hon. Kabanda is in business. Thank you for lobbying. Hon. Namugga, the NRM Government does not discriminate. There is also Iganga-Bulopa-Kamuli – you will connect properly. This is for the former Speaker, and the current Speaker has implemented it. Thank you for lobbying. There are also critical roads like Kabale- Kiziranfumbi, Nyairongo-Kyarushesha and Masindi-Biiso. It seems nobody is excited about this one. This is an oil road.

18216 COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHAIR is approved, it goes to fill that hole but the purpose is clear. Thank you. Vote 115: Uganda Heart Institute is being provided with Shs 40 billion in order to carry on the construction of the Heart Institute at Naguru. Vote 116: National Medical Stores (NMS). Aware again that there was a cancellation of money in GAVI, withdrawal of USAID, NMS needed money to support our people - Shs 269.777 billion. Vote 126: National Information Technology Authority - Shs 185.289 billion. Vote 128: Uganda National Examinations Board - Shs 28.5 billion for construction of a digital center. Vote 130: Treasury Operations - Shs 1.85 trillion Honourable colleagues, take note that in the last financial year, there was money which was budgeted for external funding. This external funding did not come in at the right time. Therefore, the Bank of Uganda advanced the Government this amount of money for the expenditures that had been planned. Now, this money arrived after the end of the financial year. So, we need to approve this money so that the Government, through treasury operations, pays the Bank of Uganda in order to remain a credible borrower. Vote 131: Office of the Auditor-General - Shs 5.8 billion for ICT. Vote 137: National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) - Shs 67.753 billion. Vote 145: Uganda Prisons Service - Shs 21.68 billion. Vote 158: Internal Security Organisation - Shs 41.889 billion. Vote 415: Moroto Regional Referral Hospital - Shs 249 million. Vote 530: Consulate in Guangzhou - Shs 14.211 billion for construction of a chancery building. We have various local governments which have money like local revenue, unspent balances from the UgIFT, and reimbursement of VAT for the operations. Various local governments will get Shs 148.239 billion. Madam Speaker, and honourable members, I, therefore, request the House to approve the supplementary expenditure under Schedule No. 1, 2 and 3 for the Financial Year 25/26 amounting to Shs 8,104, 390,000,000. I beg to move.

18220 COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHAIR Supporting the textile sector is important, but not through hurried subsidies, opaque transactions, and a sales arrangement that no one can reasonably verify. If the Government wants a national textile strategy, let it table one. This business of buying T-shirts for tailors using taxpayers’ money is not a strategy; it is a risk and Parliament must not approve it blindly. Agriculture arrears and the geography of favour Madam Speaker, tea seedlings arrears have become a permanent feature of supplementary budgets. Apple seedlings, also supplied on credit, have now joined the queue. This is a system where suppliers deliver for years without a budget and expect Parliament to clear arrears at the end of each financial year. It is not sustainable. Worse still, the same districts benefit repeatedly. Some parts of Western Uganda appear almost every year in the ministry of agriculture submissions. Meanwhile, farmers in Northern Uganda have no tea nurseries, no larger scale seedling support programmes, and no agro-industrial facilities. Equity has become rhetoric rather than practical. Electoral Commission and the mystery of new polling stations The Electoral Commission is seeking more than Shs 460 billion for ballot papers, biometric systems and the creation of new polling stations, yet, they have not provided a list of these new polling stations, nor have they justified the expansion. They also did not present technical documentation for the new biometric system. Election management should not be based on trust. Parliament cannot approve technology we have not seen, or polling stations whose locations are unknown. In an election year, such a process raises serious concerns. Ministry of Works and Transport crisis management The ministry presented a long list of stalled, suspended or slow-moving road projects. These include Moroto - I do not have to read them; the Chairperson read them here. These roads have been under construction for many years and their financing needs were known. Contractors have been waiting for payment and there is nothing sudden about these obligations. They are the result of chronic under planning and poor cash flow management. A supplementary budget cannot clean up years of negligence. Uganda Airlines and the cost of flying without a plan The ministry is requesting for more than Shs 400 billion to purchase new aircraft for Uganda Airlines, yet the country has not recovered from the Bombardier deal where we purchased aircrafts that were already being phased out. Global production slowed, spare parts became scarce and maintenance became a nightmare. The airline has been grounded more than once because mechanics could not source essential components. Madam Speaker, we are now being asked to buy more aircrafts before conducting due diligence on viability, maintenance costs, routes, and long-term sustainability. We are being asked to purchase planes before addressing the problems of the ones we already have. A national airline should be a source of pride, but pride must be backed by planning. Parliament should not approve aircraft purchases that may leave us stuck with obsolete models once again. Before Government buys any new aircraft, a thorough due diligence process must be presented, including maintenance projections and route sustainability. Uganda cannot afford another Bombardier disaster. Even basic legal procedures have not been completed. There must be shareholder resolutions regarding capitalisation, and these must be registered with the Registrar of Companies. We have a report of COSASE which this Parliament approved. That is why I did not include it in the report. In the report of COSASE approved here, COSASE recommended that we should be leasing instead of buying, and Parliament approved. Therefore, it cannot be the same Parliament that approved leasing that [Mr Ssemujju] THE SUPPLEMENTARY EXPENDITURE SCHEDULE NO.1

17908 STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT General reviewed 71 human rights awards, court awards, ex-gratia and compensation ordered by courts and reported that awards worth Shs 1.98 billion remained unpaid for the period ranging from two years to over 10 years. We have these pending and the committee recommends that the accounting officer should budget for the awards, and the Government should provide the requisite funds. The accounting officer, together with the Uganda Human Rights Commission, should establish the details of the beneficiaries for quick settlement to avoid the accumulation of interest. Madam Speaker, whenever we delay payment of these arrears, interest is paid on these arrears. So far, the Government is going to pay Shs 159 billion as interest on these arrears that have not been paid on time. Madam Speaker, the other report is the report of the Committee on Public Accounts (Central Government) on national regional referral hospitals and other specialised hospitals. Honourable colleagues, I am going to summarise. We are looking at the details of the following hospitals in summary. We are looking at the following: Masaka Regional Referral Hospital, Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital, Mbale, Naguru, Jinja, Mubende, Fort Portal, Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, Kabale, Lira, Gulu, Moroto, Hoima, Arua, Butabika, Mulago, Kawempe, Kiruddu, Soroti, and the Mulago Women’s Specialised Hospital. Implementation and budget performance Madam Speaker, for all the regional referral hospitals we observed - I will begin with the implementation of the approved budget. Regional referral hospitals are expected to collect Non-Tax Revenue (NTR) to support the Government budget. Honourable colleagues, the total NTR was supposed to be Shs 20.406 billion, and there was an over performance of Shs 21.924 billion. However, this should be noted. From the table, the Government projected to collect the above, but Shs 21.924 billion was collected, meaning there was an over-performance. Honourable colleagues, as a committee, we noted that all accounting officers who did not meet their budgeted Non-Taxable Revenue (NTR) targets, or failed to realise their NTR contravened instructions 4.102 of the Treasury operations. The committee noted that less/non-transfer of NTR to the treasury deprives the Government of revenue and also noted that the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development failed to provide revenue targets to some of these entities. That is why there was an over-performance and also an underestimation of NTR by these entities. Therefore: (i) The accounting officer should ensure that NTR targets are set based on strong assumptions and benchmarks to enable realistic NTR. (ii) The accounting officers should institute mechanisms to ensure that a billed NTR is fully collected. (iii) The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development should always make prompt responses to requests of NTR revisions by entities. (iv) The accounting officers should incorporate all NTR sources during the budgeting process. Performance of the Government of Uganda warrants Madam Speaker, a total of Shs 475.44 billion was budgeted to be released to these referral hospitals and national specialised regional hospitals. However, a total of Shs 470.65 billion was released. From the above table, the Government

Yes, they are not in ICU, but they are very badly off. Among these is Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, Moroto Regional Referral Hospital, Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital, Jinja Regional Referral Hospital and Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. Those need special attention. Lastly, are the neonatal units in these referral hospitals where the young babies, the neonates, are kept. All these ones need special attention. That is just a summary of the National Referral Hospitals. Madam Speaker, this is a report of a summary of ministries, departments and agencies. I am just going to mention: We have the Office of the President, the Ministry of Public Service, the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development,

17753 Wednesday, 3 September 2025 Alebtong, Amuria, Abim, Bukedea, and most parts of Soroti. The transport infrastructure and other livelihoods have been severely affected. I am told the people in Bulambuli do not have food. Their little bridge that connects Abim and Obalanga in Kapelebyong has been washed away, while the Moroto Bridge remains at risk. Gardens have been submerged. I was also told by Hon. Amero that her little coffee has been swept away, so, I do not know what she is going to use for her retirement. I urge the Minister of Disaster Preparedness and Refugees to evaluate the situation and take appropriate action to see how we can remedy what is happening. Honourable members, we may be aware that the prevailing electoral roadmap by the Electoral Commission indicates that the parliamentary nominations are going to be on 15 th and 16 th October - that is one thing a Member of Parliament would know. We need to be ready for it. Make sure you have all that is required for you to be nominated. Look at the law. Do not reach there, and they tell you that you do not have a clearing certificate. Please do that. To the committee chairpersons and Members who have work before them, can you have all the work completed before we go for nominations? This is because we are going to be sitting from now until that time. We will not have a break because we need to dispose of all the business that is before committees. I wish all of you well. I know it is not an easy time, IN THE PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA Official Report of the Proceedings of Parliament FIFTH SESSION - 9TH SITTING - FIRST MEETING Parliament met at 2.00 p.m. in Parliament House, Kampala. PRAYERS (The Speaker, Ms Anita Among, in the Chair.) The House was called to order. COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHAIR

Yes, courtesy of the Speaker. My station manager in Moroto has already sent a framework contractor to handle the Kotido-Kaabong section. The Kotido station will handle the section between Kotido and Moroto, and my station in Moroto, on the first account, will handle the section between Moroto and Lopei. Therefore, these stations are active. The station in Soroti under Olupot has been handling the work between Soroti, Katakwi, and other areas. If your station has not yet been active -

Thank you, Madam Speaker. As regards your question on the NDP IV, Gulu-Lalogi-Opit-Moroto Road is number 257, which is scheduled to start in 2029. However, as we speak, that road is in a deplorable state. That bridge will soon be washed away; the bridge that connects Odek to Awere. What can the minister do in the meantime? Because you cannot wait for four years for maintenance. Secondly, on the issue of forced account, the biggest challenge has been budget cuts. There is a road that leaves Corner Minja to Cwero Kitgum Road. It has been planned for the last five years, but budget cuts are becoming a problem. Just last financial year, they cut 75 per cent of the budget. That is according to the station manager there. Therefore, I request that the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development avails the funds to help us maintain these roads. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Madam Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I thank the Government for its efforts in the construction and maintenance of roads. However, we still have a lot of challenges. I bring to the attention of the minister that we have the Moroto-Lokitanyala Road that is under construction, and is almost getting to completion. However, we have the majority of the Project-Affected Persons not compensated. Honourable minister, I want to know when you are going to complete the compensation of those project-affected persons before the road is completed. Thank you. Then you talked about the Moroto-Lopei and Kotido-Karenga roads. Honourable minister, we have a tarmac road that is not more than 15 years old. From the road at the Moroto-Kotido Junction up to Moroto Town, that is on Moroto- Soroti Road, we have a stretch with tarmac that has deteriorated so much to the extent that it does not even have potholes on the road, but water ponds. What are you thinking about repairing that part? And we have Moroto-Lokiriama Road, Lokiriama is in Kenya. That road has totally degenerated, and it is under the Ministry of Works and Transport. What are you thinking about the maintenance of that murram road? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I would also like to thank the minister and the ministry, for that matter, for maintaining the Kotido-Moroto murram road under your courtesy. However, I would like to inform and remind the minister that there is a road from Kotido, via Abim, Amuria, Kotido, Abim and Otuke, which is in a very deplorable state and yet, we are now receiving heavy rains. This is a road that is mainly used by buses from Kotido to Kampala, Soroti and Lira, but they get stuck

That is the one I said that the Gulu-Atiak-Nimule Road will be under reconstruction because it has deteriorated. To that, I will also answer with the road from Kitgum-Palabek-Ngomoromo. It is also under the refugee project. However, because of trade between Palabek, Kitgum, Ngomoromo and South Sudan, we are trying to maintain it so far using our own resources. On Moroto-Lokitanyala Road, it is about 85- 90 per cent ready. We are only left with a very small stretch to finish, but the compensation is lagging. As I said, if we get the money in the budget, we shall compensate. The Nadunget to Moroto stretch has been a disappointment because it failed before the time of the road. However, we have already got a company; China Railway No.3 (CR3) doing Moroto-Lokitanyala and we contracted them to cure and treat the Nadunget-Moroto stretch. That will be done. Madam Speaker, regarding Moroto- Lukilinyama on the border; that is a murram road, which we should be able to do using our

Yes, Madam Speaker. Kitgum-Matidi-Waal-Kalongo Road is a big challenge and as it slopes down in Kalongo, the terrain is very challenging and I know the district cannot manage. We shall ensure that Kitgum station addresses the issue of the Kitgum-Matidi-Waal-Kalongo Road. On the Pajule-Pader-Patongo Road, under the project we are doing now; Rwekunye- Apac-Lira-Puranga Road on the section of the Puranga-Acholibur Road, we are going to have a loop to Pader District through Pajule. So that will address the Pajule issue and some tarmac into Pader. Madam Speaker, Pader is just like Kalungu. There is no tarmac in Pader. Tarmac goes like this - but we will get there. Obongi Ferry is not in a very good state. We need to have a full rehabilitation of the ferry. Hopefully, when we start the construction of the Laropi Bridge, we shall relieve that more serviceable ferry and bring it downwards. The Koch Goma Bridge is under the Development Response to Displacement Impact Project (DRDIP) in the Prime Minister’s Office so I cannot respond on that. Lira-Otuke-Abim-Kotido Road is the road in the National Development Plan (NDP) IV. We will see whether we go through Achanpi or we first go to Kotido to Abim through Lira. Otherwise, we may eventually go to Achanpi and down to Soroti. Madam Speaker, Kotido-Moroto-Kaabong Road is a tourism project. Already, the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), the contractor who did the Entebbe Expressway, is in discussions with the finance ministry to pre-finance the project all the way from Moroto, Kotido-Kaabong-Karenga and up to Kidepo. Regarding the challenges of the station in Moyo, Madam Speaker, I do not think they have a lot of challenges. The challenge has been the delay to enable them to work, but that one we are resolving. The station managers who are out there are very industrious. They want to work. Once we solve this issue of them being allowed to operate their accounts, I think you will see a difference. Regarding the Karugutu-Ntoroko Road, there is already a contractor; Afcons, who is supposed to do that road. It has taken a while because, I think, again, of funding mechanisms. However, this is an oil road. It is package four of the oil road. It is going to be done soon because we are doing Lusalira-Nkonge now to Lumegere to Sembabule. So when we do that, Afcons will also come and do Karugutu-Ntoroko. Therefore, the maintenance of Fort Portal- Bundibugyo is critical because that is the only route which the people of Bundibugyo have. We have also China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) on that route to do a framework contract for maintenance up to Lamia. What are the adaptive engineering technologies which we are adopting to ensure that our roads survive the vagaries of nature? These are things which we do most of the time. All our projects, 90 per cent of them, must have the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) done and through that, we ensure

Madam Speaker, we acknowledge that Moroto Road is in NDP IV and it is four years from now, and that Odeg Bridge is a few rains away from being washed away. We request that the maintenance of that road is done periodically. We are not saying that it is not in the plan, but it is too far away. Can the Government maintain that road? That is our prayer.

Honourable minister, maintenance of Moroto Bridge?

Okay. Gulu- Awel-Opit-Rwackoko-Atog to Moroto and Abim, that is commonly known as the Moroto Road. I accept that it is not in a good state. It is not on plan yet for tarmacking, but we are going to maintain it as a good murram road. I make a commitment.

17664 STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT new district headquarters as a priority in the Financial Year 2024/2025. The Government should introduce a legal framework to streamline and guide both mother districts and the new cities on asset sharing, relocation and infrastructure. Madam Speaker, the committee also looked at remuneration of political leaders in the new cities. The committee observed that in Regulation 4 of the First Schedule of the Local Government Act, cities with high local revenue will have more funds to spend on emoluments of their officials as compared to those with less revenue, which not only creates discrepancies in payments to the public servants, but also creates room for abuse of funds in disguise of emoluments. The committee observed that discrepancies in emoluments and allowances cause a decline in morale and create unnecessary competition for jobs within high revenue generating local governments, and low level generating local governments thus attracting an environment of corruption. The committee recommends that the Government should introduce a Bill that will govern the operation of cities. The committee recommends that the Government should amend the Local Government Act and any other relevant laws that govern a city or urban area, to harmonise the salary and emoluments of staff and political leaders, regardless of revenues generated. Madam Speaker, the committee looked at the funding of the cities. The committee observed that the process of creating cities was done without due consideration of the criteria laid out in the Local Government Act, Cap 243. The committee observed that in the process of creating these cities, some rural subcounties were annexed to the existing municipalities without putting into consideration several critical issues about the future growth and development of the cities. The committee observed that the Government has failed to fund cities as per the status. The committee recommends that the Government should ensure adequate and sustainable funding to the newly created cities in the subsequent financial years before the remaining five cities take effect, that is Entebbe, Moroto, Nakasongola, Kabale, and Wakiso, to enable them to meet the demands and expectations of a city status. The committee recommends that the Government should be transparent with Parliament and the public, stating whether it can fully implement this commitment. General observation The committee on Government Assurance and Implementation did its assessment and found gaps in the operationalisation of the 10 cities created by the Government and approved by Parliament. The gaps were largely attributed to a lack of an enabling regulatory and legal framework, office space and accommodation, appropriate physical development plans, inadequate staffing, and inadequate funding. Conclusion The committee concludes that to a large extent, the Government has not implemented this assurance to fully operationalise the new cities. I, therefore, pray that the report of this Committee on Government Assurance and Implementation, on the status of implementation of the government assurance to fully operationalise the newly created cities, be considered by this House and the recommendations therein adopted. Madam Speaker, I beg to report.

Madam Speaker, we received questions from a number of Members. 1. Hon. Stella Atyang, the Woman Representative, Moroto, raised an issue that the X-ray in Moroto Referral Hospital, scanning machines, and newly constructed oxygen plants in Moroto Referral Hospital are non-functional. Her question is, when will the Ministry of Health help to repair, replace the scanning and oxygen machines and also functionalise the newly constructed oxygen plant at Moroto Referral Hospital? My response: Madam Speaker, the contract for the maintenance of X-rays and the ultrasound was awarded and the spare parts ordered for. The imaging equipment was repaired and made functional on 15 March 2025. Furthermore, the Government, through the Ministry of Health, procured a new X-ray machine, which has already arrived at the Ministry of Health stores. It will be installed in the next two weeks. Madam Speaker, the old oxygen plant was repaired and is now functional, as I have already told you. The Government is in the process of procuring an adequately sizable transformer and voltage power stabiliser under the Ministry of Energy in order for the high- capacity oxygen plant to be made functional. The current oxygen plants in Mbale, Soroti, and Lira are functional, and they are able to produce over 500 cylinders of oxygen per day, which can be supplied to Moroto in case of any high demand. 2. Hon. Akugizibwe Aled Roland (MP, Buruli County, Masindi District) The Ibaralibi-Alimugonza-Kitanyata Road (24.4 km) is in Buruli County and connects two sub-counties of Pakanyi and Kiruli, running through 11 villages. This road was recommended by Masindi District Local Government to be worked upon by the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) under the Agricultural Cluster Development Project (ACDP) in 2018. The road has five major chokes and as such, is totally impassable and so far, eight people have died on this road by running water. Seven years down the road, it has not been fixed and the district does not have the resources to work on this road. That he has raised the issue of this road on this Floor more than thrice, but nothing is forthcoming. His prayer is that MAAIF should come and work on this road so that people in this area can enjoy like other Ugandans, bearing in mind that a road is one of the main enablers of development. Madam Speaker, my response is that the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, through ACDP, contracted M/S Doramine Enterprise to work on specific road chokes for both Kiryandongo and Masindi Districts. The contractor commenced works in Kiryandongo District but due to its limited financial capacity, they did not complete the works as required. Madam Speaker, the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has consequently decided to procure another contractor and

Thank you, Madam Speaker, for the protection. As I was saying, the following projects are currently fully suspended due to non-payment: a) Masindi-Biiso and Kabale-Kiziiranfumbi, one of the critical roads. The contractor demands Shs 111 billion, so we cannot expect that contractor to continue working; b) Works on the Najjanankumbi-Busabala are suspended because we owe the contractor Shs 44 billion, and we also need money for land acquisition; c) Moroto-Lokitanyala. This one is at about 80 per cent progress, but we need to find the money so that the project can be completed; d) Mityana-Mubende. We gave the contractor, out of the money which was appropriated, the Shs 462 billion, Shs 39 billion out of the IPCs, which he had, but he told us

17547 Tuesday, 29 July 2025 During this season, I have been able to move throughout the country, and I found out that the roads are in a sorry state, especially after these rains. You find that some roads are impassable. I went to Hoima, and they were working on the road since the takeover of UNRA, but the dust on the road, you cannot even see a car in front of you. That will cause accidents. Most of the roads that were being worked on have been abandoned. We may need to have a report from the Ministry of Works and Transport. (Applause) The issue has always been that we do not have money. You find that Kampala-Hoima Road is terrible, Kampala- Jinja Road is terrible, Mityana-Mubende Road, Moroto Road, Kafu – all those roads. We would like to understand what is happening. Masaka Road - even connecting from Mbarara to Sheema, the road is bad. You wonder what is happening. We allocate money but the roads are not being worked on. Where is the money going to? Therefore, we need a statement from the Government on what is happening with the roads. The accidents that are happening – You find that there is a truck that maybe has a mechanical problem, parked with no signs informing road users of an accident or a parked truck, and that causes accideSnts. We need to handle that to avoid the accidents that are happening in the country, because we are losing a lot of people. Honourable members, as you may be aware, Uganda, alongside Tanzania and Kenya, IN THE PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA Official Report of the Proceedings of Parliament FIFTH SESSION - 3RD SITTING - FIRST MEETING Parliament met at 1.59 p.m. at Parliament House, Kampala. PRAYERS (The Speaker, Ms Anita Among, in the Chair.) The House was called to order. COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHAIR

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Allow me to thank Members for coming back. As the minister brings the report, there is a road I think they have forgotten about and for the last five years, it has become a death-trap, never maintained. That is the road that leaves Corner Minja up to Cwero; the road to Kitgum. It is the road that connects Omoro to Kitgum. That road has become a death-trap. I would like to remind the minister that, that road exists and it is in a very bad shape. Madam Speaker, they have talked so much about the issue of maintenance of roads but the Moroto Road that you mentioned slightly

17524 BUDGET SPEECH iv. The government is revamping the road and drainage infrastructure within the entire Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (GKMA), to the extent that the entire city is now a construction site. Banange bebale. A total of Shs 1.4 trillion has been dedicated to improving roads and drainage within GKMA. To deal with traffic congestion arising out of the gridlock generated by roundabouts, all major junctions are being improved and signalled with traffic lights. The Kampala Flyover and Road Upgrading Project has been completed. v. Construction of 10 bridges is ongoing at an average of 74.7 per cent progress. Madam Speaker, next financial year, the Government has significantly increased the budget for road infrastructure development. I have allocated an additional Shs 790 billion, bringing the total budget for roads to Shs 4.28 trillion. The following will be prioritised next financial year: 1. Start construction and complete ongoing works for road projects as highlighted by His Excellency the President in his State-of- the-Nation Address. In addition, the roads which had been left out to be prioritised are: Puranga-Acholibur (65 kilometres); Kampala- Gayaza-Kalagi (33 kilometres); Lugazi- Buikwe-Kiyindi (28 kilometres); Kabwohe- Bwizibwera-Nyakambu-Nsika-Nyakabirizi (92.2 kilometres); Kisubi-Nakawuka-Natete- Kasanje-Mpigi-Mawugulu-Nanziga-Maya- Buwaya (71 kilometres); Busega-Mpigi (10 kilometres); Najjanankumbi-Busabala (11 kilometres); Lusalira-Nkonge-Lumegere- Sembabule (97 kilometres); Karugutu-Ntoroko (50 kilometres); Kabale-Lake Bunyonyi (15.1 kilometres), Kisoro-Nkuringo-Lubugiri-Muko (70 kilometres); Laropi-Moyo-Afoji (39 kilometres), including a bridge at Laropi, Koboko-Yumbe-Moyo (105 kilometres); Namagumba-Budadiri-Nalugugu (33 kilometres); Tororo-Busia (25 kilometres); Katuna-Muko-Kamuganguzi (104 kilometres); Moroto-Lokitanyala (42 kilometres); Hamurwa-Kerere-Kanungu (47 kilometres); Lyantonde-Kashagama-Nyabitanga-Ntusi road (57.7 kilometres); Isingiro-Rugaaga- Mutukula-Ngarama-Kashumba-Kasese on the border with Tanzania (164 kilometres) – I hope my friends who were talking to me yesterday, I have satisfied you. Masindi Bridge; and Karuma Bridge. 2. Start construction and complete ongoing works for bridges as highlighted by His Excellency the President in his State-of- the-Nation Address. 3. Commence implementation of the Kampala- Jinja Expressway through a Public-Private Partnership framework. 4. Prioritise maintenance of the core national road transport network and DUCAR. Railway Transport Madam Speaker, in November 2024, His Excellency the President launched construction of the 272-kilometre Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Malaba to Kampala. The SGR is a strategic investment for our country. It will cut cargo transport cost by half from the current $120 per ton, and reduce transit time from Mombasa to Kampala from seven days to one day, turning Uganda into a land-linked country as opposed to being landlocked. The initial works for the construction of the SGR have started. Madam Speaker, Government has completed the refurbishment and commissioning of the Mukono-Kampala Metre Gauge Railway line. In addition, rehabilitation of the 375 kilometres of the Tororo to Gulu Metre Gauge Railway will be completed by February 2026. Madam Speaker, next financial year, priority interventions will include completing the rehabilitation of the Tororo-Gulu Metre Gauge Railway line; refurbishment of the Mukono-Jinja Metre Gauge Railway line; and construction of the Standard Gauge Railway from Kampala to Malaba.

17526 BUDGET SPEECH ii) Enhance access to electricity through implementation of the $638 million Electricity Access Scale-up Project covering grid expansion, connectivity and clean energy options for one million new electricity connections. Further, the Government will continue investing in priority transmission lines and sub-stations, particularly to the industrial parks, growth centres and other strategic manufacturing facilities like the clinker factory in Moroto, Karamoja; the fertiliser factory in Kampirigisa, Mpigi; Simba Cement Factory in Mbarara, Western Uganda; Dei BioPharma in Matugga, Wakiso District; and; the Coffee Factory in Ntungamo, among others. iii) Commence development of new power generation plants to meet the growing demand. These include new hydropower plants at Ayago and Oriang in Nwoya District, and Kiba in Oyam District, the development of nuclear power in Buyende District, and the rehabilitation of Kiira- Nalubaale Power Plant. Industrial Development and Manufacturing Madam Speaker, with regard to industrial development and manufacturing, the following achievements have been registered: i) The Government has operationalised eight industrial parks, which include Namanve, Luzira, Bweyogerere, Mbale, Soroti, Kasese, Mbarara, and Jinja industrial parks. We have also supported the development of three privately-owned industrial parks, which are Liao Shen Kapeeka in Nakaseke District, MMP in Buikwe District, and Tian Tang in Mukono. ii) To-date, a total of 628 companies/industries have been allocated land within the various industrial parks, 47 per cent of which are in manufacturing. Out of all the companies allocated land, 307 are fully operational, 195 are undertaking construction, and 122 have commenced preparatory activities. The parks have attracted a total capital investment of $4.5 billion and created 181,403 jobs. iii) Madam Speaker, several industrial parks have become centres of innovation, hosting firms that have introduced new technologies and products, such as: a single HIV pill (Quality Chemicals Ltd); GIS transformers (Orion Electricals); plastic-to-fabric recycling (Fei Long Investment Ltd); locally manufactured electric vehicles (Kiira Motors); the first powder-free surgical gloves (East African Medical Vitals); and import substitution products like fridges, transformers, toiletries, textiles, ceramics, televisions, and blankets. iv) The government has supported industrialisation by investing in strategic manufacturing facilities through Uganda Development Corporation with a total investment of Shs 1.2 trillion. Madam Speaker, next financial year, I have provided Shs 308.9 billion to further support infrastructure development in industrial parks, including roads, waste management, drainage, and utilities; and Shs 187 billion for capitalisation of Uganda Development Corporation (UDC). Security, Good Governance, and Rule of Law Madam Speaker, security, good governance and the rule of law are the foundation for socio- economic transformation. Everybody knows that. During this financial year, the following achievements were registered: i) Strengthened and modernised the security infrastructure to protect Ugandans, investors and our visitors from any security threats. We have invested in security apparatus and more sophisticated intelligence network and border control mechanisms. ii) Provided adequate funds to security institutions, including the Military, Police, Prisons, and intelligence agencies for operations, and improving the capacity and welfare of men and women in uniform. iii) Promoted regional and international relations, including playing a strategic role in peace processes in Somalia, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Equatorial Guinea;

17416 THE UGANDA PEOPLE’S DEFENCE FORCES (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2025 The scenario of Karamoja, which was presented in the committee as a success story of the Court Martial, was unjustified. It was claimed that judicial officers had feared being deployed in Karamoja to hear cases because of insecurity. These are the questions: a) Were other courts in the neighbouring districts also unavailable to try those cases? b) Didn’t the same Government demonstrate to Ugandans that courts in Karamoja were fully functional when Col (Rtd) Dr Kiiza Besigye was flown to Moroto and charged in the civilian courts? c) Who is mandated to ensure law and order in Uganda, and why not deal with the root causes of it all, which is the security of the judicial officers, rather than recourse to the Court Martial? d) Were the trials free and fair in Karamoja (the presumption of innocence)? Were the charges read to them? Did they take a proper plea? Did they give evidence as per the Evidence Act? Was there a ruling on the prima facie case? Was there a defence? Were there convictions? Did they allow them to plead to mitigate? What was the sentencing guideline? In the opinion of the minority, it is foolish to legislate and provide for unconstitutional situations, like providing for scenarios where the constitutional laws are not enforced. All I am saying is that the Parliament cannot sit and legislate for a situation where the Constitution is not; it would be foolish of us to do that. As such, to –

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Vot :, utilttfffm frffid(UAXmO'l 406 Hoima Hospital r08.000 407 Jinja Hospital 108.000 408 Kabale Hospital 108.000 409 Masaka Hospital 108.000 410 Mbate Hospital 1.408.000 4LL Soroti Hospital 108.OO0 4t2 Lira Hospital 108.O00 4L3 Mbarara Reeional Hospital 108.000 4L4 I&leode Reeional Rcferral Hospital 135.000 415 Moroto Regional Referrat Hospital 130.139 4L6 Nqgq4LLReferral Hospital 7.2L6.OOO 4L7 IEryddfr Referral Hospital 1.377.O00 418 I(awem.pe Refql Hospital 810,OOO 419 Entebbe Resional Beferral Hospital 810.000 420 Mulaso Specializd Women and Neonatal Hospital 2,O4L.200 42L Kanrnm Referraf Hospital 300,000 422 I flrloar Abrocd 501 Uganda Mission at the Unitcd Nations, New Yo,rk 1.092,000 502 Umnda Hish ConEission in the United Kinsdom 503 Usanda Hish Commission in Canada. Ottawa 17,687.4L3 504 Umnda Histl ComEission in lrdia. New Deltri 505 Uganda Hisb Commission in lGtrya,Nairobi 3,390.O00 506 Usanda Hinh Commission in Tanzania . Dar es Salaam 6,390,000 so7 Uganda High Cpmmission in Nigeria, Abuja 508 Uganda High Commksion in South Africa, Pletoria 150,000 509 Uganda Hiih Commission in Rtrnanda, Kigali 510 Uganda Embassy in the United States , Washington 511 Upnda Embassy in Egrpt, Cair! 5L2 Ueanda Embassv in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa 513 Uganda Embassy in China. BeiiinE lt. 514 UFnaa Embassrr in Snilzerlsnd. Geneva utl 400,000 515 Uganda Embassy in Japan. Tokyo WD 516 5L7 Uganda Embassy in Denmark, Copenhagen ,f -H I 7 518 uganda EmbaEsrrin Belsium, Brussels /V \ ' 7 \-- 4.g68.s87 N s N$ a 53 d

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Thank you, Mr Speaker. I also take this opportunity to thank the committee for the good work. Mr Speaker, I am lucky that our minister is here with us. I happen to come from the Karamoja Subregion, which is characterised by some challenges, mostly of insecurity across the border with the neighbours. I remember one time I went to inspect a road, together with our minister, from Moroto to Lokitanyala. While we were there, I told him that the area borders the Turkana on one side and the Pokot on the other side. There is a need for a ring road because of the porous borders. It should run from a parish called Lopelipel to Nakiloro, to buffer the area from the Turkana whenever they come to invade and cause insecurity in Uganda. From that time, I have not heard anything regarding that ring road. Honourable minister, what is the problem? We have said that we should have one East African Community, promote trade, and be peaceful. What is happening? I have engaged your commissioners to consider this ring road, to connect the whole area around Mt Moroto, and to ensure that services are provided to the people of Tepeth County, which I represent in this House. Secondly, there is an issue of bridges and culverts. The only good bridges are those constructed by the – (Member timed out .)

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. I join my colleagues to appreciate the committee for the work done. I have a few concerns. One, the committee’s report states that 16 oxygen plants were installed and operationalised. That excludes Moroto Regional Referral Hospital. However, Moroto Regional Referral Hospital also got this type of oxygen plant installed, but not operationalised. It is two years down the road. I want to know from the ministry when the oxygen plant will be operationalised, because the hospital is apparently paying for the provision of oxygen to the patients. It is not enough, and this is affecting the operation of the hospital. Secondly, Moroto Regional Referral Hospital has broken-down x-ray and ultrasound machines. For three years, we have been reporting this to the ministry with no positive response yet these services mostly affect the majority of the poor who are not able to go to private hospitals to access these services. When are you going to respond to that issue, to save the majority of the poor? Thirdly, Mr Speaker, we are talking of low staff levels, but we have staff who actually have two jobs. They work in government hospitals and, at the same time, have their private health facilities. The two jobs actually affect the effectiveness of the hospitals, because –

16839 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 9 APRIL 2025 in the west, it would match some of the news circuits that were created by the Judiciary. Almost every three or four districts have had High Court sessions taking place, but you find that the suspects are again referred to Luzira. It is an inconvenience for someone to travel from Moroto to check on a suspect here in Luzira. Therefore, if we decentralise these new wards for inmates in a bit to decongest, it will help a lot. Finally, on NIRA, the renewal of national IDs, we need to be clear. When are we having the national IDs renewed? Today, I am carrying an ID, but tomorrow it is supposed to expire. I do not know what happens. We will be going for nominations soon, and for this alone, somebody can deny you nomination because your ID expired. Can we be clear? When are our national IDs going to be renewed countrywide? I thank you, Mr Speaker.

16765 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 12 MARCH 2025 Vote 141: Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) – Shs 38.137 billion The committee observes that the Uganda Revenue Authority requires Shs 38.13 billion for payment to RIPPLE NAMI INC in respect of the 25 per cent of the net rental income taxes collected for greater Kampala area over and above the baseline. The committee recommends approval of Shs 38.17 billion to Vote 141: URA. Vote 144: Uganda Police Force – Shs 190.969 billion The committee observed that the Uganda Police Force requires Shs 190.969 billion to meet operational shortfalls for the Financial Year 2024/25 with respect to food, crime intelligence and investigations, utilities, classified assets, vehicles for DPCs and domestic arrears. The committee recommends approval of Shs 190.969 billion to Vote 144: Uganda Police Force. Vote 302: Mbarara University – Shs 3.998 billion The committee observed that Mbarara University requires Shs 3.998 billion for non-tax revenue collections which are over projections in the Budget and have been confirmed by the Accountant-General. The committee recommends approval of Shs 3.998 billion to vote 302. Vote 415: Moroto Regional Referral Hospital – Shs 481 million The committee observed that Moroto Regional Referral Hospital requires Shs 481 million to cater for renovation and replacement of old and dilapidated structures and the old drainage system. The committee recommends approval of Shs 481 million to Vote 415: Moroto Regional Referral Hospital. Vote 506: Uganda High Commission, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – Shs 749 million. The committee was informed that Uganda High Commission in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania requires Shs 749 million to enable the vote meet budget shortfalls on rent, financial constraints in the Uganda Consulate in Arusha and organisation and participation in the 5 th Session of the Uganda- Tanzania Joint Permanent Commission. The committee recommends approval of Shs 749 million to Vote 506. Vote 512: Uganda Embassy in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa – Shs 2 billion The committee was informed that the Uganda Embassy in Addis requires Shs 2 billion to cover budget shortfalls on rent, AU peace and Security Council activities and to cater for salary shortfalls. The committee recommends approval of Shs 2 billion to Vote 512. Vote 513: Uganda Embassy in China, Beijing – Shs 219 million The committee was informed that the Uganda Embassy in China, Beijing, requires Shs 219 million to cater for unpaid premiums on medical insurance to avoid legal action against the vote. The committee recommends approval of Shs 219 million to Vote 513. Vote 515: Uganda Embassy in Japan, Tokyo – Shs 1.5 billion The committee was informed that the Uganda Embassy in Japan requires Shs 1.5 billion to facilitate the 2025 Osaka World Expo in view of economic and commercial diplomacy. The committee recommends approval of Shs 1.5 billion to Vote 515. Vote 516: Uganda Embassy in Saudi Arabia – Shs 273 million The committee was informed that the Uganda Embassy in Saudi Arabia requires Shs 273

16785 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 12 MARCH 2025 time we give you a schedule, we know that you know how to read. 1. Vote 144 - Uganda Police Force – Shs 62,969,000,500; 2. Vote 166 - National Council of Sports – Shs 68,894,694,780; 3. Vote 167 – Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation – Shs 60,000,000,000; 4. Vote 301 – Makerere University – Shs 5,000,000,000; 5. Vote 302 - Mbarara University – Shs 3,997,829,950; 6. Vote 409 – Masaka Hospital – Shs 600,000,000; 7. Vote 415 – Moroto Regional Referral Hospital – Shs 481,000,000; 8. Vote 417 – Kiruddu National Referral Hospital – Shs 2,000,000,000; 9. Vote 505 - Uganda High Commission in Kenya, Nairobi – Shs 1,800,000,000; 10. Vote 506 – Uganda High Commission in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam – Shs 749,000,000; 11. Vote 512 - Uganda Embassy in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa - Shs 2,000,000,000; 12. Vote 513 - Uganda Embassy in China, Beijing - Shs 219,000,000; 13. Vote 515 - Uganda Embassy in Japan, Tokyo – Shs 1,500,000,000; 14. Vote 516 - Uganda Embassy in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh – Shs 273,000,000; 15. Vote 517 - Uganda Embassy in Denmark, Copenhagen – Shs 904,000,000; 16. Vote 523 - Uganda Embassy in Germany, Berlin – Shs 2,959,000,000; and 17. Vote 524 - Uganda Embassy in Iran, Tehran – Shs 1,038,000,000; and 18. Vote 537 - Uganda mission in Havana, Cuba – Shs 314,000,000. Sub-total (Central Government) – Shs 2,489,823,488,735.

16786 THE MORTGAGE REFINANCE INSTITUTIONS BILL, 2024 14. Vote 722 – Moroto Municipal Council - Shs 137,831,048; 15. Vote 724 - Mukono Municipal Council – Shs 157,843,584; 16. Vote 726 – Nebbi Municipal Council – Shs 38,895,597; 17. Vote 729 - Rukungiri Municipal Council - Shs 11,011,184; 18. Vote 730 - Sheema Municipal Council - Shs 4,109,634; 19. Vote 802 – Adjumani District - Shs 19,860,000; 20. Vote 803 – Agago District - Shs 81,984,000; 21. Vote 807: Amuria District – Shs 57,525,000; 22. Vote 808: Amuru District – Shs 1,271,000,000; 23. Vote 811: Budaka District – Shs 45,500,000; 24. Vote 812: Bududa District – Shs 99,504,000; 25. Vote 813: Bugiri District – Shs 107,555,970; 26. Vote 817: Bukedea District – Shs 235,603,000; 27. Vote 821: Buliisa District – Shs 31,440,000; 28. Vote 827: Butambala District – Shs 31,633,858; 29. Vote 828: Butebo District – Shs 15,360,000; 30. Vote 832: Gomba District – Shs 31,395,000; 31. Vote 836: Iganga District – Shs 37,200,000; 32. Vote 835: Ibanda District – Shs 12,000,000; 33. Vote 837: Isingiro District – Shs 2,633,333,265; 34. Vote 842: Kaberamaido District – Shs 31,589,664; 35. Vote 844: Kakumiro District – Shs 448,858,700; 36. Vote 847: Kaliro District – Shs 310,200,761; 37. Vote 848: Kalungu District – Shs 6,117,000; 38. Vote 849: Kamuli District – Shs 65,029,474; 39. Vote 853: Kapelebyong District – Shs 88,207,238; 40. Vote 854: Karenga District – Shs 39,240,000; 41. Vote 855: Kasese District – Shs 142,590,000; 42. Vote 857: Katakwi District – Shs 157,861,200; 43. Vote 858: Kayunga District – Shs 11,270,000; 44. Vote 862: Kibuku District – Shs 399,326,980; 45. Vote 863: Kikuube District – Shs 127,115,012; 46. Vote 866: Kisoro District – Shs 78,755,970; 47. Vote 867: Kitagwenda District – Shs 700,600,000; 48. Vote 868: Kitgum District – Shs 117,742,657; 49. Vote 870: Kole District – Shs 64,680,000; SUPPLEMENTARY EXPENDITURE SCHEDULE NO.3 FOR FY 2024/2025 [The Chairperson]

I put the question that the total sum of Shs 1,332,386,480,312 be provided for as a supplementary for development expenditure for central government for the Financial Year 2024/2025. (Question put and agreed to.) LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURE 1. Vote 722 - Moroto Municipal Council: Shs 160 million; 2. Vote 820 - Bulambuli District: Shs 202,244,620; 3. Vote 827- Butambala District: Shs 36,356,530; 4. Vote 838 - Jinja District: Shs 213 million; 5. Vote 845 - Kalaki District: Shs 74,776,279; 6. Vote 858 - Kayunga District: Shs 235,200,000; 7. Vote 865 - Kiryandongo District: Shs 120 million; 8. Vote 866 - Kisoro District: Shs 567,851,100; 9. Vote 867 - Kitagwenda District: Shs 412 million; 10. Vote 875 - Kyankwanzi District: Shs 80 million; 11. Vote 882 – Luwero District: Shs 540,756,000; 12. Vote 898 – Mubende District: Shs 378,616,912; 13. Vote 906 - Namutumba District: Shs 40 million; 14. Vote 924 – Rukungiri District: Shs 198,591,279; 15. Vote 926 – Sembabule District: Shs 350 million; 16. Vote 928 – Sheema District: Shs 50,442,000; 17. Vote 932 – Tororo District: 651,605,442; and 18. Vote 933 - Wakiso District: Shs 165,137,504. Subtotal for Local Government: Shs 4,476,577,666.

15933 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 30 JANUARY 2025 production for the subregion. We are aware that Karamoja needs water for production in order to increase food production. Mr Speaker, I would also like to comment on wasteful Government expenditures. A case in point is the oxygen and ICU plants that were purchased by the Ministry of Health, taken to Moroto Regional Referral Hospital, and dumped outside. At the end of the day, the harsh weather conditions destroyed the equipment before it was put to use. Mr Speaker, this is a result of poor planning and the careless actions by the Government that has led to poor performance, in terms of service delivery in this country. These are some of the issues the responsible ministries should be looking at to hold accountable the officers that lead to loss of resources. The Government must ensure that it imposes harsh punishments on them by asking them to pay for the losses. This will help our officers or employees to be responsible when they are planning for this country.

15844 STANDING COMMITTEE R E PORT Mr Speaker, as if that was not enough, every year towards the eve of the election;-December of the last year to election, the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs writes to our district Chief Administrative Officers asking them to send lists of people who deserve compensation, and that has been done severally. In the last election, in December 2020, the list was again compiled and nothing happened after the list was compiled. This year, I am sure the Attorney-General is planning, together with the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, to do the same. (Applause) The people of Karamoja deserve justice. I will tell you why our people are in Masindi. Do you think they took a tour there? No! In 1978, the Government abandoned armour in Moroto Barracks. The criminal elements went to the armour and ransacked everywhere in our community. Our people ran to Masindi, where they live to date. There is a community that speaks only Nga Karamojong. They have never returned home. It was not for exploration. It was because of that criminality. Therefore, when I hear compensation being discussed and Uganda thinks that Karamojongs have compensated themselves - that is unfair. We do not have the facts and that was why you laughed – (Interjections) - when Hon. Sylvia submitted. Yes, there was a civil war in this country. It did not happen in only small parts. It happened everywhere in the country. If you want us to talk about civil wars -my father’s village was burned down three times consecutively. Every government that comes must burn it first. We have never been compensated and have not asked for it. Mr Speaker, if we are thinking about compensating for political victims who suffered the political crisis or civil war arising from political change, it should cover the whole country. Every part of Uganda suffered. (Applause) I am interested in that policy. In fact, I recommend that the Attorney-General and the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs make a consultative process for developing that policy. I am sure you will not think about it alone. You need our input into that policy to help the country. I submit. ( Applause )

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for this opportunity. The issue of compensation is a very sensitive matter. I have listened to the submissions of most of the Members. I come from Teso, and I am very confident that when these issues arose, I was mature enough, especially during the time of the overthrow of Amin, whereby the soldiers who were running took away the cattle of the people, destroyed property and some people were killed. That followed after the barracks of Moroto was attacked, the guns taken and the same guns used to take the cows. This was followed by the LRA war – by Kony and Lakwena – and also the rebel groups that came to Teso. Mr Speaker, if this issue is true, let the office of the Attorney-General display the lists of those people who have been compensated per subcounty so that those who lost their property believe that they have been compensated. In my county of Toroma, there is a subcounty called Magoro, which borders Karamoja. No person has been compensated for the cows they lost during that time of insurgency. Also, I want the office of the Attorney-General to make sure that the data cards are available, especially to the people who did not have the opportunity to register because they lost their property. Getting data cards is a nightmare. I submit. Thank you.

Okay. The industrial courts, LDC interventions that contribute to justice service delivery, court-related forensic analysis interventions, LC courts, DPP interventions that contribute to justice service delivery are more directly related to the administration of justice programme. Therefore, the committee recommends that all the interventions currently under the governance and security programme that relate to the enhancement of equitable access to justice for social economic development and the strengthening of justice service delivery systems should be transferred to the administration of justice programme. It is an issue of alignment of the 18 programmes, as highlighted above. Regionally balanced development The committee observes that although commendable progress has been registered in reducing poverty, regional disparities have, however, remained and increased vulnerabilities across regions. The chairman had mentioned it, so, I will not read it. The committee recommends that the Government prioritises the development and implementation of regional development plans, including comprehensive regional physical plans, to ensure balanced economic growth, equitable service delivery, and equitable resource distribution. I would have asked for an investment map, but the committee did not allow. Promotion of games and sports The committee observes that the National Development Plan (NDP) IV provides for several interventions for promoting games and sports but does not provide interventions relating to physical exercises for health reasons, amateur sports for mass participation and professional sports for commercial benefit. In addition, the committee observes that the NDP IV high-impact projects focuses only on the establishment of four regional sports stadia and 14 district sports grounds in the traditional sub-regions of Uganda. These do include international and national stadia. Further, the committee observes that the desired high-level programme results by the year 2029- 2030 provide insufficient information in regard to niche sports rankings. This hinders the effective monitoring of the high-level program results. Therefore, the committee recommends two interventions. a. That the NDP IV is amended to incorporate interventions for physical exercises for health reasons, amateur sports for mass participation and professional sports for commercial benefit. b. NDP IV high-impact projects should be amended to include three international stadia, Namboole, Hoima, and Akii- Bua, 10 KCCA artificial surface grounds (Rubaga, Kawempe, Makindye, Nakawa and Central Divisions) and 15 national stadia (Arua, Moroto, Soroti, Mbale, Tororo, Iganga, Jinja, Lugazi, Luwero, Masaka, Mbarara, Ntungamo, Kabale, Kasese and Fort Portal. Railway master plan The committee observed that the NDP IV mentions that in order to lower the cost of doing business, the focus will be on improving the transport infrastructure. However, the NDP IV is silent on the need to develop a railway

15572 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION master plan that would guide investment in the development of railway projects across the country. Without this master plan, the interventions will be haphazardly done. Therefore, the committee recommends that the Government prioritises the development of the railway master plan that clearly highlights the railway connectivity across the country. Where will it start and where will it end? Taking what? And picking what? Animal and crop traceability The committee observes that the NDP IV is silent on the comprehensive strategy for traceability for animals and crops. Currently, traceability of animals and crops is being undertaken at a piecemeal level. When international markets demand it, then we set up. The lack of a comprehensive strategy and implementation framework for traceability for animals and crops constrains the marketability of Uganda’s products internationally. The committee recommends that the Government prioritises a comprehensive strategy for all crops, livestock, and fish not just for picking one and leaving the other- (Interjection)- Yes, we should. Finally, I am finishing the last one. The NDP IV projects listed a long list of projects. The committee observed that the proposed NDP IV listed projects including the high- impact projects which are not regionally balanced. They exclude key projects required to upgrade Health Centres II, key tourism and other strategic road infrastructure upgrades, some projects listed are duplicated. You will find that the agricultural project is registered twice, projects in the completion stages have a full cost in the plan and therefore, inflate the total cost of the plan; some are at 80 per cent but they have included a full cost. Some bridges that are completed and operational are still in the plan like the Issa Bridge, Nyara Bridge connecting Arua to Otrevu, and the Kangole Bridge connecting Katakwi to Moroto. We are using the bridge but I do not know what it is doing in the plan. Other strategic impact projects that will solve Uganda’s needs are omitted in the plan. So, the committee recommends that comprehensive amendments to the NDP IV high-impact project list and the NDP IV project list is undertaken to remove project duplication, update the actual status of projects, and incorporate the high- impact projects that are listed in that annex. Two, that the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development should submit to Parliament an amended NDP IV project list within one month from the date of approval of this plan -(Interjection) - is one month too much? The House will decide that but there is cleaning that must be done in the plan so that we know what we are focusing on for the next five years. Madam Speaker, the joint Committee on Finance, Planning and Economic Development and the Committee on Budget made those observations and begged that the House approve the NDP IV with the recommendations highlighted above. I beg to submit.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Government of Uganda, through the Ministry of Works and Transport, is doing a wonderful job of upgrading Moroto- Lokitanyala Road. The only challenge or question that I want to ask is: some of the Project-Affected Persons (PAPs) have been paid but some have not. The project is almost complete. The affected people are now asking, if the project is complete, the contractor will go, and who is going to pay them. They want some assurance, especially from UNRA or the Ministry of Works and Transport. Thank you.

I thank you for your indulgence, Madam Speaker. I also want to take this opportunity to welcome the executive members of Kabale Regional Referral Hospital to Parliament. This is a mode of parliament, which is only in four hospitals: Moroto; Gulu; Lira; and Masaka. These are representatives of the workers in the hospital. They include heads of departments, the in-charge and top management. The only thing they do not do is to make laws. However, they do oversight, debate and also represent their members. Madam Speaker, they have also told me to thank you and the entire Parliament for the appropriation that Parliament has done because Kabale Regional Referral Hospital now has a modern CT scan. Through your appropriation, Members, Kabale Regional Referral Hospital also has a modern ICU under construction. On top of that, I also want to thank you, Members, for your appropriation, which has enabled Kabale Hospital to have three oxygen plants. (Applause) However, they still have challenges and one of the top challenges is the staff structure. Under the new structure, Kabale Hospital always comes lowest. Its staffing level is at 22 per cent. Since we have started the budgeting process, my prayer is that, at least, Kabale Hospital gets the budget to raise its staffing level, at least, to 50 per cent, such that it can be at the level of other hospitals. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

15271 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA TUESDAY, 26 NOVEMBER 2024 g. Purchase service access equipment for special interest groups, target user groups, to access e-government services. Madam Speaker, this project was presented to the Cabinet on 14 August 2023, it was presented to this House by the Committee on National Economy, approved on the 6 December 2023 and Parliament also cleared it. However, there have been back-and-forth discussions to conclude everything. The China Exim Bank issued the Notice of Effectiveness Certificate for the loan on 18 September 2024, declaring the project to be effective. Much as we approved it in December last year, the processes which followed could only enable us to have the bank clear the project in September this year, just a few months ago. In accordance with the financing requirements for the loan, NITA-U procured and signed an agreement with the contractor who will implement the project. NITA-U and the contractor have already commenced preparatory activities to commence the implementation of the project. His Excellency, the President is expected to be in Karamoja just next week, and according to the schedule that we have, on the 4 th of December, we shall be officially launching this Phase 5 project of extending the Backbone in Moroto, in Karamoja. Therefore, the NBI/EGI Phase 5 project is planned to be implemented within four years from the effective date of the commercial contract between NITA-U and the contractor. Madam Speaker, we are just beginning the implementation of this project. We want to interest members to keep in touch with our ministry to ensure that all our districts get connected. We shall connect all the districts, but just to update you on the progress so that we move together. I will regularly be coming to the House to give updates so that our communities can get connected for internet. The final part of my presentation just speaks to the expected benefits of these two projects. I will maybe just read the headings without going into too much detail. The expected benefits from these projects include, but are not limited to, the following: i. Increased network coverage and regional connectivity. As we all appreciate, Madam Speaker, the future is digital, and we cannot run away from digital services now. So, once we conclude the implementation of these projects, we should be able to have better network coverage across the whole country. ii. Reduction in the cost of internet bandwidth. The challenge we still face, as a country and the developing world, is that, yes, as we go digital, you find that some of these services, including the internet – the data bundles – are still expensive for ordinary Ugandans. Once we expand the infrastructure and get many people hooked onto these services, this, plus other measures, will enable us to see the cost of the internet go down so that we have a favourable ecosystem that can enable all of us to transact, digitally, in this country. iii. Improved efficiency of digital service delivery in the public sector. As I have indicated, strengthening e-government services is one of the components of the Uganda Digital Acceleration Project (UDAP). We are steadily moving from analog and manual processes to digital services. I am sure some of you have gone to, say, process a land title or get a driving permit. You appreciate that systems have now improved because you can be served in a much shorter and more efficient way and, maybe, with less risk of corruption.

Madam Speaker, maybe we should also request the minister to clarify on this. We read it from the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development that 10 more cities are coming up, including Moroto and the rest.

14984 THE COTTON DEVELOPMENT (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2024 to get on the market and are developed by specialised teams. This is a continuous activity, season after season. Therefore, the two entities mandate not only differ but are also too unique and do not overlap. We must note that the ministry does not have the capacity. It has insufficient budget funding. It is also struggling with too much bureaucracy, which will affect efficiency and effectiveness. The above is coupled with the laissez-faire syndrome of permanent and pensionable staff that has seen the ministry to date fail to come up with fisheries and aquaculture regulations to protect our fishermen, even after this 11 th Parliament passed the Bill. The MAAIF has failed to come up with the T-Regulations up to date, even when Parliament resolved that the minister in charge of agriculture come up with the T-Regulation. The ministry gave out tractors without ploughs and other spare parts in Northern Uganda and in other parts of the country. MAAIF has occasionally failed to regulate the fake agricultural inputs on the market, like pesticides, fertilisers and the agrochemical inputs. Equally important to note is the fact that MAAIF has failed to guide the Government on the long-delayed Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) which are flooding our market. MAAIF has failed to implement water for production projects in most parts of the country. Technically, the ministry has been launching these projects and failed to complete them and they end up not handing over anything to local governments. This has been evident in Moroto, Karamoja Sub region and other parts of the country. MAAIF has failed the mechanisation centres across the entire country. They are dysfunctional wherever they were established. A case in point is Kiruhura District where the committee, at one of its oversight roles, visited and discovered that officials upon discovering that the Committee on Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries was going to visit the place, carried two tractors, slashed around and poured some murram so that their presence avails. In actual sense, they are non-functional. This was the same in Agwak, Dokolo and in Mbale. Madam Speaker, the Agricultural Cluster Development Project has terribly failed under MAAIF. The ministry has constructed factories for cooperatives for cotton and other products across the country, where there is no electricity to run these factories, rendering these them mere white elephants abandoned in the areas where they were established. For instance, in West Nile, where they built a cassava drying and peeling plant which has never kicked off up to date. We observed that monitoring cotton, processing and marketing plus quality control requires swiftness and high-level efficiency, which can only be provided by a specialised and accredited agency like the Cotton Development Organisation. Madam Speaker, with the overwhelming demand for textile products in Uganda and abroad, the task ahead is so enormous that it requires empowering and supporting the Cotton Development Organisation (CDO) to mobilise farmers to grow more cotton, quality assurance, consolidate and build on its achievements. Mainstreaming CDO into the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), will lead to failure to promote quality and loss of market. The minority report notes that in countries like Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, which liberalised their cotton industry without setting up a regulator like CDO, the sub-sector collapsed. The minority report also observed that regulating on-farm and off-farm cotton activities is a function that requires full- time attention by a specialised agency that is internationally accredited. Such a role is not duplicated anywhere in the mandate of MAAIF or any other Government agency. Accreditation

14883 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2024 38.8 billion that formed the bulk of the commitment payments as a result of loans obtained for project support in the year under review; and b) Most of the projects, that incurred commitment fees over and above Shs 3 billion in the financial year included the Grid Rural Electrification, Opuyo-Moroto 132kv, and the upgrade of Rwenkunye- Apac-Lira Road under Islamic Development Bank (IDB)loans. We have put down in the table here –

When you look at the issue of absence of counterpart funding - if you look at Kidepo-Moroto Road, the Government of Uganda is supposed to contribute 5 per cent of the total cost. I think what we need to do next time is: before we approve such a loan, we should have proof that there is counterpart funding.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I wish to respond as the shadow minister of health in a short but very elaborate way that the problem of shortages of medicine in the country needs us to find well-defined solutions to settle; if you look at it from the angle of malaria, which is the biggest disease burden. In 2022, the World Health Organisation, which is an authority in matters of health, indicated in its report that there are 12.7 million cases of malaria in Uganda annually, meaning every day 34,000 Ugandans get sick with malaria. In the same report, 17,556 are estimated deaths, which means 48 Ugandans die daily of malaria. Malaria is a curable disease and that gives us a better understanding of what medicines we need in the country. I have been with the Committee on Health and we have gone through various hospitals in Northern Uganda, eastern and western. It hurts to get into those hospitals and knowing that 48 Ugandans die daily, you find no malaria drugs in those hospitals; in Padibe, Moroto and Kabale - yet the same drugs are on the shelves at National Medical Stores (NMS) in Entebbe. What is missing is the money to fuel a truck to transport the drug from the shelves in Entebbe to that distant health facility to save the life of the five-year-old child or the life of a mother. I looked at the documents of National Medical Stores, during the budget process, the cost of logistics for National Medical Stores is only 7 per cent. Our prayer has always been that the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development front-loads that money, 7 per cent is small. For a quarter, National Medical Stores needs 25 per cent. But this logistical support is only 7 per cent. They can do it in one quarter. MINISTERIAL STATEMENT

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I would like to join my colleagues to thank the committee for the good job. Moroto Regional Referral Hospital actually serves a big catchment, including parts of South Sudan and Kenya. The report indicates that there are lots of drug stock-outs and non- delivery of medical supplies to that particular facility. Also, the report notes that there is a reduction in releases to the referral hospital, particularly in Moroto. Amidst these huge health service needs of the region, you can be able to tell why the development indices are very dire in the region. This is one reason the Ministry of Health needs to take a keen interest in what is happening in Moroto Regional Referral Hospital. Two or three months ago, all the Karamoja leaders had an opportunity, together with the Secretary General of the NRM, to move around the hospital. You would attest to some of the reports that this particular committee has actually indicated. You realise that there is some key equipment that has not been installed. We had a scanner that had stayed outside of the building in which it is supposed to be housed, for close to about five months. Just imagine. In such a region where there are road traffic accidents, there is no scanner, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), people have to move to Soroti and Mbale. There is a need to look at this critical facility for the region. At the point when the Moroto Regional Referral Hospital is not providing services, St Kizito Hospital Matany has been very instrumental. This is a not-for-profit facility funded by donations from the Comboni Missionaries. When they were celebrating their 50 years, there was an appeal that they needed to be recapitalised. They asked the Government if they could be able to deal with the Shs 600 million debt that had accrued to the hospital. Therefore, there is a need for the ministry, together with the Office of the President, to recapitalise - part of the promise they made on that day of the Golden Jubilee was that they were going to recapitalise the hospital. That facility, which is not-for-profit is struggling. We need to see how we can help them. Thank you very much, Mr Speaker.

14402 STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT 33. That is where the Executive Director of the Student Loan Scheme comes from. We raised that matter in the COSASE report, I thought it would be taken but they have repeated it this year. This cannot be accepted. The Committee on Education and Sports must take this thing seriously. Mr Speaker, next week, give me ample time I want to present a detailed report, district by district, and you see. Even where you find they have given Moroto one, what is the course they have given? Science Education, Compound Engineering – (Laughter) - How? This must stop. I have a case of a student who was admitted to Mbarara University of Science and Technology for Electronic Engineering. He got 16 points, but he was not picked. Instead, they gave someone something which you cannot understand. Mr Speaker, those are the comments I wanted to make regarding this. But next week, give me the time. Thank you.

14406 STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT Listening to what the report says - and I want to thank Hon. Kivumbi for this – I will definitely agree with Hon. Kabanda. We must forward this report to the relevant authorities that have other action points. The CIID should sanction the Inspector General of Government (IGG). We cannot just talk and then leave at this point. We must take action like we have done with a few other reports. Number two, as a matter of policy, let the Minister of Education and Sports come out clearly that our young professors should not be retired at the age of 60 years. This is also in this report. Lastly, there is a constituent college of Gulu University in Karamoja. Ten years ago, the President established Mount Moroto University and wrote a detailed note on what kind of university he wanted in Karamoja. He said that: this university must specialise in water resources management and must look at the issue of minerals because Karamoja has over 50 commercial and industrial minerals. You should be asking us where the minerals are. We have also started on limestone. The limestone we have in Karamoja is said to be the quantity that can take Uganda 300 years. It is over 300 million metric tonnes and we have been relying on Hima with 23 million metric tonnes to handle this country. Why don’t we put that national university – (Member timed out.)

14414 STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT hospitals is the charge being placed on basic medical services that could ideally be so critical in diagnosing diseases; the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), other equipment and the scanners. They now charge everything to be accessed. This increase in NTR is basically because basic accessible medical equipment in all hospitals, today, is charged and that is a key point. It is not a positive on that note. People should not cheer up that NTR is in hospitals where you are charged when you want an x-ray, MRI and whatever equipment; those who cannot afford it, know what happens. NTR transfers to the Treasury The Auditor-General noted that two entities, including Uganda Blood Transmission Services and Moroto Regional Referral, did not transfer their NTR to the Treasury. On the other hand, only six entities, including Mbale, Jinja, Gulu, Hoima, Kawempe, Soroti regional hospitals and the Uganda Cancer Institute transferred all their collected NTR to the Treasury. The committee observed that underperformance in NTR negatively affects the implementation of planned activities. The committee further noted that accounting officers who did not meet their budgeted NTR targets or budget for NTR at all contravened Instruction 4.10.2 of the Treasury Instructions, 207. Further, the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development failed to provide proper revenue targets to some regional referral hospitals. In other instances, low NTR targets were set ignoring other revenue sources like hospital private wings. Committee recommendation 1. NTR targets should be set in consultation with both the accounting officers and the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to enable realistic NTR budgeting; 2. The accounting officers should institute mechanisms to ensure that all billed NTR is fully collected during the period in which it relates; 3. The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development should always make prompt responses to requests for NTR revision by entities; and 4. The accounting officers should consider all their NTR sources at NTR budgeting to avoid cases of NTR under collection. Performance of Government Warrants The Auditor-General reported that the Government had allocated a total budget of Shs 558.107 billion to 19 regional referral hospitals and five specialised health institutions, out of which Shs 584.681 billion was warranted, which is 98.31 per cent, implying a shortfall of Shs 9.426 billion, which is only two per cent. The detailed breakdown of this figure per hospital is under Table 2 of the main report. The committee noted that 16 entities received less than their budget. These include Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital, Mulago National Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda Heart Institute, Kiruddu, Butabika, Masaka, Entebbe, Mbale, Naguru, Jinja, Mubende, Kabale, Mbarara, Gulu, Lira and Moroto Regional Referrals. The committee observed that revenue shortfalls inhibited the effective implementation of the entity’s planned activities and thus affecting service delivery. Revenue shortfalls further place spending pressures on entities, which promotes diversion and mischarge of funds. The committee recommends that the Government should always fully release funds as approved and in a timely manner to all referral hospitals. Utilisation of warrants Many accounting officers attributed their underutilisation of resources - where we put ACT - you go to the main report - to late releases of resources from the ministry for

14324 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT MOTION FOR ADOPTION OF THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DEFENCE AND INTERNAL AFFAIRS ON THE SECURITY SITUATION IN THE DISTRICTS OF MOROTO, KAABONG AND ABIM

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Before I report to the House, I would like to lay the reports of the Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs on the security situation in the districts of Moroto, Kaabong, and Abim. I beg to lay. Together we have attached the minutes and attendance list. Thank you. We have two main bodies of this report. We have the executive summary and the main report. Therefore, I beg your indulgence on whether to proceed with the executive summary or present the full report.

14325 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2024 generation’s mind-set while effectively reducing the cultural sentiment of “warriorism”. ii. The Uganda Police Force should increase its presence in this region to effectively maintain law and order within Uganda’s territorial borders as mandated by law. Uganda Police Force should be provided with mobility facilities such as pick-ups and motorcycles in the subcounties of the Karamoja region. iii. The Government should expedite the joint border demarcation with South Sudan to protect Uganda’s territorial integrity and mitigate security threats from South Sudan’s armed forces. The demarcation should follow existing treaties, orders, colonial maps and coordinates to minimise conflict. iv. Uganda People’s Defence Forces and Uganda Police Force should intensify patrols along the porous borders to safeguard the border and surrounding communities and increase border security. v. Uganda Wildlife Authority should intervene to contain poaching activities and address the issue of stray wild animals to Kidepo National Park to protect the lives and property of the surrounding communities. TOR 2: To establish the causes and effects of the recurring cattle wrestling and related crimes. The committee recommends that; i. The Government should persist in supporting peace dialogues meetings and involving the Karachuna in the skilling programmes that extend beyond Moroto. This will provide alternative sources of livelihood since most of the land in Karamoja is reserved and under the control of Uganda Wildlife Authority as part of the national park. The Government should consider freeing up some arable land for the youth to engage in commercial agriculture. It should also provide machinery for those who are already skilled. ii. The Government should allocate funds for the desilting of the Morungole and Longoromit dams as they are crucial water reservoirs in the Karamoja region. Having sufficient water sources helps to minimise conflicts that could escalate into armed conflicts among pastoralists. iii. The Government should install more freshwater points required by the security forces in the strategic areas in the Karamoja region. This will facilitate the effective deployment of security forces and rapid responses in all security threat areas. TOR 3: To establish the actors that are still armed and continue to engage in armed conflicts. The committee recommends that; i. The UPDF should establish a brigade in Kaabong due to its strategic location within the porous borders of South Sudan and Kenya to curb the proliferation of illegal arms through this area. ii. The Government should increase the quota allocation for Karamoja in the UPDF recruitments to integrate more Karamojong people into the army. The Karamojong are natural warriors, and assimilating their natural abilities into the army, where they can best contribute, would reduce redundancy and potentially discourage cattle raiding and armed conflicts in Karamoja. iii. The youth who were innocently arrested and detained by the UPDF should be screened and released back into the community after reconciliation and dialogues between the UPDF and the affected families. iv. The Government should provide tractors to organised groups in Acholi, Lango and Karamoja subregions to cultivate vast lands for commercial agriculture, creating alternative livelihoods for the youth.

Thank you very much. Mr Speaker, allow me to also thank the committee for having recommended a lot about Karamoja, and particularly in the districts of Kaabong, Abim, and Moroto. I come from Kaabong. The committee has done a lot on prevention but one fact has not come out. As a result of cattle rustling, the people of Karamoja and particularly in Kaabong, lost nearly all their animals. What is biting in the region, particularly Kaabong where I come from, is rural poverty. A family has failed to open land. Opening land is normally by use of oxen and because people have lost all their animals, no food can be produced because they have to use local tools. Mr Speaker, what has not come out here is the question of compensation. I do not know if I have ever heard about it. In Kaabong District, we had up to a tune of 180,000 cows by 2014 but by January, we had less than 7,000 cows. All had been raided to Kenya and to the neighbouring districts. The other factor is the question of giving tractors; this needs to be expedited. Mr Speaker, what could have solved the whole problem is, since I came to Parliament, we have been asking for the establishment of a deployment brigade in Kaabong. If that had been done, no animal would have gone. Kaabong District has porous borders; it is bordered by Kenya and South Sudan. With the deployment of the UPDF, the issue of guns can be contained. I want to mention two incidents that have been very painful in the past two weeks. On 27 th August 2024, at around 10.00 p.m. in Narube Primary School, armed thugs broke into the primary school and got the teacher on duty, moreover, a head teacher pulled him out of the house and shot him dead. His wife is in hospital. Before that happened, two months ago, along the Kamion-Nawontos-Kenya border, a boda boda rider who had been operating in Kakuma and then Kaabong was also intercepted. They took millions of his money and then slaughtered him. They hid his body far away from the road and he was recovered seven days later. This has not been a good thing for the isolated armed warriors. We feel that if a brigade is expedited - it has been recommended, all right, but if it is expedited, then the rest of the people can be saved. I rest my case. Thank you very much.

Thank you, General. I now put the question that the report of the Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs on the security situation in the districts of Moroto, Kaabong, and Abim be adopted. (Question put and agreed to.)

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support the motion, which was moved by the honourable minister, Hon. Peter Ogwang, who also attended the burial. I attended that burial - it was very painful to hear what the late Sgt Cheptegei went through. After hearing all that was said at that burial, I really pity men; how can you burn a woman? In my culture, a woman is just a child. So, I request men to make use of your money and sweat - not only Kenyan men but even Ugandan men. There are women here dying because of the pressure you give them. According to the research I did after the death of Sgt Rebecca Cheptegei, number one, Uganda has good training sites but some facilities are missing. We need to improve the facilities in that training centre. When you ask Ugandans - because I travelled up to Eldoret, and I was able to meet a few Ugandans there. There is a boy from Amudat District who decided to leave Uganda and is training from Eldoret. He said that in Uganda, the officials who take them through segregate them. When you do not have a godfather or anybody in this Government, with a reputation, no one considers you. The majority of our children are escaping to Kenya due to the lack of good conditions. We need to improve on that. I think our Government, especially our President, H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who did a lot during the day of the burial. Let me take this opportunity to thank the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF), the army commanders, especially those at the third division whose head office is in Moroto. They came and accorded our sister a state burial, which was good, and also the contribution from the President. I also take this opportunity to thank the Kenyan Government, because they helped us with the hospital bills, they brought the body of our sister and handed it to us. Finally, in the field of athletes, we have so many hills in Uganda. There are some places where we have people who can run very well, but we have not gone down to the lower levels to investigate. For example, when you go to Karamoja, you can attest. I come from Karamoja, but the name “Che” – the Speaker said if you know the “Chelain”. (Laughter) So, I am from Karamoja region. Mr Speaker, in Karamoja, our boys, when there were still those wars, could cross over 100 kilometres in a minute - (Laughter) - Yes, these people can run. I am just giving you an example. They can run with a cow from Moroto and, within minutes, they are already in Amudat. So, those are good people whom if we take – this one goes to the honourable minister. He is very aware and he knows them. Honourable minister, you are among them – those ones who run with the cows. (Laughter) He is my neighbour. So let us take interest in bringing all our children on board.

Mr Speaker, I move this motion to address two fundamental matters. One, that the Government of Uganda has not had a policy on compulsory boarding education for a long time. Number two, this policy is the next level of the mental disarmament that we talk about in Karamoja. Most of you may not know that Karamoja, since the coming of colonialists into Uganda, was not provided with any form of education. In 1898, when the British came to Karamoja, they encountered the people of Nyakwae in Napak District. One of them, called John Patrick, who was trying to rape a woman, was killed. From that time, Karamoja was closed and made a human zoo. There was no education until Independence in 1961, when the first secondary school was built in Moroto, called Moroto High School. Karamoja is starting a race that the rest of the country has run for the last 100 years. Most of you come from constituencies - even here in Acholi - that have schools celebrating 100 years. We are just beginning education in Karamoja. Up to today, a number of parishes, Mr Speaker, do not have primary schools. When the First Lady came to Karamoja, about 13 primary boarding schools were built between 2013 and 2016, and because of the boarding schools and school feeding programmes, suddenly the enrolment rate started rising. I mentioned, in the motion, that the transition rate from primary to secondary, especially for the boy-child, jumped very high by seven per cent. Unfortunately for the girl-child, the statistics we have from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics show that it only moved by 1.3 per cent. Therefore, for every 100 girls that go to [Mr Achia] MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

14179 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA FRIDAY, 30 AUGUST 2024 primary one, only 12 finish primary seven and go to secondary. For the boys, 25 of them finish primary school and go to secondary school. Where do the rest go? Mr Speaker, there is a recruitment programme that goes on in Karamoja, and some of us are the survivors of it. When a boy is born, they initiate you - like you would take a child for baptism - into looking after goats, cows, going to the kraal, and to a lifestyle that prepares you for warrior-hood; to be a man, as we call it, and to be initiated into another life. Just like the church does confirmation when you reach a certain age, the Karamojong also confirm young boys, the ones you call the Karashuna , into a different lifestyle. This motion, Mr Speaker, is the next level of disarmament. We have done physical disarmament; the removal of guns from the hands of the young people. Most of them are under 18 years. However, the biggest population of the young men, and those who are growing up, are not mentally disarmed. Gen. Elwelu talked about it in his speech in Moroto. We need to move to the next level of disarmament; the mental disarmament and mind-set change. Mr Speaker, if the country can accept to give them free compulsory boarding education - This is a security matter, colleagues, because of the young men who are recruited into this reckless lifestyle of running around. The people of Acholi, Lango, Teso, Bugisu, and Sebei have suffered, and they also suffer because of the impact of the South Sudanese and the Turkana from Kenya. The cows they take from this region do not all stay in Karamoja. They end up in South Sudan and Kenya. There is constant violent conflict in Karamoja because they do not think of any other form of lifestyle. If compulsory boarding education is implemented, it should be an operational matter. It should be looked at from a security point of view. We must stop this recklessness by ensuring that the young boys go to school. This will disarm them mentally. The idea of removing guns is like me losing this pen. I know how to read and write. I and all the MPs here; do you think we do not know how to use those guns? Just because I do not have it does not mean I do not know how to use it. The fact that you do not have this pen does not mean that you do not know how to use it. We need the next level of disarmament, and that means we must create an operation where the security forces are involved in ensuring that we provide facilities for these young men to be retained in school, and continue with education. The second aspect, before I sit down, Mr Speaker, is that for the girl-child it is worse. Most girls are married off at 14 to 15 years for cows. And what happens? A child goes to produce another child. Looking at the statistics, the maternal mortality rate in Karamoja is 558 today per 1000. The figure in the country is 36 per 1000. In Karamoja, young children who are forced to be mothers die. 558 for every 1,000 die. For the country average, it is 36. Therefore, this early marriage is also a dimension of worsening infant mortality, the under-five mortality, maternal mortality, and all the health-related issues. By doing this, we can delay the marriage time for young girls, address the question of insecurity and health permanently, and cause a change for that part of the country and also the rest of the neighbours to rest. Honourable colleagues, support me in this motion. Let us work together to permanently change the situation in Karamoja and in that part of the country. I would like to submit, Mr Speaker. Thank you.

Mr Speaker, we have the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which is being practiced among the Pokot of Amudat and the Tepeth of Moroto Districts. These children are always in the villages and are prone to FGM. Therefore, having boarding schools will enable these children to stay at school and get a profitable education. Mr Speaker, I implore you to support this motion so that the Government formulates a policy for boarding school education in Karamoja so that the problems of Karamoja, be it economic, education, service delivery in as far as education is concerned, are addressed once and for all. Thank you, Mr Speaker.

14186 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT In 2011, while I was campaigning in Matany, I picked a young boy called Alex Lochero who was in P6 by then. I took him to Kampala and paid his school fees. He graduated with BBA and is now working in Moroto. Those young people are only missing the opportunity to go to school and we must support them. Two weeks ago, when the Speaker sent us to Karamoja, I interacted with the LCV Chairperson of Napak. Napak has 59 parishes but only 22 have got primary schools. 37 parishes of Napak do not have a primary school. It produces 80 per cent children who are on the streets in Kampala because they do not have education. I am very supportive that we not only provide compulsory boarding education but also, schools all over Karamoja. There should be an affirmative action which should help the Karamojong to go to school. We are losing brains which would have innovated. Mr Speaker, I stand to support this motion and it should be with urgency. Thank you.

Much obliged, Mr Speaker. As guided, pursuant to rules 159(c) and 189(e) of the Rules of Procedure, the Sectoral Committee on Tourism, Trade and Industry, between the 13 th and 15 August 2024, conducted a field activity to appraise the state of the following tourism sites and to consider related matters: The first is Kabalega and Mwanga Monumental Site in Dokolo District. The others are Barlonyo Massacre Site in Lira District; Mary Mother of the Church Shrine in Iceme, Oyam District; Aboke Massacre Site in Oyam District; Sir Samuel Baker`s Fort, Patiko, Gulu District; and Amuru Hot Springs in Amuru District. The committee also acknowledges and prioritises, for subsequent oversights, the heritage sites in Gulu-Gulu Hills in Amuro; Napak Fossil Site in Napak; Emin Pasha Fort Site in Wadelai in Pakwach; Karamoja Museum in Moroto; Dufile Heritage Site in Moyo; Tien Olum footprints site in Ibuja-Kokoro in Lango; Palabek in Lamwo; Lototoro in Lamwo; Agoro Hills in Acholi; Abiyam Memorial Site in Lango; Nziri Tomb in West Nile; Winam Old Palace in West Nile; and Arua Museum in West Nile. Those are 19 sites in total. The terms of references, I already indicated. To save time, I will go straight to the methodology. But okay, I will also not go through it, but it is important to mention that the committee conducted a desk review on a comparative analysis of investment sites in three East African community countries. One, the committee noted that for the management and administration of museums and monuments in Uganda, we are guided by the Museums and Monuments Act of 2023. Mr Speaker, Uganda also has a tourism policy of 2015, which prioritises four areas, national parks, cultural heritage sites, Lake Victoria, mountains, and community-based tourism. The focus of this report is on cultural heritage sites. We also compared the tourist visits to museums and monuments in East Africa. We noted that in

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I would like to submit on only three points. While I want to thank the chairperson of the committee, I would like to focus on three aspects of the report. One is on the infrastructure. Moroto Road is a tourism road. It connects people to Gotodek, Barlonyo, and Ambrosoli Shrines. But Odek Bridge itself is just about five rains from being washed away. I want to draw this to the attention of the committee and the whole House because it is a national road. Secondly, in the plan to tarmac Moroto Road, they have only given Omoro two kilometres of tarmac. It would be our prayer that the cultural institutions are taken care of. If you were to visit the residence of Puranga, one of the biggest chiefdoms in Acholi, you would notice that the road to there is in a deplorable state; if they could extend some tarmac to that route, which goes to the residence of that cultural leader. Thirdly, on the issue of a tourism-centric nation. When you are coming to Uganda, it is not the destination. It is not that you are going to Got Odek, but you will go through the market vendors, hotel providers, and transport service providers. It is the whole system. What is Uganda’s readiness to make sure we are all able to welcome our visitors? Why I would visit a place because of how I feel I was treated. It is not at that hotel, but how I was treated outside that will make me come back. Therefore, I implore the committee to look at building the capacity of the nation to be tourism-centric. I beg to submit.

Thank you. Honourable colleagues, we are resuming. Next item. MOTION FOR ADOPTION OF THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DEFENCE AND INTERNAL AFFAIRS ON THE SECURITY SITUATION IN THE DISTRICTS OF MOROTO, KAABONG AND ABIM

14227 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA FRIDAY, 30 AUGUST 2024 In our recommendations, the key one is that due to the huge burden of sickle cell disease, Lira Regional Referral Hospital needs to be equipped with an electrophoresis sickle cell testing machine to avoid the transport – or having the samples sent to Kampala for testing. Karamoja subregion We noted that in terms of the burden of disease – there were also cases of mortality – there was a high malaria burden and, in addition, we also noticed that there were high cases of liver cirrhosis. This was mainly attributed to two factors: Hepatitis B infection; and alcoholism – as reported to us. On the specific findings on distribution of health facilities, Karamoja has a population of 1.4 million with three general hospitals that are Government’s, two private not-for-profit facilities and one private for-profit facility. Notably, we were informed that one of the private not-for-profit facilities, Matany Hospital in Napak district, was facing financial constraints due to an impending total withdrawal of funding from the Italian funders. We have recommended that the Government should consider taking over Matany Hospital as a Government facility, plus planning for other health centres IV and III. The status of infrastructure Mr Speaker, this is one of the areas where there were big challenges in Karamoja subregion. We noted several buildings within Moroto Regional Referral Hospital that were dilapidated, having been constructed in 1948. Also, they did not have a functional mortuary and, therefore, have to rely on Mbale and Soroti regional referral hospitals. They, also, did not have a functional ICU despite having the equipment, because they did not have the space. In addition, they had the highest rate of caesarean section. What is acceptable is that for every 100 mothers that come, a maximum of 15 should undergo a caesarean section for delivery. However, the figures were as high as 45 per cent, and this was attributed to non- functionality of some of the theatres in the health centres IV. We also noted that one of the big constraints in terms of infrastructure development is because they were not among the major beneficiaries of Uganda Government Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers (UgIFT) programme because they had the Karamoja Infrastructure Development Plan, which delayed to commence and, as a result, many of the health centres II have not been upgraded to the level of health centres III. We also noted that Abim Hospital and Kotido General Hospital had not received the required funds for renovation. For example, Abim, since 1968, has never had any renovation. We also found out that the facility did not have any water supply available. So, we recommend the provision of the necessary funds. Notably, Abim Hospital did not have three-phase power, which was critical for running some of the equipment that they have within the lab and, also, in the imaging. Status of human resource On the status of human resource – these are the same observations that we made across the subregion. However, notable was that there were staff working in critical areas, majorly as volunteers without substantive appointment. As regards the status of diagnostic services, we noted that the digital X-ray in Abim Hospital has not been functional for the last seven years. This is a new digital X-ray machine, but because of lack of three-phase power, it has never been installed. The ICU is also not functional despite having 10 ICU beds that were delivered there two years ago. Therefore, there is need for intervention on the diagnostic services. As regards availability and utilisation of medicines and supplies, we noted that,

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. I join my colleagues to thank the committee for having carried out the field activity and coming up with a report that has identified challenges and given recommendations on how to solve the problems regarding the sector of health in Northern Karamoja. I disagree with the report on the aspect that states that Karamoja does not face drug shortages. Karamoja equally faces drug stocks- out. There are cases whereby you go to the referral hospital and you are told to buy gloves, bandages, and all the drugs to treat a patient. That states that Karamoja also faces drug shortages. These drug shortages are mostly caused by the noncompliance of the National Medical Stores to deliver drugs to the health facilities as required by the policy. Secondly, in the Financial Year 2022/2023, the Ministry of Health gave Moroto Regional Referral Hospital an Oxygen Plant and contracted the UPDF Engineering Brigade to do the construction of the plant. The plant was meant to produce 100 cylinders of oxygen in 24 hours to facilitate all the health centres in the region. The construction was supposed to take one year. After the UPDF Engineering Brigade finished the construction, the oxygen plant equipment was brought. However, it was realised later that some of the oxygen plant equipment would not fit the structure that was already in place, leaving some of the equipment outside, exposed to harsh weather conditions. To date, that has not been rectified. Yet, the referral hospital reported that to the ministry. I request that the ministry quickly intervenes to make sure that the design of the structure is rectified such that the equipment that was meant to get in, gets in, in order for the plant to start functioning to serve the Karimojongs. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Good job to the chairperson and his team - the committee - for that report. I would like to draw my attention to the issue of the ICU. Mr Speaker, you have seen how far Northern Uganda is from the Central, where most of the functional Intensive Care Units are. If you look at Moroto, Lira, Gulu and Arua regional referral hospitals, these are very far places and we all know what an ICU does. What we have in place are not ICUs. The equipment is there, but we have high- dependency units. A few months ago, we lost a patient in Karamoja, and in my opinion, as a doctor, we should not have lost that lady. We had to transport her all the way from Moroto, Soroti, Mbale, and Jinja, regional hospitals, without functional ICUs until Mulago. She was still alive by God’s grace, but she eventually passed on. Therefore, these are the things we need to be addressing ourselves to. The other one is dialysis. The health committee two years ago set up dialysis in Mbarara, Mbale and Lira, and the plan was to eventually roll out, but I think because of funding this financial year, it was captured as an unfunded priority. As a matter of urgency, we need to have dialysis at regional level hospitals. Adjumani General Hospital, like the woman MP said, is operating in a very dilapidated structure, and it needs urgent attention, at least the maternity unit. Mr Speaker, as I conclude, I am happy that the Committee on Public Service will address the issues of recruitment, but some of these health centres IV, like Pajule, have medical officers who have not been formalised into service, and they want to leave. When you ask the district local government, there is local government politics involved. Honourable members, we need to also discern the fact that part of the health system, the biggest bulk, is in the local government. Therefore, recruitment is a function of the District Service Commission. The contractor of the seven-story building in Gulu is being taken to court because of Shs 3 billion that has not been paid out by the Government. As a matter of urgency, can we please find this money for both Arua Regional Hospital and Gulu Regional Referral Hospitals, for their staff complexes. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. This Transitional Justice Bill is actually very critical. Our President has been talking about why we ignore our traditional justice systems. Why do we ignore those traditional justice systems that work like mato oput ? This Bill will help us to bring those cultures that are positive and are in consonant with the Constitution, so that the burden of backlog in the courts of Uganda is resolved. The issue of bargaining and the visibility of the victims as it is always in our traditional justice systems, that the victim participates in the resolution of conflict because our African tradition is that when there is a conflict, you must make good for that conflict. You must restore justice because you are going to stay with your neighbour. The foundation of this Bill is on restorative justice. In the case of Karamoja, this Bill is long overdue because we are disposing thousands of cases in the villages without even the need of the courts. That is why some of the courts in Moroto are redundant. I need this Bill, the people of Uganda need this Bill, and the people of Karamojong need this Bill. I support it.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I would like to present the addendum as per the Karamoja region; the discussions related to the infrastructure report of yesterday. Karamoja region identified key roads that need to be included in the report as follows: i) Moroto-Kotido Kaabong-Karenga Road; ii) Soroti–Amuria–Abim–Kotido Road; iii) Nakapiripirit–Amudat–Alakas Road that is joining to Kenya; iv) Lokitanyala-Loroo-Amudat-Karita Road; v) Napak–Kapelebyong Road, opening the region to Teso; vi) Rehabilitation of Moroto-Soroti Road; vii) Moroto-Nakiloro-Nakabaat Road, opening the region to Kenya; viii) Kotido-Loyoro–Kaabong Road; ix) Kaabong–Timu–Loitanit Road, again opening the region to Kenya; x) K a a b o n g – T i m u – L o k a l a p a t a – Nawountos; xi) Kalapata–Pire; xii) Karenga–Bira, opening the region to South Sudan; xiii) Abim-Napak via Turtuko is an internal road, but very important; and xiv) Kotido-Abim-Otuke-Alebtong-Lira. The region also considered the security and trade roads as very important, namely: i) Kotido–Agago; ii) Kotido–Karenga; iii) Kotido–Nakitongo, that is opening the eastern part of Kenya; iv) Morunyang-Majimoto, again the eastern part of Kenya; v) Nabilatuk-Katakwi which is the Magoro Road; vi) Kaabong–Karenga; vii) Kaabong–Kitgum via Lolelia; viii) Lopelpel-Lokwakipi-Narengnya, that is a ring road around the mountain; ix) Namalu–Nabilatuk–Lokapel; x) Lotome–Korisae Nabwal-Magoro, that is the Teso side; xi) Amudat–Komerimeri; xii) Lokwanamoru–Amuria; xiii) Alerek-Okemer Road; xiv) Alerek–Kacheri–Karenga; and xv) Iriir-Nabwal–Natirae; The key bridges that we propose to be included are: i) Lotome Bridge, that is between Napak and Nabilatuk; ii) Lolachat Bridge, that is between Nabilatuk and Moroto; iii) Lions Bridge, that is between Abim and Napak, which has been claiming many lives; iv) Nakonyen Bridge, between Moroto and Amudat; v) Okemer Bridge, between Abim and Kotido; vi) Nakirianget Bridge, between Mbale and Nakapiripirit; vii) Lodoket angisigiria, that is between Kaabong and Karenga; viii) Koberyo Bridge, that is between Kaabong and Karenga again; ix) Nataa bridges, that is between Nabilatuk and Moroto; x) Komatheniko Bridge, between Moroto and Kotido;

14100 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT xi) Napiananya, between Nakapiripirit and Mbale; xii) Kocomin/Nacomin Bridge, that is between Amudat and Nabilatuk; xiii) Karita Bridge, between Amudat and Kween; xiv) Dingdinga Bridge between Amudat and West Pokot, which is a part of Kenya; xv) Nabokotom Bridge between Amudat and West Pokot, which is at the URA border point; and xvi) Dopeth Bridge between Kotido and Abim. In terms of the aerodromes, the region considered: i) Nadunget Airfield in Moroto which needs to be upgraded; ii) Amudat Airstrip; iii) Morulem Airstrip in Abim; and iv) Kotido Airstrip. This is the addendum that the region considered to be included in the infrastructure report. Thank you.

14107 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 29 AUGUST 2024 We also recognise and appreciate the decision to elevate three municipalities into cities. These are notably; Gulu, Lira, and Arua cities plus Moroto which is not yet operationalised, but it was passed. This elevation status has created immense opportunities for the region, which, if properly harnessed, will bolster the development of this area. Your Excellency, we also recognise that northern Uganda is not a homogeneous society. The different subregions within northern Uganda have peculiar realities which impact on their growth and development. However, there are cross cutting realities notably; the post war recovery, the high level of poverty and ever growing youth population a fair number of which are unemployed, a large track of arable land, averse national resources, the high influx of refugees, environmental degradation, limited transport infrastructure, heavy reliance on subsistence agriculture, limited value addition to agricultural output, retrogressive cultural practices such as cattle rustling, and the subjection of women and girl child, the enormous water resources, lack of health facilities and lack of enough schools. For instance, if you look at Gulu, Gulu City does not have a Senior five, A-level school. While we have a number of issues that affect each and every area that is; West Nile, Acholi, Lango and Karamoja. Then delayed compensation of war victims and lack of compensation for the land that was taken over during the insurgency. Your Excellency, the sitting specifically took cognisance of the need for mindset change as a major catalyst for increased production and social-economic transformation in the northern region. In addition, the House recognised the need to embrace viable cash crops, livestock agriculture, agricultural mechanisation and value addition, and sustainable organic farming, among others. The Sitting recognised the importance of reliable transport and communication infrastructure as an enabler of growth and development. To this end, Members raised the need for the rehabilitation and development of strategic national roads infrastructure in the different regions notably; Moroto-Kotido- Kaabong-Karenga Road, Koboko-Yumbe- Moyo Road, Kitgum-Kidepo Road, Nebbi- Goli-Paidha-Zombo-Warr-Vurra Road. They are very many of them plus bridges and we shall hand it over to you. Including our famous Karuma Bridge that is about to give way. Your Excellency, at the end of this Sitting, I will submit to you a memorandum detailing the specifics of the areas of concern that this House has passed, that the committees found on ground and need to be worked on in the northern region. Members noted the need to work to ensure the success of the prevailing government development initiatives such as Emyooga . The 4-acre model may not be vital in this area because we have all the land. What we need is to do mechanisation, provide some funds in societies, create market for these products, identify the cash crops to be grown in this area to have a participatory approach to what is being done in this area and have a micro- credit scheme by adapting such programmes to local realities in order to achieve meaningful outcomes in the region. Your Excellency, at the end of the Sitting, we will transmit these resolutions for your relevant action as the Chief Finance Minister of this country. All these relate to finances. Our work is to find out what is lacking but at the end of the day, it all comes back to the Chief Finance Minister who is none other than your good self. As the leadership of the Legislature, we intend to have the regional sittings as a salient aspect of our legislative culture and vision of taking Parliament to the people. We, being a people- centred Parliament, we believe in evidence- based legislation and this can ably be done by our committees who go to the ground and find out what is happening there and report back to Parliament. Your Excellency, I now take the singular honour to invite you to address the House and

14116 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT Honourable members, following the extensive deliberations that we have had on the state of transport infrastructure in the northern region, the minister will hand over our issues to the President for onward action to be taken, especially on issues of the critical roads; national roads, bridges, waterways and the air drones in this region. It is our plea, Your Excellency, that we work on this. As the Fountain of Honour, we know there is nothing impossible; you will handle it. We want to put the northern region at the level of other regions. We should be able to put - As the Parliament of Uganda, our focus is on the northern region. We want the northern region - Much as the peace has come, we want peace to be in the pockets there as well. We want to thank you. I now take this singular honour to invite Your Excellency to speak to the Members of Parliament, to the people of northern region and by extension, to the country. THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA (Gen. (Rtd) Yoweri Kaguta Museveni): The Rt Hon. Speaker of Parliament, all the distinguished persons who are here, I thank Parliament for passing a motion recognising the work of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) and the National Resistance Movement (NRM), in pacifying northern Uganda and the whole country. What you need to know - it is important for you if you are going to make a useful contribution - is that the ability of the UPDF to do what has defied other Governments - because the security of Karamoja was not new at all. It had been there even in colonial times and only got worse after 1979 when the Matheniko, one of the tribes of Karamoja, looted arms in the Moroto barracks after the Amin soldiers ran away. They were able to get automatic weapons, which they did not have before. Otherwise, the security was there all the time, even in colonial times. The reason we are able to do these tasks is because of three things, which, if you are interested, you could listen to: Number one is ideology. Hon. Jesca Ababiku is telling you, which I do not hear many people talking about, that by 1986, 500,000 people from West Nile were in exile in South Sudan and Congo. Uganda was number four in the whole world in the export of refugees. It was competing with Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and I think Sudan. What had the West Nilers run away from? From ideological bankruptcy. You remember I was part of the group fighting Idi Amin. Nobody can say he fought Idi Amin more than I did. As we were fighting Idi Amin, we always told our people and everybody, “Look here, do not blame the mistakes of Idi Amin on all the West Nilers” because of all these things Amin was doing, he did not consult the people in West Nile, the villagers. He was doing them with a small clique of idiots. So, do not blame the people of West Nile for this. Even when we were fighting the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), it was the same. We told our cadres not to blame the people of northern Uganda: Acholi, and Lango, for the mistakes of Obote. Distinguish between the misleaders and the misled. This is the line of the NRM. Always make a distinction between the misleaders who are few, and the misled who are many, even if they are misled. In many cases, most of the masses are not even involved at all. It is small groups of people. When we defeated Amin in 1979, we had formed the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF), which was like NRM. We were telling these people, “Please wait, you are UPC and you are Democratic Party (DP)” - Catholics for DP, Protestants for UPC. Please give us a holiday, let us have a united group; UNLF.” but they would not listen. They took advantage of the fact that we had our Tanzanian brothers here who did not know our situation. They moved and they brought back the bankruptcy of the old politics of sectarianism. [The Speaker] ADDRESS BY H.E. THE PRESIDENT OF UGANDA

Honourable members, we are going to have this annually, by God’s grace. Now, if this time we have sat in Gulu, next time we will sit in another place in the North. After the first round of four regions, the next one will be in another place. We shall not repeat it in Gulu. So, you never know, it may come to Moroto or Lira. We can even take it to Hon. Avur’s constituency.

14029 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 28 AUGUST 2024 from the sitting about the Moroto Road. Thank you.

Madam Speaker, in accordance with Article 90 of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda and rules 159(c), (d), (e), (f) and 189 of the Rules of Procedure of Parliament of Uganda, the Parliamentary Committee on Physical Infrastructure is mandated to exercise oversight and ensure effective utilisation of resources and implementation of policies related to physical infrastructure development. In fulfilment of this mandate, the committee embarked on a field visit to Northern Uganda from the 4 th to 10 th August 2024, to assess the status of roads, bridges, aerodromes and railways in the region. The visit aimed to evaluate the condition, usage and maintenance of transport infrastructure, with a focus on roads, bridges, aerodromes and the railway. The committee sought to gather fast-hand information on the progress of the ongoing projects, identify challenges and determine necessary interventions to improve the region’s infrastructure. This report presents the findings and recommendations of the committee aligning with its oversight role and contributing to informed decision making for the development of Northern Uganda transport infrastructure. The committee visited the following sites: a) Karuma Bridge; b) Pakwach Bridge; c) Masindi Port Bridge; d) Karuma-Olwiyo-Pakwach Road; e) Rwenkunye-Apac-Lira-Puranga-Acholi Bur Road; f) Tororo-Mbale-Soroti-Lira-Kamdini Road; g) Tororo-Gulu Railway Line; h) The Regional Mechanical Workshop and Logistics; and i) Moroto Road. Madam Speaker, this report presents a critical opportunity for lawmakers to address the transportation challenges in Northern Uganda. The committee’s field visit focused on evaluating the current state of integrated transport infrastructure and services, identifying key bottlenecks, and engaging with local stakeholders to understand their experiences and perspectives.

14048 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT This implies that under Force Account, the money can maintain 18 kilometres, while under framework contract, all the money would maintain only 1.8 kilometres of the entire road. The committee recommends that the Government prioritises the maintenance of national roads to reduce on rehabilitation costs of early reconstruction of non-maintained roads. Encroachment on road reserves Madam Speaker, on encroachment on road reserves, like the honourable colleague mentioned, the committee was informed by UNRA that one of the challenges faced by the station is encroachment on road reserves and other property, especially those under the Kitgum station. The committee was concerned that, currently, the mitigation measures by UNRA are encouraging staff to be more vigilant in identifying encroachers during the inspection. The committee was further informed that the UNRA enforcement unit did not have staff at every station and, therefore, there was need for them at all stations for faster response to encroachment. The committee recommends that UNRA provides enforcement staff at each station and, where necessary, evacuates some encroachers from its property as a deterrent example to prospective encroachers. Madam Speaker, allow me to briefly get to the recommendations of the committee in that respect. 1. UNRA should consider engaging public- private partnership – this is in respect to the request which was placed by the Karuma business community about the health facilities – the restroom facilities – at the town council. They said that UNRA should consider engaging public-private partnership to establish restrooms along national roads to ensure that Ugandans and tourists along the roads do not get embarrassed. 2. UNRA should consider establishing bus stop sheds along the roads. Oil roads and other strategic roads in northern Uganda The committee observed that the oil roads in Nwoya District have not yet received the requisite attention and maintenance. The poor condition of these roads is not only hindering the smooth transportation of oil equipment and personnel but also affecting the livelihoods of local communities who rely on these roads for their daily activities. Through sharing with stakeholders, the committee was informed that there are a number of strategic roads that need to be attended to, so as to enhance interconnectivity of the road network in the northern region. These roads offer substantial economic and social benefits to the region. Awer-Amuru-Otwee-Kololo Road – the gateway to West Nile at Rhino Camp This road serves as a vital link connecting Nwoya and Amuru districts to the West Nile region. By connecting communities to the ferry at Kololo and providing access to Rhino Camp, this route is essential for boosting regional trade, enhancing market access, and catalysing cross-district commerce. Moroto Road (through Omoro to Pader, Agago, and Abim in Karamoja) This road is key to unlocking the economic potential of the subregion, connecting Omoro, Pader, Agago, and Abim districts up to Moroto. Upgrading it to a high-grade tarmac road will facilitate the efficient movement of agricultural produce, lower transport costs, and stimulate regional trade. This road is essential for attracting investments in agriculture, education, and other key sectors, driving inclusive growth, and enhancing socio-economic outcomes for communities in these districts.

Thank you. Honourable members, in the VIP Gallery we have the Crown Prince of Aringa Kingdom, that is, Ingamule Adnan Doka. He is here to witness the proceedings. We also have: i) Hon. Akol Sizza, the District Speaker of Moroto; ii) Hon. Agilu Simon-Peter, the District Speaker of Napak; iii) Hon. Lodeo, the District Speaker of Kotido District; iv) Hon. Locoro, the DEC member, Napak, and the Cultural Head of Bukora people; v) Tebanga Emmanuel, the CSO of Napak, and they are represented here by Hon. Nakut; vi) Mr Ogwal Geoffrey Alex, LCV Chairman of Kwania Local District government. They are all here to witness the proceedings of today. Honourable members, if you have not said anything, we have a number of reports. Those

Thank you so much, Madam Speaker. I want to thank the committee for their report. However, Madam Speaker, as you have sent us to go to all these areas in Northern Uganda, I want to re-echo again on the issue of Kitgum- Karenga-Kidepo-Kaboong-Kotido Road, which is actually one of the busiest roads that gives us a lot of money from the tourism sector. I want to inform you that when we went on the Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs, there were other members of Parliament who could not cross from Moroto to Kotido because of Lopei Bridge which was flooded. At the same time, we could not even cross to Abim passing via Kotido to Aleret. Secondly, Karenga is going to host –

Honourable Chair of the Karamoja Parliamentary Group, is Moroto in Karamoja?

Moroto road starts from here and stops in Agago –

I want to read for you, Hon. Achia. Keep your cool. The road from Moroto through Omoro, Pader, Agago and Abim - Abim is in Karamoja. If the committee did not capture issues of Karamoja, let us put them down after the session. Let us sit as subregions; Karamoja, Acholi, Lango, West Nile, and agree on what was not covered. Let us agree on that. We do not have to lose our heads here.

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I am rising up to inquire about my region, Karamoja. We have a dam called Nakonyen. It was constructed under the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) and it is said that the dam is in Moroto District. According to my assessment, three-quarters of the dam is in my district, and the other side is in Moroto. My inquiry is, is Nakonyen Dam in Moroto District or in Amudat District? Then we have a border issue with Sebei – (Member timed out)

13999 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 15 AUGUST 2024 Rt Hon. Prime Minister, at the peak of insecurity in Karamoja Region, St Kizito Hospital suffered because they were treating all the victims of gun violence. When the President visited us in 2022, he made that promise. In addition, the Bishop of Moroto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Damiano Guzzetti, came and camped in your office - you gave us a full day and I was there. You also gave us your word that you would follow through that commitment and that money would be paid, which St. Kizito Hospital is expecting. I raised it here again, and the Third Deputy Prime Minister gave us words of comfort and said she would follow through. Rt Hon. Prime Minister, today, what do I tell Bishop Damiano?

Thank you so much. Hon. Kakembo talked about the new cities. That new cities were created and approved by the Tenth Parliament. There is need to operationalise these cities to enable us prepare for the forthcoming general elections and demarcation of constituencies. He asked, when will we operationalise Entebbe City? My response, Mr Speaker, is that the Government in April 2020, created 15 cities in Uganda to be operationalised in a phased manner. The 10 cities of Arua, Mbarara, Gulu, Jinja, Fort Portal, Mbale, Masaka, Hoima, Lira, and Soroti, took effect on 1 July 2020. These were to be followed by the five cities of; Entebbe, Moroto, Nakasongola, Kabale and Wakiso, meant to be operationalised as follows: On 1 July 2022, it was supposed to be Entebbe City. 1 July 2023, it was supposed to be Moroto, Nakasongola, Kabale, and Wakiso cities. However, in August 2020, the law (The Local Governments Act Cap 138) was amended, and midterm operationalisation of administrative units and local governments abolished. The newly created administrative units and local governments can only take effect six months before the general elections, and this amendment affected the next phase of the five cities. The Ministry of Local Government is currently carrying out the technical studies and consultations with stakeholders in the five cities, to prepare them for the operationalisation of 1 July 2025, subject to the guidance by Cabinet. Question number 6 is still from Hon. Ojok, Member of Parliament, Omoro County. His prayer is; what is the status of Government intervention in realisation of transitional justice law, to address the question of war reparations in Acholi Subregion? My response is that on 17 June 2019, Cabinet under Minute 239 (CT-2019), (Cabinet Memorandum CT (2018)38), approved the National Transitional Justice Policy as follows: a) Noted the key aspects of the National Transitional Justice Policy. b) Approved the National Transitional Justice Policy. c) Approved the wide dissemination and publication of the National Transitional Justice Policy. d) Approved the fast-tracking of the legislation on the National Transitional Justice Policy. e) Directed the ministers of Internal Affairs and Justice and Constitutional Affairs, to provide a transitional period between the implementation of the National Transitional Justice Policy, and the enactment of the relevant laws on the transitional justice to give the Government ample time to identify the most sustainable source of funding for the undertaking. The National Transitional Justice Policy is an overreaching framework of the Government of Uganda designed to address peace, justice, accountability and reconciliation needs of post conflict Uganda. Mr Speaker, it is therefore, seeking to engage with all parts of the country that have been affected by civil strife, conflict, and not only the Acholi Subregion. Since the approval of the policy, it has been disseminated and efforts are being undertaken to present principles for a proposed Transitional Justice Law. It should be noted that the principles for the policy were withdrawn from the Cabinet in February 2023, to enable the responsible ministries to harmonise certain issues, including administrative arrangements for the law.

When will operationalization of Entebbe City take effect? RESPONSE: Rt. Hon. Speaker and Honorable colleagues, Government in April 2O2O Created 15 Cities in Uganda to be operationalized in a phased manner. The 10 Cities of Arua, Mbarara, Gulu, Jinja, Fortportal, Mbale, Masaka, Hoima, Lira and Soroti took effect on l"t July 2O2O. These were to be followed by 5 Cities of Entebbe, Moroto, Nakasongola, Kabale and Wakiso meant to be to be operationalized as follows: l"t July 2O22-Entebbe City l"t July 2023- Moroto, Nakasongola, Kabale, Wakiso lities. However August 2O2O, the Law (The Local Governments Act Cap 138) was amended and midterm operationalisation of Administrative Units and Local Governments abolished. The Newly created Administrative Units and Local Governments can only take effect six months before the General elections. This amendment alfected the next phase of 5 Cities. The Ministry of Local Government is currently carrying out the Technical Studies and consultations with stakeholders in the 5 Cities to prepare them for operationalization on l"t July 2025, subject to the guidance by Cabinet. 11

1 Kayunga Regional Referral RRH Ka5runga Hos ital t6 Lira Regional Referral Hospital RRH Lira City 17 Masaka Hospital Regional Referral RRH Masaka City 18 Mbale Hospital Regional Referral RRH Mbale City 19 Mbarara Hospital Regional Referral RRH Mbarara ciw 20 Moroto Hospital Regional Referral RRH Moroto District 2t Mubende Hospital Regional Referral RRH Mubende District 22 Soroti Hospital Regional Referral RRH Soroti City 23 Entebbe Paediatric Specialized Hospital Surgery Specializ ed Hospital Wakiso District 24 Entebbe Hospital Regional Referral RRH Wakiso District 25 Yumbe Hospital Regional Referral RRH Yumbe District 22

13580 TRIBUTE TO THE L A TE H ON. S I MON P E TER A L E P E R in international organisations which have specific focus on the growth of Karamoja region such as Programme Officer for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Zonal Project Officer for World Vision International, Community Dialogue Officer for the International Rescue Committee and Moroto District Peace Monitor; FURTHER RECOGNISING THAT Hon. Simon Peter Aleper has been instrumental in economic development and social progress of Karamoja region and the nation at large, having superintended the negotiations that saw the people of Karamoja agree to the establishment of a cement factory in Moroto, which became a source of employment for many; APPRECIATING THAT Hon. Simon Peter Aleper was a patriot who loved his country and dedicated his life to the development of the people of Karamoja, the NRM party, and Uganda at large and, therefore, deserves the recognition of this Parliament and the State; NOW, THEREFORE, Mr Speaker, be it resolved that: 1. Parliament collectively conveys its deepest condolences to the bereaved family, friends, the people of Karamoja, the NRM party, and Uganda for the loss of a distinguished son of this country; and 2. Parliament takes cognisance of the dedicated service that the late Hon. Simon Peter Aleper has rendered to the people of Karamoja, the Parliament of the Republic of Uganda, the NRM party, and the people of Uganda.” Mr Speaker, I beg to move. (Applause)

Mr Speaker, this is my justification. On Monday, 23 July 2024, the country received the disheartening news of the passing on of Hon. Simon Peter Aleper, the NRM Vice-Chairperson Karamoja region through a tragic road accident at Bukoona, along the Iganga-Tirinyi Highway. Hon. Simon Peter Aleper was a Member of Parliament for Moroto Municipality in the Ninth Parliament. Mr Speaker, Hon. Simon Peter was born on 26 December 1974 to the late Mr Meri Lochap Peter and the late Mrs Martha Lomuge. He; 1. Completed Kasimeri Primary School in 1988. 2. Attended Moroto High School from 1989 to 1992, and attained Ordinary Level Certificate of Education.

13583 THE E L E V E N TH P A R L I A MENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY , 25 J ULY 2024 but many others could have been prevented if we had a functional healthcare system. Our hospitals are inadequate, lacking proper intensive care units, essential medical supplies and sufficient number of medical personnel. Without immediate action, we risk losing more lives of our citizens. A few weeks ago, Mr Speaker, the Government made a disappointing choice of redirecting crucial funds from improving our struggling healthcare systems to support ROKO. This decision, which was made by the Government, demonstrates a lack of consideration for the well-being of Ugandan citizens who should depend on accessible and high-quality healthcare. No wonder, Hon. Aleper had been giving out some handouts, such as basins to every mother who gave birth at the missionary hospital in Moroto and this is testimony to the ailing healthcare system. Mr Speaker, during the Ninth Parliament in which Hon. Aleper served, this House passed a motion urging the Government to provide better funding and equipment for health facilities located along major highways to adequately handle emergencies, especially for road accident victims. However, the Government did not support the initiative - (Interjection) - Mr Speaker, I think you need to educate the Member on the proceedings of this Sitting –

13588 TRIBUTE TO THE L A TE H ON. S I MON P E TER A L E P E R She woke up in the middle of the night to get in touch with A-Plus Funeral Services, together with Captain Mike Mukula. They were able to pick the body from Iganga, have it treated, and brought to Mulago Hospital. Mr Speaker, we want to thank the Speaker and your office for that response. (Applause) Secondly, I would like to thank the Central Executive Committee and the President for being in touch throughout this terrible time and quickly deciding that at his level of a member of the Central Executive Committee, he should be accorded an official burial. I would like to correct the write-up of my brother, Hon. Ssewungu. Most of you know Tirinyi Road from that corner called Bukoona. Hon. Aleper was knocked at around 1.00 a.m. on a straight road. Before reaching where he was knocked, there are humps. He was coming from Mbale to Kampala, just 6.3 kilometres before joining the Iganga-Bugiri-Tororo Highway. In addition, it was not a head-on collision. Up to now, the front of the car – which is at Iganga Police – is intact. It seems to me – because if it had been a knock on the side and if it was a car in motion, it would have overturned. It seems to me that Hon. Aleper had foreseen a trailer coming and moved onto the side of the road. However, the oncoming trailer – we imagine it was a trailer because of the knock on his door. He was the one driving and the tyre marks are on the side of the door up to today. That trailer, or whatever it was, was very big because the tyre marks reached the window level of a Toyota Land Cruiser V8, and the side of the car bore blue and yellow paint marks. The car did not overturn. It knocked him on the side and he died on the spot. Hon. Ssewungu, please tell your Leader of the Opposition to correct this write-up. It is not true. We are mourning. It is now 72 hours later but we have not received a report on the whereabouts of the killer truck. We have been told that it is unknown and it seems to me that it is going to be like what happened to late Hon. Okabe. We want to hear from the Government how far the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the police and the CIID have gone with the investigations to apprehend the killer truck. In the circumstances, even at the entrance to Tirinyi Highway, there are cameras at that corner and along that road. How come, up to this moment, the people of Karamoja have not been told the whereabouts of the killer truck? Please, we need that statement from the Government. At the level of Hon. Aleper, a member of the Central Executive Committee, up to now, we do not even know whether there is a specialised unit of Police following up on this truck. We have not got any information - at least we, Members of the Parliament, the Chairman of Karamoja Parliamentary Group, and the family have not got any information about the killer truck. The longer it takes, the more it will give people room to start suspicious talk. Please quickly give us the report on this. Get information from the cameras – whichever camera is working – and give us the report. Mr Speaker, Karamoja has lost a voice. When Hon. Aleper joined campus in 1996, or even before that, in 1994 – Actually after finishing Moroto High School, he did not have anybody to pay his school fees. We would like to thank the people of Cornerstone Academy in Luwero; they are the ones who picked him. When he went there, he performed very well and joined Makerere University. When he finished Makerere University, he joined a cadet course. He was actually in Jinja as a cadet officer. At some point, he decided to come out and pursue active politics. He was not chased. Hon. Aleper was a counsellor who preferred dialogue. He would logically walk you through a matter, maybe because of his background of doing political science and philosophy. He always wanted to develop consensus. He did a lot in the region. When we were in this Parliament, he was the publicity secretary for the Karamoja Parliamentary Group while I was the secretary and Hon. Sam Lokeris was the chairperson. We did a lot here. [Mr] Achia

13589 THE E L E V E N TH P A R L I A MENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY , 25 J ULY 2024 How would Hon. Aleper like this country to remember him? Hon. Aleper was passionate about integrity. He was passionate about changing Karamoja. When he finished Makerere University, together with a few of his friends, they formed what we call the Forum for the Advancement and Transformation of Karamoja. Security told them, “Please go down on that. Are you trying to secede?” They talked them down. Recently, he formed Karamoja Professional Association which has been active. Mr Speaker, they came to you on the issue of Karamoja Development Agency (KDA) saying, please do not remove KDA. Mr Speaker, you actually have a write-up on his ideas on why KDA should not be relieved from the law books. His passion was to transform Karamoja. As the Rt Hon. Prime Minister said, he participated, as the - The recent reason as to why he was in Moroto was to negotiate for land for a cement factory and he succeeded. As we talk, the documents which are at the police station in Iganga are the documents that he was bringing to be signed. He had negotiated for 500 acres for a new cement factory and the documents are there. He had - (Member timed out.)

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I join colleagues in paying tribute to our fallen colleague, Hon. Aleper. I met Aleper three times. The first time was in the 2008 during a programme review for the Karamoja Integrated Disarmament Development Programme. The second time I met him in Moroto was when we were on a panel, during a recruitment exercise for an officer to oversee Karamoja under the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA). When I hear people speaking about Hon. Aleper and mentioning his integrity, it was his niche for integrity that helped us to zero down on a candidate. We had a stalemate when two people scored the same mark and we had no idea how to separate the two and make one win. It was Aleper who advised us that, let us get back to the way each of these candidates was answering questions. And he did say that one of the candidates was straightforward. For what he did not know, he would say clearly, “I

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for the opportunity. Many people knew Hon. Aleper as a father, a husband, a brother and an uncle. But, additionally, I also knew Hon. Aleper as former Member of this House and a member of Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the mighty party, NRM where I have been with him for now more than seven years. In the Ninth Parliament, we were with Hon. Aleper but because we were not in the same committee, I did not have so much time to interact with him apart from sharing whenever he was contributing in this House. However, when Hon. Aleper joined the Central Executive Committee (CEC), we have been together doing so many things that gave me the opportunity to know and understand him more. He was a lover of democracy, multi-partism and party discipline. For example, in 2016 when we went for party primary elections, Hon. Aleper contested and lost with just 28 votes. He said, “This is my party, I am not going to contest as an independent.” Most of us, after losing, decided to go against our party and chose to contest as independents. He did not do that. That showed how he loved NRM, the party he belonged to. And indeed he had so many justifications as to why he loved NRM. Therefore, today, if Members are here thanking the Commander-in-Chief, the chairman of the NRM party, and President of the Republic of Uganda for according to the late Hon. Aleper an official burial, for the peace and security created in the Karamoja sub-region, they are right. Mr Speaker, those of you who have not experienced or who have just experienced a bit of insecurity can take it lightly and just joke. However, those of us who grew up in other countries as refugees, who have lived in this country as internally displaced persons (IDPs) - whoever you are in this country, you can stand up and thank President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for creating peace in this country. There can be no development without peace and security. That is a cardinal role that Ugandans must look at and that is what the late Hon. Aleper based himself on whenever he was contributing to this country. Mr Speaker, Hon. Aleper was a team worker, a consensus builder, an influencer. When he started talking, you ended up accepting everything that he said because he knew how to influence and bring you on board. One day we were going to Kyankwanzi – NALI, for a retreat. He started talking and because we left here late in the evening, we realised when we had already reached Fort Portal. We forgot that we were going to Kyankwazi and it seemed a short distance for us because everything that he said, we would pay attention. We had to make a U-turn and then start our journey to Kyankwanzi. That is the man we are mourning here today. As a team builder, he decided to make CEC a think tank. We have a group called “undeployed” and whenever we go to CEC, that team first sits, consults amongst themselves and sees how they will contribute in CEC - some of the members are here. Indeed, that is why, late that evening, Hon. Aleper decided to drive himself - because there was a way we wanted to contribute in this last CEC, which we did not. We were all saddened to hear the news. We couldn’t speak. That showed commitment and patriotism. Leaving Moroto at that time to come and sit in a meeting! It is the heart you have for your country; when you do not have it, you will not do that. (Applause) This is the man who is here. The late Hon. Aleper was very open-minded, independent, and consistent and when he was speaking, he would say it as it is. He would not call a spade a big spoon or a spoon a big spade. If it is a spade, it is a spade. In CEC meetings, where we would get confused, he would give us wisdom and advice. He would direct on how the discussions should move. This is the man that we are paying tribute to. He has died at a time when we wanted him more.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I have known Hon. Simon for almost 10 years. For those of us who were in church today, we were reminded that we have a rehearsal for death every night; that when you sleep, you are dead. You are lucky when you wake up. We also know that death is certain. What is uncertain is when you will die. Hon. Simon - I do not want to repeat myself - was a good person in caucusing. Hon. Remigio was asking about the fund. Tomorrow, the NRM will announce a fund for the children because we have already passed it and some of our Members have already contributed. (Applause) Maybe, we shall ask the Executive through the caucus chairperson to mobilise Members from here. Tomorrow, it shall be announced officially by the National NRM Chairman. When you talk about Hon. Aleper - I see our honourable colleagues here who are always with him and me. He did not have to announce himself that he was around because he was not a small man. He was a giant, he had a description in terms of his attire and when you engaged him, you would know who Hon. Simon was. I am a bit constrained to say that Hon. Simon was humble; maybe a bit civil but when it came to Karamoja issues, the humility in Hon. Aleper would be put aside. We have seen it. Our honourable colleagues who are here, I remember in 2019, during the December CEC meeting, we had an urgent meeting; a short time with our national chairman. He informed us that there was no other business but when the main business was over, Hon. Aleper stood up. The chairman said, “No, we had already agreed on the agenda”. Hon. Aleper stood up, picked up the microphone, and mentioned one thing, which I will repeat. He said, “Mr President, the LC III Chairman of Moroto has been murdered” and we all sat back and listened to the Karamoja story. No wonder the deployment - the Karamojong representation here - the deployment of UPDF and police was single- handedly pushed through the Executive by none other than Hon. Simon Aleper. (Applause) Mr Speaker, we can only emulate his good qualities of telling the truth. When Hon. Aleper picked up the microphone, some of us would wait for what was next because of his character. He would talk about going this side and push

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to pay tribute to our brother. The late Hon. Simon Peter Aleper, lying here in front of us, was a very straightforward person. I first met him in Moroto High School. He was in senior three and I was in senior five. I was a head girl, and he was in the students’ body. Therefore, my brother, Hon. Simon Aleper you see lying here, grew up with me. Hon. Simon Aleper was a very hardworking student. By then, he had a very special friend called Ismail and they could move together. Being young in school by then, they used to come to the girls’ hostel and the first thing was to ask where the head girl was. Every time, he would say to me, “You look a very good leader ”. Then one time I told him, we are going to read and we shall become leaders of Karamoja and Uganda. And here we were, in the Ninth Parliament where we met again. Mr Speaker, our brother was a man of God, a mobiliser, a man of integrity and he had values. I remember one time in the Ninth Parliament he mobilised us - Hon. John Baptist Lokii, the former Member of Parliament of Napak, who is up there in the Gallery, Hon. Stella Namoe, the former woman Member of Parliament for Abim, Hon. Remigio Achia and myself on the issues of the bad roads in Karamoja. We went for a press conference. How I wish, they played that when we were viewing him there, because he had a message, and from that time, they started working on the roads of Karamoja. Even the tarmac road was worked upon; Nakapiripirit to Muyembe Road was also worked on because of his mobilisation skills. Mr Speaker, Hon. Aleper, was a man of truth. When he tells you something, he would have researched and got it up to the depth. We have lost an icon and a pillar of Karamoja. The whole of Karamoja is now mourning. There were no ethnic boundaries with Hon. Simon Peter Aleper. He could move from

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for giving me time to join my colleagues to pay tribute to our fallen colleague. I join my colleagues in sending sincere condolences to the bereaved family on the demise of our brother. I know this is a very tough and trying moment. We believe in God and He can give them the spirit of being resilient. I have known the late “ASPRO”, the one we refer to as Hon. Simon Peter Aleper - since our childhood. We traversed education from the age of 10 and went through up to the university. We even joined this Parliament together in 2011. That is why the people of Moroto refer to us as political twins. During my time with the late - I have known the late Hon. Simon Peter Aleper as a social man who would mix with all different tribes of people, who would find time to talk to different categories of people because he wanted to interact with them and get the best out of them. Even when we were Members of Parliament in Moroto, I represented the people of Matheniko County from 2011 up to date- even when he was in the constituency, he would say he was going to have a peace dialogue meeting in Matheniko while I was in Kampala. Some colleagues would say, “No, do not go to my constituency without me.” He would call me and say, please, you are going for a genuine cause. Go and do peace mobilisation in my constituency even if I am not there. That is the kind of person I saw in “ ASPRO” . He was a man who was ready to work with anybody. Even during - when he lost the elections in 2016 and 2021, he did not want to antagonise anybody. He would say, “Let us respect the flag and the will of the voters by allowing the person who has been given the flag to continue the leadership.” That is the kind of person I saw in Hon. Simon Peter Aleper. He galvanised the support for the party and united the people; those who stood including the agents of the different candidates - he managed to unite them. Recently, Hon. Aleper galvanised support of all the educated elites in Karamoja, right from degrees, and Masters up to PhD in a platform called Karamoja Professionals Association. He was the chairman and during his time, he managed to get views from all the educated Karamojong elites until we developed a 10- year Karamoja Development Plan, which is customised to the National Development Plan. I saw Hon. Aleper as somebody passionate about the development of marginalised regions. Then there, Hon. Simon Peter Aleper was a lobbyist. We have just heard that he lobbied for the tarmac together with the MPs of that time – (Member timed out_)

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I also rise to support the motion on the Floor. On behalf of UPDF Members of Parliament, I pass on heartfelt condolences to the family of Hon. Simon Peter. Now, to Simon Peter Aleper Junior, your guardian is no more. Now you are the father of that family. You need to be strong because you will live and take care of that family. I will be having an office in Moroto and Soroti. These people should not die hungry, come to my office, so long as I live – (Applause) - they will not die what - stomach. The stomach is number one - so long as I live, they will eat. Are you getting me? Come to my office. Somebody said, “Karamoja.” Karamoja will rise and take over this world. Let me tell you this, honourable members, Karamoja will rise, and do not just say, “We know where Karamoja started from and where Karamoja is.” I would like to assure you that Karamoja will rise, and people will wonder what happened. (Applause) Some people usually say that they will not wait for Karamoja to develop, but Karamoja will develop. The people of Karamoja will develop themselves. We have everything to develop. Everything is there. You only need to sort out your problems, including sorcery. Thirdly, when Samuel was old, the children of Israel told him that he was now old and they wanted somebody young. When Samuel was there, Israel was okay - Peace. Then they said, “Now you are old, you can get us somebody.” Samuel cried, but God told him, “Don’t cry, they have not rejected you, they have rejected me. You do what they want, but tell them this… ” (1Samuel 8:7) What happened? Israel from that day received a curse, and up to today, Israel is nowhere. Every time they are in war, fighting. Somebody should not bring us a curse. We respect our elders and wish them well. They have done their part and we give them respect. Please, keep our elders. You also have elders. Do not abuse our elders. Do not demonise them all the time. You make us very annoyed by the way. Do not demonise - you have your father and grandfather, and nobody demonises them. Please, leave us out. We do not abuse them. Leave our elders! To my brother, Hon. Simon Aleper, I do not know where you are now, and so, I can only pray to the Father in Heaven to forgive you of whatever you might have done wrong in this world. In this world, we are all sinners. There is no saint. Please, remember one thing only that he did. If you could remember only one thing that Hon. Simon Peter did and forgive him and give him rest. Rest forever. I submit. (Applause)

13603 THE E L E V E N TH P A R L I A MENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY , 25 J ULY 2024 Mr Speaker, I know that Hon. Simon Peter has had his contribution to make. However, where does this leave Karamoja? I think it is time for us, the leaders of Karamoja, to come together again. The Bible says that people without a vision perish. This man’s vision has gone with him. What does he leave us with? We need to create our own vision and see how we can move Karamoja forward. Two, Hon. Simon Peter’s struggle, while it has not been in vain, still leaves us with challenges. I thank the members of the Central Executive Committee (CEC), against the interest of my brother, Hon. Ssemujju, and also thank His Excellency, the President, because he has exercised his powers if that is where equity is. The point I would like to raise is: yes, I agree with him that Karamoja and Hon. Simon Peter in his fight has died and left Karamoja in poverty at 65 per cent. This is a fact that we should not reject. The question is, what is the National Resistance Movement going to do, or what is the NRM Government doing in these 40 years to help us move and be integrated into the Ugandan economy? We have heard all these interventions - the people dying of malnutrition there, are the leaders of tomorrow. Are we saying that there should be no leaders in this country coming from Karamoja? Then there is still a shortage of water. Hon. Simon goes in pain because he has left a Karamoja with questions that have not yet been answered. Yes, the tarmac road has been brought, and we really fought for it, but it has only reached Moroto, not Karamoja. When the tarmac reaches Kidepo, it will have reached Karamoja. That is how some of us understand it. Now, in all this - (Interjections) - could have been right, I am interpreting statistics, not what Hon. Ssemujju said. My understanding is that we have lost a voice in the CEC and in his absence, it means the Karamoja picture is not going to be in the CEC because each CEC member has a region that they represent. So, what happens to Karamoja? I am saying this because marginalisation was there even when the late Hon. Simon Peter was still alive. How much more marginalisation will be there, now that he is not there? I would like to appeal to the NRM party and members of CEC to again stand with us to support Karamoja, and to see that the efforts and fight started by the late Hon. Simon Peter are not in vain; it is time to mobilise. In fact, I was asking myself last night: we have been navigating and manoeuvring through all the bullets in the Karamoja region. We are here, none of us died, but the late Hon. Simon Peter just died in an accident, after going through all these years of ambushes, missing bullets, running at night to try to dodge bullets, and then on a peaceful day when he is driving for a CEC meeting, he dies?

13605 THE E L E V E N TH P A R L I A MENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY , 25 J ULY 2024 The intention of that association was to put our elites together so that we can augment our contributions to the transformation and development of the region so that we do not work in silos and for the members of Parliament to work with others in different sectors to contribute meaningfully. He understood that to develop Karamoja needed all of us, the sons and daughters of the land. However, the founder chairman has gone when it is still in baby stages. We will miss him dearly. That association was the one that accompanied us. The last time he appeared here, he was at the gallery a few weeks ago when the issue of Karamoja Development Agency (KDA) was being presented. The association was supporting the Karamoja group with information required to put our case to you, Mr Speaker. He was a man, as members have said, who loved the unity of Karamoja, not only love by words but also by deeds. He would take his time and invest money in meetings to unite and keep us together. Honourable colleagues, you are aware that even when you are colleagues from the same district, somehow, you can disagree. He organised several meetings. We have had some meetings as Members of Parliament from Napak District. The last meeting, he organised, we all became busy and it did not happen. He loved the unity of leaders. He told us that that was how we could serve the people better. That is the man who has gone. He had a broader lens than mine. He looked at not only Napak or Moroto where he served; he looked everywhere else. Mr Speaker, you are aware that we had Karamoja District when Uganda came into being. Moroto plus Kotido equals to Karamoja. After that, our unity ended there. We now became 12 tribes in one. But when we got too many districts, we began looking at our boundaries. We began looking at ourselves not as one people. And Hon. Aleper has spent a lot of energy trying to unite the region. He made us go back to a time when we were one Karamoja District. Now, we have missed him; he is the pillar we have missed. Let me tell you what happened a few weeks ago. When the Uganda Police Force was recruiting, I was in Napak for a ceremony. He was there too. Then the people of Napak complained that their names had been missed in the recruitment process for the police force. They gave me a duty to come and complain and submit a petition to the leadership of the Uganda Police Force so that they could be given a second chance. I came to the Police together with my district chairman to submit a complaint for the people of Napak because I knew I had their mandate, though I could not do it for all the other districts. However, my district chairman had already informed Hon. Aleper that we were going to the Police to report that matter. He came and found us discussing; I was negotiating a deal for Napak District. When Hon. Aleper entered, the picture changed. My mind had been narrowed to Napak but the picture changed to the entire region. Uganda Police Force accorded Karamoja a second chance after that meeting. That was him. (Applause) We have missed a person of that kind and so, who will look at the bigger picture? Who will look at the region? Who will look at the country? I do not know what kind of replacement we can have for such a person; it cannot happen. He maintained a high level of objectivity in everything he did and in every meeting we had. He would look out for the facts and not for the rumours or blackmail. Actually, he was above blackmail. No amount of blackmail could lower him down. He would not believe it if you told him a rumour. He looked out for what the facts were, and he would stick to that even when he was alone. Members here have talked about his strength being that of speaking his mind, no matter how hard it was. I want to say that that is not a strength. It is a weakness. Even though he

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I join colleagues in paying tribute to our fallen hero, the now late Hon. “ ASPRO”, the Rock . Mr Speaker, Hon. “ ASPRO” , in the first place, was my brother because we share a fence in Moroto. We are neighbours and we have been working together as brothers. Hon. “ ASPRO” was not only a leader or a politician, he had been anointed by God to lead his people to the promised land. I saw his capability when we were at Kasimeri Primary School. We then went to Moroto High School and from Moroto High School, we went to different schools for upgrading, and he already had signs of a leader. During his lifetime, Hon. Simon managed to unite Karamoja, and most especially the elites of Karamoja, to focus their attention on the transformation of Karamoja. He was also able to unite Uganda, because to become a member of CEC, you are elected by all regions in this country. He managed to enter the hearts and minds of Ugandans to be elected as a CEC member. And as you have heard from the testimonies of the CEC members, he has been a very capable and hard-working member. Mr Speaker, the challenge now is: he has left us so early. The time we needed him more is when he departed and left many things undone. Before his death, I was with him in Moroto, putting heads together to find a way of making sure that one of the companies that intended to open a factory, a clinker plant in my constituency, was to enter into an agreement with the community for the clinker to start. The documents we were discussing while in Moroto are still with the police at Iganga. We were supposed to bring those documents here, to Kampala to share with the investor, in order, to accomplish the whole mission but now he is instead here lying before us. I wonder who is going to be with that heart that he gave to speak for the voiceless people of Karamoja and Uganda. It is a big loss to the Karamoja Region and Uganda as a nation. I do not know whether we shall get a replacement for a person like Hon. Simon Peter Aleper. To the family, remain strong. Why? They say that death is inevitable, that death is not for one family, and that death is for everybody. It is only a question of time; all of us here are candidates of death. With those few remarks, Mr Speaker, may the soul of our fallen hero rest in eternal peace. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Karamoja is in darkness as we speak. We have lost a hero, mentor, leader, and the hope for Karamoja. Personally, I speak on what he has so far done for me. Mr Speaker, I contested and came to Parliament when I was a nurse, after going through the primaries of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) but while that went on a human being came in between me to destroy my destiny. During the destruction of my destiny, I called Hon. Aleper “ ASPRO,” and told him that, “My brother, I am dying in Kampala and I do not know anywhere in Kampala.” He asked where I was and I told him, “I see a gate written on Makerere University” Kumbe I was in Wandegeya. I told him that they had taken away my rights and that I was ready to destroy anyone. I got close to the person who had taken my certificate and handed it over to another person. I was ready to do anything. Then, he told me to cool down. “Go and sleep because it was late,” he said to me, and it was around 6.00 p.m. “We shall meet tomorrow,” he said. My brothers and sisters, these are the young leaders of Uganda who are coming up though people are using their offices to destroy the young Ugandans. As for my brother, sorry, May your soul rest in peace. I last talked to him on 25 th June. We were talking about what would happen next - I told him that my dear, if those people were still in that office I would come as an independent because I did not want to go through what I had gone through. Mr Speaker, this man here is a man in definition. He is a real man and a hero. He escaped all the bullets in Karamoja and died on Tuesday morning as a woman without anyone to defend him. We were not near him but he went. God see Karamoja! Mr Speaker, leaders here rose and talked about Karamoja. We have leaders in Karamoja and they used to say, “Wait for the Karamoja to develop…,” – that was the time when Karamoja had one district. Now we have nine districts; it has grown. Let the Karamoja leadership speak about their own problems. Do not own Karamoja yet you do not know what Karamoja is. Give us the opportunity - Government, listen to us; what we speak is the right thing but no one listens. Now that the saviour has gone - someone whom we could call to talk to in the middle of the “ Akereket ” - you know “ Akereket ” is where the elders meet. Who will now speak in the Akereket ? But we know another Ugandan and Karimojong man or lady will come up. Mr Speaker, we have roads in Karamoja. There is a road called Muyembe-Nakapiripit banange (Laughter). When will that road be completed like the Moroto-Lokitanyala Road? Mr Speaker, we have contractors who have performed well in this country but anybody who does good things, they not appreciated - (Member timed out)

Thank you, Mr Speaker. When you speak after so many people have spoken, you run the risk of not having what to say. However, Hon. Simon Peter Aleper is somebody you cannot fail to say something about because he has done many things that people cannot forget. When we had concluded the elections and got elected to the 11 th Parliament, as the Vice- Chairperson of NRM and a CEC member for Karamoja, Hon. Aleper mobilised us for a meeting in Moroto. I remember two statements that he said to us. He said, “Do not expect the Government to give us everything on a silver plate, we must work for it. We need mechanisms to try to get that from the Government and if we put them to task and they do not give us today, do not give up; continue to fight until that is given.” We have continued with that spirit. Mr Speaker, as human beings, we work with systems. In these systems, we have created positions of responsibility that we occupy. However, when we pass in tragic circumstances like this one, these positions will quickly be replaced and as time moves on, we get quickly forgotten but the late Hon. Simon Peter Aleper is someone that we cannot forget about because his leadership in that position brought a different dimension to those positions that he held. If it was any other ordinary person, we would quickly forget. As a way of paying tribute to Hon. Simon Peter Aleper - my colleague has brought up the issue of the Karamoja Development Agency (KDA)- several times, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) have brought supplementary budgets to Parliament and have also planned for Karamoja. They have understood that if you want money to be given to you as a ministry, say that it is for Karamoja and the Parliament will not debate; they will just pass it. In the last financial year, this Parliament passed a Supplementary Budget for buying tractors for Karamoja. When it was brought to the Floor - by the Ministry of Agriculture - the M embers of Parliament said, “Let us pass it, it is for Karamoja,” but those tractors never reached Karamoja. KDA is coming in as a brainchild of “ ASPRO” that we revamp. The reason is that we want all the monies meant for Karamoja to be realised

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I want to add my voice to pay tribute to my uncle, “ mamayi .” He used to call him “ Acenyo .” I first met him when he was a young man coming from university. When he came back from university, he came to work in Karamoja, which is very rare with some people. Many would wish to stay in Kampala. I was working with the Karamoja Development Agency (KDA). When people talk of KDA, I am a beneficiary. I was teaching in your constituency; Karamoja Development Agency School and it was really an area of development. There could have been a few issues of accountability, but that does not need us to kill the baby for the KDA. (Applause) I want to say that when Hon. “A SPRO” came to especially the constituency of Baptists - many people were not going to school but he became an icon and encouraged children to go to school so they could become like him. This is because he loved himself. This man loved himself to the extent that he was very smart. If you saw him on the streets of Moroto, you would see “ ASPRO .” He liked people and talked to the elders. I know he would come to those Mzees; the owners of the shops, talk to them, and would get wisdom. When we came to the Ninth Parliament, he said, “Hon. Asamo, I came from poverty, I must buy a V8.” I asked him, “Uncle, they have only given us Shs 150 million, are you going to buy the V8?” He said, “Yes, I will make a top-up. I must drive a V8” and he bought it. Mr Speaker, the first time he drove his V8, he came back and said, “ Otukoi , Shs 2 million going, Shs 2 million coming back.” I said, since you love yourself, enjoy the money. He then said, “Now, I do not know what will remain for the family.” I told him, “Watch yourself; learn how to save.” He sold that car before even it made six months. I know he has died again in a V8 but he sold the first one. Those who were with me can bear me witness. Hon. “ ASPRO” has been a man of his word. Hon. “ ASPRO” would tell you – there was a day we had a debate here - nobody has talked about it. I think we had the whole Karamoja team of the Ninth Parliament and “ ASPRO” said that there must be an audit of all the money that flows to Karamoja. For his sake, we need to audit. This money is too much yet we do not see much. Where does the money go? People go there - I remember when I used to work in Karamoja, people used to say that people go to Karamoja in grass-thatched houses and come back with white mabaati . Meaning we siphon from Karamoja. I worked in the whole of Karamoja right from Amudat up to the other side, mobilising for the NRM Party in 1996.

13462 PRESENTATION OF THE BUDGET SPEECH FY 2024/2025 modern geospatial centre, to be able to obtain data from a broad spectrum of satellites from partner nations. I have provided Shs 3.3 billion for space programme activities in the next Financial Year. I would like to commend His Excellency the President for spearheading the development of the knowledge economy through targeted funding of research and development and the scientists in general. Tumukubireko mungalo. (Applause) You are very mean. The president does this kind of thing and you do not clap for him? Nze nkankyekoleleko nzeka. (Applause) Mineral Development Madam Speaker, mineral development is another growth accelerator that has been earmarked by the Government to expand Uganda’s economy by ten-fold. It is going to support resource-based industrialisation into light manufacturing and high-tech exports. During the financial year we are ending, the following have been achieved in the mineral sector: i. The entire country has been fully mapped using airborne and ground geophysical technologies; ii. The National Mining Company has been incorporated as a commercial vehicle for investment and trading in minerals on behalf of the Government of Uganda; iii. Several key mineral development projects and mineral value addition centres have been developed, including; Wagagai, for gold mining in Busia, rare earth metals in Bugweri, a graphite project in Kitgum; a limestone mining project by Sunbird Resources Ltd in Moroto and Seven Gold Refineries in Kampala, among others; iv. M/s Woodcross Tin Smelting Company Ltd has established a tin smelter in Western Uganda to produce tin ingots to 99.95 percent tin grade. Next financial year, I have allocated Shs 41.55 billion to undertake the following interventions for further mineral developments: i. Fast-tracking quantification and market studies for all minerals for the purpose of investor promotion. ii. Operationalising the National Mining Company. iii. Further reviewing and strengthening the fiscal regime for minerals, including regulation of artisanal and small-scale miners. iv. Developing the e-government mineral production system and data bank for mineral statistics; v. Commencing construction of Busia and Moroto beneficiation centres and strengthening the Ntungamo and Fort Portal centres; and vi. Facilitating private sector participation in exploration, mining and value addition to minerals. Oil and Gas Madam Speaker, Uganda is progressing steadily toward the first oil in Financial Year 2025/2026. During the financial year we are ending, the following have been achieved: i. The Upstream Petroleum Project has advanced with drilling works in preparation for production; ii. The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project is on track with 500 kilometres of pipeline delivered in Tanzania. The target is to lay 100 kilometres per month; iii. The thermal insulation plant for heating the EACOP in Tabora, Tanzania was commissioned in March this year; iv. The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has issued two new exploration licences to Uganda National Oil Company and DGR Global, an Australian-based company;

13463 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 13 JUNE 2024 v. The planned 60,000 barrels per day refinery in Kabaale, Kikuube District, is progressing very well. The land for the project sites and associated terminal has already been acquired by the Government. Technical designs for the project are ready. The Government is working with Alpha MBM Investments from the United Arab Emirates to build the refinery; vi. The Government enforcement of the national content policy has ensured that up to 93 per cent of the jobs in the oil and the gas sector go to Ugandans. A total of 13,607 jobs have, so far, been given; and vii. In addition, the companies investing in the oil and gas sector are contracting locally. Since 2021, contracts worth $1.796 billion have been awarded to Ugandan companies out of the total contract investment of $7.162 billion. Madam Speaker, in a bid to ensure the security of supply of petroleum products, Uganda National Oil Company Limited (UNOC), in partnership with the private sector, will commence the importation of all our petroleum products beginning in the first week of July this year – which is near. Madam Speaker, next financial year, I have provided Shs 920.86 billion for the oil and gas sector to prioritise the following: i. Development of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline hub in Tanga; ii. Continued construction of the EACOP, including the necessary infrastructure to facilitate adherence to high-quality environmental standards; iii. Procurement and dissemination of the 57,000 liquefied petroleum gas cylinders to promote clean cooking; iv. Establishment of petroleum geoscience laboratory; and v. Equity contribution for the refinery. Integrated Transport Infrastructure and Services Madam Speaker, a total of 205 kilometres was added to the paved network during Financial Year 2023/2024, increasing the total paved national road network to 6,338 kilometres, representing over 30 per cent of the national road network. The following roads were completed during the financial year: Atiak-Laropi (66 kilometres); Masindi-Biiso, Hohwa- Nyairongo-Kyarusheesha-Butoole and Kabaale-Kiziranfumbi Road (97 kilometres); Moroto-Lokitanyala (42 kilometres); Rukungiri- Kihihi-Ishasha/Kanungu (78.5 kilometres); Kapchorwa-Suam (73 kilometres); and Masindi Park Junction and Tangi Junctions- Para-Buliisa roads (159 kilometres). In addition, three bridges were completed and construction of 36 critical strategic bridges is ongoing. The completed bridges are: i) Kampala Flyover and road upgrading; ii) Lugogo Bridge connecting Nakasongola District and Ngoma in Nakaseke, via Kasozi; and iii) Saaka Swamp crossing in Pallisa. With regard to air transport, the following were accomplished during the year we are talking about: i) Ninety per cent completion of Kabalega International Airport in Hoima. The remaining 10 per cent comprises critical air navigation, meteorological communication and airport operational facilities; ii) Ninety per cent completion of the expansion and rehabilitation of Entebbe International Airport, including modernisation of the departures and arrival areas of the terminal building; and

13464 PRESENTATION OF THE BUDGET SPEECH FY 2024/2025 iii) Maintenance of 13 aerodromes, including Arua, Gulu, Pakuba, Masindi, Lira, Kidepo, Moroto, Soroti, Tororo, Jinja, Mbarara, Kasese and Kisoro. Madam Speaker, with regard to water transport, the following were accomplished during the financial we are talking about - we are winding up: i) Completed the construction of three strategic ferries, namely; Amuru-Rhino Camp Ferry and two ferries for Bukungu- Kagwara-Kaberamaido (BKK) route on Lake Kyoga; ii) Completed the construction of the Maritime Training Institute in Namasagali, and commenced construction works for the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) at Mwanza; iii) Completed 46 per cent construction works for search and rescue centres at Kaazi and 25 per cent at Kaiso, Panyimur and Zengebe landing sites; and iv) Continued with the development of new Kampala Port at Bukasa. With regard to railway transport, the following were accomplished during this financial: i) Acquired a 161-kilometre corridor for the standard gauge railway between Tororo and Mayuge; ii) Twenty eight per cent completion of rehabilitation of Tororo-Gulu Metre Gauge Railway; and iii) Completed emergency refurbishment and rehabilitation of the Malaba-Kampala- Namanve Metre Gauge railway. Madam Speaker, during Financial Year 2024/2025, more focus will be put on maintenance of the roads we have built, building a few new strategic roads, accelerated rehabilitation of the metre gauge railway and commencement of construction of the Standard Gauge Railway. I have provided a total of Shs 4.989 trillion for that purpose. In particular, the following transport infrastructure will be undertaken: Roads and Bridges i. Tarmacking of an additional 306 kilometres of roads under the ongoing projects; ii. Completion of upgrading of 210 kilometres of the following roads: Muyembe- Nakapiripirit (92 kilometres) and 25 kilometres of service roads; Kira-Matugga Road and improvement of five junctions (21 kilometres); Tororo-Busia Road (26 kilometres) and Mayuge and Busia town roads (18 kilometres); Kawuku-Bwerenga Road (6.6 kilometres) and Namugonde- Bugiri Road (1.6 kilometres); selected town roads (7.5 kilometres), in Pallisa and Kumi (12.2 kilometres); and remedial works on Ntungamo-Kabale-Katuna Road (65 kilometres); iii. Commencing the upgrading/construction of 643 kilometres of the following road projects: Kisoro-Lake Bunyonyi Road Kisoro-Mgahinga National Park Headquarters Road; Koboko-Yumbe- Moyo Road; Yumbe-Ure Road; Kitgum- Kidepo; Namagumba-Budadiri-Nalugugu Road; Katine-Ochero Road and 2.9 km of town roads in Kaberamaido and Kalaki towns; Kyenjojo-(Kihura)-Bwizi- Rwamwanja-Kahunge and Mpara- Bwizi; Iganga-Buloopa-Kamuli; and Jinja-Mbulamuti-Kamuli-Bukungu; and Jinja City roads; Kisubi-Nakawuka- Natete; Nakawuka-Kasanje-Mpigi; and Nakawuka-MawuguluNanziga-Maya- Kasanje-Buwaya roads; iv. Upgrading to bitumen standard (tarmac) 16.9 km of roads in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area, and Gomba District; v. Completing the construction of 20.2 km of Kayunga-Nabuganyi Road; vi. Completing the construction of Kakiri- Masulita-Mawale Road (23 km);

13390 THE EXCISE DUTY (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2024 feed at the Aquaculture Research and Development Centre in Kajjansi; establish and/or upgrade seed storage, threshing and drying facilities to ensure sustainable supply of quality seed under the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries - Shs 134 billion. Transport infrastructure development The Government plans as follows: 1. Start construction of the SGR and continue implementing preparatory activities for SGR; that is update of feasibility studies for the western and eastern routes, and undertaking environment, social, economic impact assessments; acquisition of right of way for SGR (206 acres) of land are already acquired in seven districts. That is Tororo to Mayuge, among others – Shs 2.221 trillion; 2. Maintenance of 13 aerodromes; that is Arua, Gulu, Pakuba, Masindi, Lira, Kidepo, Moroto, Soroti, Tororo, Jinja, Mbarara, Kasese and Kisoro – Shs 3 billion; 3. Construction and upgrade of national roads and bridges – Shs 1.27 trillion. Some of these include – (Interjections) - colleagues, this is on roads. The Government plans to spend Shs 1.27 trillion and I will mention some of the roads: a) Hoima-Wanseko Road – Shs 141.1 billion; b) Kampala Flyover – Shs 69.8 billion; c) Construction of 66 selected bridges – Shs 54.2 billion; d) Rwenkunye-Apac-Lira-Acholibur Road – Shs 238 billion; e) Kisoro-Mgahinga National Park Headquarters Road – Shs 83.26 billion; f) Moyo-Yumbe-Koboko Road – Shs 180.6 billion; g) Upgrading of Kyenjojo-Kiruhura-Bwizi- Rwamwanja-Kahunge, Mpara-Bwizi – Shs 50 billion; and 4. Upgrading of Jinja-Mbulamuti-Kamuli- Bukungu Road from gravel to paved standard – Shs 34.5 billion. Continuation of the rehabilitation of over 450 kilometres of national roads. Some of those roads include: a) Kampala-Jinja Highway – Shs 20 billion; b) Busunju-Kiboga-Hoima – Shs 25.05 billion; c) Mityana-Mubende Road and Mityana Town Roads inclusive – Shs 42.38 billion; d) Alwii-Nebbi road and upgrading of Pakwach and Nebbi Town Council roads in total – Shs 17 billion; e) Rehabilitation of Karuma-Pakwach Road – Shs 20.05 billion; and f) Reconstruction of Matugga-Semuto- Kapeeka Road – Shs 61.12 billion; 5. Rehabilitation of district, urban and community access roads will continue under the Ministry of Works and Transport. There is Shs 142.3 billion; and 6. Shs 1 billion to each district, city and municipality for road grading, murram and compacting. In total, Shs 176 billion has been allocated for this purpose; Colleagues, in the last financial year, they are roads that the Ministry of Works signed contracts for and work has started. Those ones are worth Shs 33 billion, but they are not yet completed and not even paid. There are those where contracts have been signed but work has not commenced. They are worth Shs 33 billion. There is a whole list in the annex. There are also roads where the contracts have been procured but have not been signed, worth about Shs 13 billion. In the last cash release, the Government gave this particular vote Shs 19 billion, whereas the total requirement is Shs 79 billion. So, the budget at base is Shs 26 billion. We must recommend Shs 34 billion to cover those roads. The list of those roads covers the whole country. 7. The following ferries development/ construction will be undertaken. The total for this ferry is Shs 11.8 billion. That is: a) Substantial completion of two Bukungu- Kagwara-Kaberamaido (BKK) ferries and their landing sites; SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT [Mr Achia]

-+, ,L'{ r Anount (OOO') Description Vote L2,19t,793 405 Gulu Hospital tt,309,247 406 Hoima Hospital t8,467,606 Jinia Hospital 407 tt,o77,oto 408 Kabale Hospital 10,487,888 409 Masaka Hospital t7,694,t3t Mbale Hospital 410 9,79t,927 411 Soroti Hospital t5,682,495 4t2 Lira Hospital 16,559,583 4t3 Mbarara Regional Hospital 12,256,956 4L4 Mubende Regional Referral Hospital 10,943,300 415 Moroto Regional Referral Hospital LL,824,457 4t6 Naguru Referral Hospital 25,160,483 Kimddu Referral Hospital 4t7 22,589,r92 t 418 Kawempe Referral Hospital 13,062,585 419 Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital 27,646,183 420 Mulago Specialized Women and Neonatal Hospital 12,368,354 Kayunga Referral Hospital 42r tr,429,3t7 422 Yumbe Referral Hospital 292,789,423 Sub total -Referral Hospltds Missions Abroad 20,806,699 Uganda Mission at the United Nations, New York 501 Uganda High Commission in the United Kingdom 1t,840,947 502 5,955,050 Uganda High Commission in Canada , Ottawa 503 7,677,777 504 Uganda High Commission in India, New Delhi 5,341,493 505 Uganda High Commission in Kenya ,Nairobi 9,273,94t Uganda High Commission in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam s06 4,023,569 507 Uganda High Commission in Nigeria , Abuia i .i +.- . t,' :,' r Il-, ,I -4 M\L 9 I ,l \.. . .!: # i\r.i I I '11 .t --.ts----- \

xq. .d +8-- i*- n I I I I +.' ,i ,4 t,- t.. t, . i, -L4ii . *K -i- ,4 ui iri',1.,[,:-:. - I Amount (OOO'I Vote Descriptlon 8,644,O74 709 Council Kamuli Munici 10,801,134 7to Kapchorwa Municipal Council 16,156,203 Kasese Municipal Council 7LL 24,906,066 7t2 Kira Municipal Council 5,469,632 713 Kisoro Municipal Council 8,704,093 Kitzum Municipal Council 7t4 9,574,4O9 Koboko Municipal Council 7t5 a,27t,209 716 Kotido Municipal Council 8,752,t71 717 Kumi Municipal Council 9,2t6,O42 Lugazi Municipal Council 7L8 t6,295,026 Makindye-Ssabagabo Municipal Council 719 t2,060,528 720 Masindi Municipal Council 12,404,Ot6 72t Mityana Municipal Council 6,643,756 Moroto Municipal Council 722 L2,4a7,408 723 Mubende Municipal Council 2t,545,205 Mukono Municipal Council 724 26,304,364 Nansana Municipal Council 725 6,O20,976 726 Nebbi Municipal Council 15,000,089 727 Nieru Municipal Council 6,226,394 Ntungamo Municipal Council 724 12,r32,708 Rukungiri Municipal Council 729 15,643,023 730 Sheema Municipal Council 11,894,459 73r Tororo Municipal Council 20,657,t94 Abim District 801 36,860,992 Adiumani District 802 32,872,323 803 Agago District 25,478,944 Alebtong District 804 ) 23,rO9,607 805 Amolatar District rr,2to,637 806 Amudat District 25,200,826 ao7 Amuria District 20,a92,676 808 Amuru District T 0qA- t2 4r" t-l''.-- H'.+ t t

ait r [.' ,, .K .m- lir 2 I { ,&- .2 4l=# . '.t t. li ,',) .\ ,Lt Amount (OOO'I Descrlption Vote 2,006,435 313 Mountains of the Moon Universi 12,339,276 Mulago National Referral Hospital 401 2,262,036 402 Butabika Hospital 14,973,335,870 Sub total -Central Votes ( Drcl. Referrals and Mlsslonsf Referral Hospltals 108,000 Arua Hospital 403 109,81 1 404 Fort Portal Hospital 108,0o0 405 Gulu Hospital 108,000 Hoima Hospital 406 tt6,276 407 Jinja Hospital 108,000 Kabale Hospital 408 108,000 409 Masaka Hospital 5,109,39s 4LO Mbale Hospital 108,000 Soroti Hospital 4tl 108,000 4t2 Lira Hospital I 108,000 Mbarara Regional Hospital 4t3 L42,LO2 4t4 Mubende Regional Referral Hospital 108,000 415 Moroto Regional Referral Hospital 216,OOO \ 416 Naguru Referral Hospital l,377,OOO \+rz Kiruddu Referral Hospital 810,000 Kawempe Referral Hospital 418 810,000 4t9 Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital 2,O4t,200 420 Mulago Specialized Women and Neonatal Hospital 11,7o3,784 Sub total -Referral Hospltds Mlssions Abroad Uganda Mission at the United Nations, New York 501 2,90t,9r8 502 Uganda High Commission in the United Kingdom 9,700,000 503 Uganda High Commission in Canada , Ottawa Uganda High Commission in India, New Delhi 504 I , li , '.'; I i l, --l-l t ./' \1,. \: Ii \ ,,- H 4:-

.+_ lA*' "' - #+- I dI,\ h 24 . - l B l X Amount (OOO'| Descrlption Vote 635 o23 I Munici al Council 707 2,t84 771 Council Kabale Munici 704 2 238 353 709 Kamuli Munici al Council 801 696 Ka chorwa Munici al Council 7ro 3 374 618 7tt Council Kasese Munici 8 4tt 400 Kira Munici al Council 7t2 406 243 713 Council Kisoro Munici 2 331 982 Council Munici Ki 7L4 529 160 Koboko Munici al Council 715 629 284 Kotido Munici al Council 716 807 186 Kumi Munici al Council 717 2 9t4 388 7ta Council Munici 16 o46 686 7t9 Makindye- S sabagabo MuniciPal Council 1 454 635 Council Masindi Munici 720 1 387 188 Council Munici Mi 721 744 299 Moroto Munici al Council 722 5 462,294 Mubende Munici al Council 723 6 401 99t 724 Council Mukono Munici 10 505 394 Nansana Munici al Council J zzs 311 301 \-zzo Nebbi Munici al Council 429 909 N al Council eru Munici 727 I 910 156 728 Council o Munici N 1 o59 681 Council Rukun ri Munici 729 2 851 608 Sheema Munici al Council 730 3 528 439 73t Council Tororo Munici 9 o56 849 Abim District 801 5 061 3a2 Ad umani District 802 5 086 244 District 803 3 62L o37 District AIebto 804 7 t44 543 805 Amolatar District 2 946 471 Amudat District 806 9 513,880 Amuria District 807 3 s99 449 Amuru District --808 2 394 342 District A 809 3 190 840 Arua District 810 5 310 694 Budaka District 811 -_*3-- /{* M 'l-,1.i- t,

13104 MINISTERIAL STATEMENT The total requirement for the requisite road equipment units for this purpose is $70 million, which we hope can be funded through debt financing using the same scheme under which we got the 1,115 units in 2017. My ministry is in the process of procuring road construction equipment for the new districts, as I have said, but we need another Shs 29 billion for the vibro rollers, tippers and water bowsers. These were not included in the tranche which you gave us last time. We shall continue engaging through both the Budget Committee, Committee on Physical Infrastructure, and the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development to avail Shs 29 billion so that we can complete the purchase. Zonal equipment centres Madam Speaker, the zonal equipment centres are currently housed within the premises of the regional mechanical workshops. The ministry had planned to create nine zonal centres in Moroto, Mbale, Jinja, Gulu, Arua, Luweero, Hoima, Mbarara, and Kabale at an estimated cost of Shs 45 billion. We shall continue engaging the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development on this endeavour. The zonal equipment centres operate shared road equipment such as bulldozers, excavators, backhoe loaders, self-loaders and low beds. While the shared equipment is insufficient to cater for the requirements of the entire country, its availability has been greatly reduced due to insufficient maintenance funding. That is a requirement for additional money. Mechanical Engineering Training and Advisory Centre (METRAC) Madam Speaker, since 2017 when the ministry acquired the new equipment, the ministry has implemented several regional training sessions for district operators. While this training format was not sustainable, it was the only option given the circumstances. In 20l8, the Government of Japan, through the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), gave a grant of $2.3 million to the Government of Uganda for the construction of the Mechanical Engineering Training and Advisory Centre in Luwero. Phase I of the project, comprising a gatehouse, classroom block, maintenance block, and administration block, have been completed and the project has been handed over. It is just a few kilometres from Luweero town. Here, we shall train and retrain operators so that we have - because the machine performance will be as good as the man behind the operation. If we have a bad operator – and, in most cases, what we have seen is that people have drivers, not operators. In this centre, we are going to train operators and we are working with the Ministry of Education and Sports so that they can also be tested under the Directorate of Industrial Training (DIT) and given certificates of equivalent so that they can be able to be employed outside. Madam Speaker, phase 2 of METRAC requires Shs 9.8 billion, which began this financial year. So far, the Government has availed Shs 1 billion for the construction of a few of the amenities. Mt Elgon Labour-Based Training Centre Madam Speaker, Mt Elgon Labour-based Training Centre (MELTC) is a national training centre under the Ministry of Works and Transport for applying labour-based technology (LBT) in the rehabilitation and maintenance of national, district, urban and community access roads. The training centre is located 20km from Mbale City, along the Mbale-Budadiri Road and adjacent to Uganda Technical College, Elgon. Madam Speaker, MELTC provides training and capacity building in developing, maintaining, and utilising critical road infrastructure assets in the District, Urban, and Community Access Road (DUCAR). Its contribution to the DUCAR network includes:

Madam Speaker, before I come to the issue of how the chairperson left the committee voluntarily, there were serious issues regarding the procurement of the company to do inspections. At that time, the committee sat and found that the intention of the Government to inspect vehicles was a good one; for purposes of safety. What was not acceptable to the committee and Parliament was that they had ring-fenced or monopolised the inspection yet there were several workshops, garages and companies that were ready to inspect. As a result, the pricing, the cost of the inspection regime were too high. For example, the trucks and buses were cost at Shs 1,000 twice a year. The saloon cars were priced at Shs 100,000. The question then arose. In terms of spending time to inspect, the two vehicles, which one would take more time? This House advised that the Government should go back and revise the rates. The boda bodas were supposed to be inspected twice at Shs 60,000, twice a year, every six months. Those were the issues raised. Thirdly, the company and only four testing centres; one on Bombo Road- within Kampala. How would you expect a vehicle in Moroto, Bushenyi, to be driven to Kampala, for inspection and to pay that amount of money? Those were the recommendations that this Parliament made. There were other unethical issues that took place within the committee and also within the Ministry of Works; conflict of interest. Therefore, based upon that, the chairperson, having read the mood in the committee, offered to step back from chairing the committee. That is how we ended up there, Madam Speaker.

Madam Speaker, I would now like to move to regional referral hospitals – that is on page 51. Observations and recommendations Understaffing Table 17 is self-explanatory. Bullet (2) is on unspent wage of regional referral hospitals, as of Mid-Term Financial Year 2023/2024. On page 53, there is a table showing unspent wage. The committee had a challenge, that much as they have now been cleared to recruit, by the time workers are deployed, it will be June. So, of that Shs 17.23 billion in table 18, around 80 per cent is going to go to the Consolidated Fund. The committee was thinking: can this money be re-voted? I am not a custodian of the Public Finance Management Act, but I will let the House guide on whether the money that has not been spent on wage can be re-voted to other areas of the health sector that need a one-off expenditure. On page 53, there is the upgrade of Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital. The committee recommends that Shs 8.1 billion and non-wage recurrent of Shs 6 billion be provided to enable the complete transfer of Entebbe Hospital to a regional referral hospital. Madam Speaker, remember that Entebbe was a district hospital for Wakiso, but it is now a regional referral hospital. So, we need that money to enable it to operate fully. Madam Speaker, I would like to draw your attention to page 54 on dilapidated infrastructure in regional referral hospitals. The committee recommends that: 1. The Ministry of Health should assess all regional referral hospitals and quantify the amount required for rehabilitation; 2. The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development reinstates Shs 20.3 billion withdrawn from regional referral hospitals for development. This money was cut last year and hospitals such as Soroti Regional Referral Hospital are in a very dilapidated state; 3. The assessment be done in regional referral hospitals about the status of mortuaries in Financial Year 2024/2025. For Financial Year 2024/2025, Moroto and Arua regional referral hospitals should be prioritised for the construction of modern mortuaries, due to the very dilapidated state of the existing ones. Therefore, Shs 1.5 billion should be provided for the two mortuaries; 4. Shs 11.8 billion be provided to the Ministry of Health to enable it carry out the much- needed expansion and rehabilitation of Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, phase one. For those of you who have been there, it is in a very dilapidated state and remember, they separated conjoined twins. So, there is a lot of work being done there; and 5. The Government should look into the possibility of acquiring a grant or loan for the rehabilitation of dilapidated hospitals.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I thank the chairperson and the members for a well elaborated report. On the issue of the Italian loan, in 2018, we were invited to Moroto with all the technical people in Karamoja district by district to plan for the loan. However, I am surprised that some of the Health Centres that were budgeted for are missing in the list that was already approved by districts. We need a clarification from the minister on why they deleted some of the Health Centres, including one in my constituency that was allocated Shs714 million shillings. It is not in the list so -

And that is the only hospital that I have, which is a unit, not even a Health Centre II . (Laughter) On the issue of Moroto Regional Referral Hospital, in the entire Karamoja, we do not have a refrigerator in the mortuary. For example, if a person dies, you have to take the body to Mbale, Busitema for preservation. All nine districts in Karamoja, even Soroti does not have. So you have to travel across to access the-

Thank you, Madam Speaker. My assumption is that when we do Ministerial Policy Statements, they should speak to the presidential pledges. In 2022, when the President visited Morulinga in Napak District, he made a commitment to Bishop Damiano of Moroto Catholic Diocese that he would contribute Shs 600 million to St Kizito Hospital, Matany, to take care of the cost of treating the gun violence victims, both soldiers and civilians. At that point, the hospital was at the verge of closure but the President told them to tarry on and save the situation. This was because over 3,000 people would have died. Now, the committee has not captured that. At what point do these pledges fit into the Budget?

Madam Speaker, on the issue of CT scans in regional referral hospitals, yes, as we recruit the radiologists, it is allowed in telemedicine to take a picture from Moroto and send it to a senior specialist in Kampala for interpretation and then send it back. So, tele- medicine is allowed; I was just responding to a colleague. Regarding the issue of the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan, I just want to tell Members that it is not one machine -

12686 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORTS Inspectorate of Government (IG) (i) Digitisation and digital transformation of the Inspectorate of Government. The committee recommends that an additional Shs 1.7 billion be provided to kick start the digital transformation of the institution. (ii) Insufficient wage allocation. The committee recommends that an additional Shs 0.27 billion be provided to restore the IG’s budget to the current operating level. (iii) Completion of the IG head office building project The committee recommends an additional Shs 27.718 billion be provided to the development budget of the IG to complete the construction of the head office by June 2025. (iv) Replacement of the old and damaged fleet of vehicles The committee recommends that an additional: (a) Shs 1.260 billion be provided to replace the six damaged vehicles during the bomb blast which occurred on 16 November 2021 (b) Shs 2.940 billion be provided to procure 14 double cabin vehicles. (v) Additional wage recruitment of critical staff The committee recommends an additional Shs 4,804,756,400 be provided to cater for recruitment of critical staff and additional operational costs. Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs (i) This talks about completion of the first phase of the JLOS House. The committee recommends that Shs 30 billion be provided during Financial Year 2024/2025 to the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs to cater for the completion of the first phase of the JLOS House as this will go a long way to save the Government from spending Shs 30 billion on rent annually. (ii) Recruitment of state attorneys The committee recommends that Shs 11.407 billion be provided during the Financial Year 2024/2025 to cater for the recruitment of state attorneys to increase the capacity of the ministry in handling numerous cases before them. (iii) Payment of outstanding court awards and court award arrears The committee recommends that the Government prioritises payments of court awards and court arrears to reduce the principal amounts that attract interest by providing Shs 232.875 billion to cater for settlement of the outstanding areas. (iv) Cattle compensation to war-debt claimants The Government had agreed to compensate the war date claimants in Teso, Acholi and Lango subregions for loss of livestock and other properties during the insurgency in the north. The committee recommends that the entire outstanding bill of Shs 463.211 billion be settled across three financial years of 2024/2025, 2025/2026 and 2026/2027. (v) Representation of Government in the East African Court of Justice and community meetings The committee recommends that the ministry’s travel abroad budget line be unfrozen and a provision of Shs 1 billion to facilitate Government’s representation in the East African Court of Justice and East African Community meetings be made. (vi) Operationalisation of 13 regional offices The ministry currently operates regional offices in Gulu, Moroto, Arua, Mbale, Fort Portal, Soroti, and Mbarara against the Judiciary’s 23 high court circuits.

12426 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION The Ministry of Local Government undertook to communicate to the local governments to improve the existing infrastructure to provide ramps for persons with disability on all office infrastructure. Recommendations i. The Ministry of Local Government should ensure that affirmative action for disadvantaged regions is covered in its project. ii. The Ministry of Local Government should communicate to all local governments to ensure a safe environment for people with disabilities and follow up to ensure they have implemented the infrastructure update. Induction of local leaders Madam Speaker, cases of conflict in local governments continue to persist. This is attributed to lack of induction on roles and responsibilities of different players in local governments. The Ministry of Local Government is in need of Shs 5 billion to conduct induction for newly elected local leaders in the remaining local governments. The committee observed that the induction of local leaders at this time is likely to be a waste of resources since the next general election season starts next year, and new leaders may be elected. Committee’s recommendations The committee recommends as follows: (i) The Ministry of Local Government should instead plan for induction in the Financial Year 2025/2026 for the new leaders who will be elected in the 2026 general elections, since the current leadership will be ending their term of office in the same financial year. (ii) Shillings 3 billion, from the proposed Shs 5 billion for induction in the ministry’s budget for the Financial Year 2024/2025, be allocated to facilitate the ministry in ensuring the functionality of the agro- processing facilities that were built under Community Agriculture Infrastructure Improvement Programme (CAIIP). (iii) Shillings 2 billion, from the proposed Shillings 5 billion for induction, be allocated for capacity building activities under the Ministry of Local Government. (vi) Review of Decentralisation Madam Speaker, permit me to look through the recommendations. The committee recommends that Shs 2 billion in the budget for the Financial Year 2024/2025, be provided to cover consultation and preparatory activities for the review of the decentralisation policy throughout the country. (vii) Operationalisation of the remaining five cities Madam Speaker, Parliament approved the establishment of 15 cities in 2020, of which 10 are already operational. The remaining five cities of Wakiso, Entebbe, Kabale, Moroto and Nakasongola are set to commence on 1 July 2025, and the Ministry of Local Government requires Shs 1 billion for preparatory activities. The committee recommends that funds worth Shs 1 billion for preparatory activities –

Madam Speaker, these are cities that were approved by Parliament in 2020 and they are; Wakiso, Entebbe, Kabale, Moroto and Nakasongola. (Applause) The committee recommends that funds worth Shs 1 billion for preparatory activity –

Secondly, on the issue of the new cities, I want to clarify. The current government ban is on the creation of new administrative units. The cities we are talking about; Moroto, Kabale, Nakasongola, Entebbe, and Wakiso, we are not talking about creating them, they were already created. I am talking about operationalising the units which were already created and we need a position from Parliament at this time because I am sure the Electoral Commission needs to be guided in terms of the way ahead. In terms of when they should be functional or when they start, it is the 1 July 2025. So it is not a requirement for this current budget in terms of funding them, what we now need is just Shs 1 billion shillings to carry out studies on the boundaries, on the revenue capacities and so on, which we shall then present to the Parliament. Thirdly, on the issue of ex-gratia of the local councillors. Colleagues, it is an agreed position of Parliament and it is good practice to avoid a supplementary budget if we know that it will happen. Already we are telling you that there are some funds in terms of arrears and shortfalls in the budget to pay the councillors as ex-gratia and it is coming to Shs 42 billion. When we do not include it in this year’s budget, we will create a supplementary budget even at the beginning. That is an important point we need to look at. Madam Speaker, we have prioritised physical planning because of increased urbanisation in the country. We need a fund for physical planning so that we have well-guided urbanisation in the country. We are requesting for only Shs 5 billion. Why are we bringing this and why did we bring them to the committee? They are considered at this stage as unfunded priorities and it is this House to appropriate and pronounce itself on this. I totally agree with the committee. We are going to issue a circular to all local governments to ensure that they include a ramp for persons with disabilities on their buildings. Thank you for bringing that out; it is really important. SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORTS

Thank you. Honourable members, in the Distinguished Strangers’ Gallery this afternoon, we have Hon. Simon Peter Aleper, the former Member of Parliament for Moroto. You are most welcome. (Applause) He is here to follow the proceedings on Karamoja Development Agency (KDA). In the Public Gallery this afternoon, we also have a delegation of Karamoja student leaders from higher institutions of learning. You are most welcome . (Applause) Thank you so much for coming. Join me in welcoming my uncles and aunties. (Applause)

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Honourable Prime Minister, I would like to inform you that there is a deteriorating food security situation in Moroto District following the prolonged drought experienced in that district for the last three years. Over 20,000 households with over 95,000 individuals in that district are being affected by food insecurity. The IPAs indicates that Moroto is in the third phase – that is a serious phase with many people affected. Moroto District Local Government in August last year, wrote a letter to your office indicating about the situation and requesting for food assistance to save these lives but up to date there is no response. I would like to know when you will provide for us a positive response with the aim of saving lives before things go acute.

Mr Speaker, what I know is that we have been supplying food to Karamoja under the Office of the Prime Minister, including Moroto. I cannot have the numbers of kilogrammes that we have given out because I know even in January there were trucks going to that side. And remember, after supplying you with the iron sheets, the second consignment was for food. So let me come back. Maybe you and I can meet so that we can see how to arrest the situation. We cannot allow Ugandans to die.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mine is directed to the Minister of Health. Recently, there was a situation in Moroto, and it was raised by my colleague, Hon. Faith Nakut, regarding a mother who died after being referred to Mulago National Referral Hospital. I am glad that the ministry acted immediately and a team was constituted to carry out investigations independently, and also give a report on the same matter. However, as leaders, we moved in immediately and had an engagement with the management of the hospital. A lot of issues were raised that I find very important. Moroto Regional Referral Hospital was established in –

What I would like to know is; as a regional referral hospital, it is meant to handle specialised cases. To our surprise, we found out that Moroto Regional Referral Hospital does not have an Intensive Care Unit. We would like to know when the Government plans to do this because many people are referred to the hospital but they cannot accommodate them. That is why they also keep

Mr Speaker, the ICU equipment for Moroto Regional Referral Hospital is available. We are only mobilising resources to construct the building in which to install them.

Mr Speaker, in 2011, when there was a sugar crisis, the price of sugar in Kampala was Shs 9,000 to Shs 11,000. In Napak and Moroto districts, we were buying it at Shs 17,000 and Shs 18,000. Those of us who do not grow sugarcane paid the price for the country and so, that gives me the right to speak on this matter.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I start by thanking the committee who went to carry out an assessment on the situation of Karamoja and came up with the report. I agree with them that that is the situation in Karamoja; that is how desperate it is. I want to comment on the issue of famine. It is true that for the last three years, there has been persistent drought and poor harvest due to drought and erratic rainfall. At the moment, there are districts in the region that did not have a total harvest last year. For example, Moroto did not have a harvest last year, and apparently, they are facing famine. The lack of harvest is actually the reason many Karamojong people are going to other areas in search of survival. That is why you find street children in Kampala, some of them in Hoima, Kitgum, Acholi area, and many of them in Teso. This has brought a lot of disasters because whereas they are looking for a source of survival, they are instead suffering. Some of the children that are sent are actually losing touch with their parents. This calls for the Government, first of all, to take relief food to save these people from acute malnutrition and death due to lack of food. On the need of improvement of harvest, we have always asked for water for production, especially irrigation. If Government would actually invest money in irrigation schemes for Karamoja to provide Karamojong with food, I think many of the challenges in Karamoja would be reduced, including the current insecurity. Much as it is said to be economical, part of it is just because - it is a way of survival. So, if food is there, many things would be resolved. It is true that the Government has planned and actually put some money for water but that water is more for animal watering, and they have never put efforts in terms of promoting irrigation schemes. There is also un-streamlined planning between the ministries in Government in relation to planning for Karamoja. I want to give an example of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), and the Ministry of Water and Environment. They had actually planned for water production for Karamoja, on the same site. The MAAIF goes and starts to put the mega dam, and then the Ministry of Water and Environment also comes and claims to be wanting to put money there. So, there comes conflict and at the end of the day, it is left to one ministry. But where the money for the other ministry; the Ministry of Water and Environment went, is what is special. We advised them to put another dam somewhere [Ms Ababiku] SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT

Honourable colleagues, I deliberately gave more than sufficient time to the Member from Moroto so that we get the real overview in relation to what the committee has done. The rest, I will request from you to be brief because we have to finish this by 5.30 p.m. so that we receive a report from the Minister of Internal Affairs. Hon. Okwalinga?

Mr Speaker, the matter of urgent importance I wish to raise is about health care. On Monday this week, we buried a lady in Napak. She was called Nadiye Sarah. She was going to have her first baby but she died. She was normal; she died and left a one-week-old baby. Nadiye Sarah is the 12 th woman we have counted; an elite woman who walked to Moroto Regional Referral Hospital and died. We do not count the other illiterate women because we do not know them, who are 80 per cent of the population in Karamoja. That makes me worried about the number of women dying while giving birth. There are many questions our people are raising, which are not being answered. As I speak, the population in Karamoja is planning a protest and they have put us, the leaders, on notice because of the number of mothers dying while giving birth. My prayers: one, the Ministry of Health should review what is killing mothers in Moroto Regional Referral Hospital with the possibility of addressing it with a deeper concern. Particularly, a report on what killed Nadiye Sarah is being waited for because people want that answer. Secondly, Moroto Regional Referral Hospital and other regional referral hospitals in the country should be equipped with functional ICUs. There is an ICU in Moroto but it is not functional. When there was a complication in theatre, she was rushed to Mulago. By the time she arrived in Mulago, she died. If there had been a functional ICU in this referral hospital, perhaps her life could have been saved. Number three, the Ministry of Health should deploy specialist’s anaesthetists who will supervise that function in every regional referral hospital in the country. We have a few regional referral hospitals. It is affordable for the ministry to do that. Four, because a life has been lost under circumstances, which are careless and the family is depressed, the Government should compensate that life.

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I do condole with the family and I take much consideration and pain into what my daughter, Nakut Faith, has raised on the Floor of this House. Mothers dying during labour in Moroto or in the country as a whole is not just an issue that can be said that the Ministry of Health is not doing anything about it. We all know and are aware that the rate at which mothers are dying is growing countrywide. It is not only growing because of negligence by the Minister of Health. At times, these mothers report late to the facilities. At other times, there are other complications that are beyond our health workers. In this case, indeed, they tried their best to refer this mother. It is very unfortunate but as a ministry, we are trying all the best we can. When it comes to ICU equipment not being functional, it is true, but still, our issue is insufficient funding. As a ministry, we are looking into all of these; have more ICUs at our regional referral centres. The matter of deployment of specialists has been on the Floor of this House. The ones we

Mr Speaker, I will speak on three issues, but before that, I wish to thank Hon. Rose Obigah for raising the matter of funding for the street children; UWESO is bursting with children, and they need our support to keep and rehabilitate those children. The three issues I wish to comment on are as follows: to solve the problem of the programme versus sectoral approach, I desire to see a restructuring plan from the Government. The impression coming out now is that Parliament is the one stopping the programme approach, which is not true. Even if committees are changed, and we restructure sectoral committees, as long as the rest of the Government remains constant, the programme approach will not succeed. Therefore, a restructuring plan is very important. Last year, money was given to two ministries to do dams; the Ministry of Water and that of Agriculture but both did not deliver then it went to the community and the community said they wanted the Ministry of Water, others wanted the Ministry of Agriculture and in the end, we all lost out. The issue of the programme approach needs to be sorted out. If we cannot restructure and have a plan for it, then it is better to abandon it. Regarding the issue of the science scale, I desire to see a harmonised position. This Parliament has already asked for that because when we rolled the enhanced science scale, we received a number of complaints. In some institutions, everybody became a scientist just because it was a branded science institution, even those who did not qualify. While in some institutions scientists were not paid even when they were scientists. I desire that as we process the budget, there should be a harmonised position to reduce the complaints so that everybody is served fairly. The third is about regional referral hospitals in our country. There are standard positions that are required in each regional referral hospital, without which there will be disasters. It is my wish that we consider regional referral hospitals. If they need a specialist anaesthetist, for example, in Moroto Regional Referral Hospital- yesterday we buried a woman, anaesthesia was not well provided for, Tomorrow. Mr Speaker, I will bring to your office a matter of urgent importance on that issue. Regional referral hospitals need to be supported because these are the “Mulagos” of those regions. If they are not functioning, what are we giving the people there? Should everybody come to Mulago? If we address these 3 issues, I will be a very happy woman.

11454 THE NATIONAL BUDGET FRAMEWORK PAPER FOR THE FY s 2024/2025 - 2028/2029 The committee retreats its earlier recommendation that an additional Shs 4 billion be provided to NMS for procurement of a kit of glucometers, BP machines and thermometers for 3000 health workers across the country. Uganda Virus Research Institute - money has been provided to a tune of Shs 2.6 billion. Health Service Commission for recruitment – Shs 500 million, Uganda Blood Transfusion Shs 2.4 billion - we need blood in this country. Kawempe Regional Referral Hospital requested an additional Shs 6.1 billion for the recruitment of additional staff and also a funding gap of 0.87 be provided to Kawempe for maintenance of equipment. Kiruddu Hospital funds have been provided and the details are in the report. Mulago National Referral Hospital money was provided. Mr Speaker, generally, all the hospitals’ money was provided for including all the regional referral hospitals of Soroti, Jinja, Masaka, Fort Portal, Hoima, Mubende, Lira, Entebbe, Naguru, Kawempe, Yumbe, Kiruddu and Moroto. All these have been provided for, Mr Speaker. Committee on Tourism, Trade and Industry, page 180 The committee recommends that the Government should expedite the appointment of the Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB) and allocate an additional budget of Shs 9.4 billion to develop exports and discover new markets for Uganda in view of the worsening trading imbalances recently noticed after AGOA. Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) should be supported to support our export sector with an additional resource. In conclusion, Mr Speaker, we have Annex 2, which provides a summary of the funding requirements to cater for critical Government programmes. Therefore, in accordance with Section 9(8) of the Public Finance Management Act, 2015 and Rule 145 of the Rules of Procedure of Parliament, the committee recommends that the proposed National Budget Framework Paper of the Financial Year 2024/2025 to the Financial Year 2028/2029 be approved by this Parliament with amendments as per the committee’s recommendations. I beg to report, Mr Speaker. (Applause)

Madam Speaker, I beg to designate the following honourable members to the standing Committee on National Economy: 1. Hon. Ikojo John Bosco – Chairperson; and 2. Hon. Robert Migadde - Deputy Chairperson. The following are designated as members: 1. Hon. Joram Ruranga - Elderly; 2. Hon. Simon Peter Opolot - Kanyum; 3. Hon. Tonny Ayoo - Kwania; 4. Hon. Joy Katali - Jinja; 5. Hon. Jane Avur Pacuto - Pakwach; 6. Hon. James Baba Boliba - Koboko; 7. Hon. Geoffrey Eric Mutiwa – Bunyole West; 8. Hon. Betty Chelain - Amudat; 9. Hon. Nathan Byanyima – Bukanga North; 10. Hon. Micah Lolem - Upe; 11. Hon. Francis Kazini Twinomujuni - Buhaguzi; 12. Hon. Sylvia Bahireira Tumwekwase - Kamwenge; 13. Hon. Peggy Joy Waako – Elderly; 14. Hon. Aisa Agaba – Bugangaizi East; 15. Hon. Midius Natukunda - Rukungiri; 16. Hon. Peterkhen Lochap - Bokora; 17. Hon. Godfrey Were Odero – Samia Bugwe South; 18. Hon. Jennifer Ayoo - Kalki; 19. Hon. Jane Awich - Kaberamaido; 20. Hon. Stella Atyang - Moroto; 21. Hon. Hillary Lokwang – Napore West; 22. Hon. Joseph Komol – Dodoth North; 23. Hon. Alex Byarugaba - Isingiro; 24. Hon. Naome Kibaaju – Sheema North; 25. Hon. Moses Ogwal Goli – Dokolo North; 26. Hon. Juliet Achayo Lodou – Ngora County; 27. Hon. Simon Peter Wokorach – Aswa County; 28. Hon. Bashir Lubega – Mubende Muncipality; 29. Hon. Agnes Taaka - Bugiri; 30. Hon. Sylvia Vicky Awas - Nabilatuk; 31. Hon. Henry Maurice Kibalya – Bugabula South; 32. Hon. Oliver Katwesigye - Buhweju; 33. Hon. Stephen Kangwagye - Bukanga; and 34. Hon. Abdi Fadhil Kisos Chemaswet - Soi. I beg to designate.

Honourable Prime Minister, I think what you need to do is to liaise with the Ministry of Works and Transport. Indeed, it is first-class tarmac and there are no humps at all even in the town centres. One can cruise from Tirinyi up to Soroti non-stop – actually up to Moroto. There are no humps anywhere. That is a little dangerous.

When we process a Bill, the person who assents to it is the President of the Republic of Uganda. It does not go through the Office of the President, but it goes directly to His Excellency, the President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Hence, the Vice-President may not be aware of the Bill that we sent. However, the person to respond to that should be the Attorney-General because he is the Legal Advisor of the country. LAYING OF PAPERS REPORT OF THE OPENING UP OF NEW AREAS (LAKE KYOGA, HOIMA AND KADAM-MOROTO BASINS) FOR PETROLEUM ACTIVITIES

Madam Speaker, if I make this statement, those airplanes are usual airplanes. They go to do reconnaissance; to find out using aerial surveys, to see the ground and see what would be available so that we are ready for future development. Having said that, I have to lay these papers on the Table. The purpose of this statement is to submit to Parliament a detailed report on Lake Kyoga, Hoima and Moroto-Kadam Frontier Basins and report on evaluation and impact assessment studies undertaken in areas to be opened for petroleum activities. The report is on what those airplanes were looking for. This submission is in accordance with sections 47(5) and 47(6) of the Petroleum Exploration Development and Production Act, 2013, also referred to as the Upstream Act. At this sitting of Parliament, I hereby lay on the Floor three evaluation reports on the areas; that is Lake Kyoga, Hoima and Moroto-Kadam Frontier Basins to be opened up for petroleum activities. If any of you wants to go and do some activity there, such as exploration, you should apply; you are free to go. These are three reports of impact assessments and studies and a detailed report on areas to be opened. These reports are not simple to lay. I have to carry them almost on my head. I beg to lay. (Laughter)

These are the evaluation reports of different areas for exploration; this one is for Kadam-Moroto Basin and it also has a big book. The title is, “Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production Activities of the area.” These are the reports -

Honourable minister, on the one you are calling a big book, you should say, “It is an Impact Assessment on the Basin Proposed for Petroleum Activities for Moroto- Kadam Basin.” The origin is from the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development. Read it like I am saying.

I will read the other one. The big one here is the Impact Assessment of the New Basins Proposed for Petroleum Activities; that is the Moroto-Kadam Basin.

11121 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA TUESDAY, 28 NOVEMBER 2023 iii. Valuation the Preliminary Data and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Moroto- Kadam Basin. iv. Report on the areas to be opened up for petroleum activities, combining a simple report on all of them. I beg to lay. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise on rules 31 and 32. Wouldn’t it be procedurally right for the title of the report to capture the two basins in Elgon-Kadam Basin and Moroto-Kadam Basins? That would be the appropriate title for this. This is both a political question and a pride of the communities.

11138 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT viii) There is poor coordination during implementation, shoddy and incomplete work in most of the facilities. Madam Speaker, like I said, the committee visited the two sub-regions of Karamoja and Teso based on the background information that is highlighted below. Karamoja’s prevailing pastoral and agro- pastoral production systems are characterised by long dry spells and cyclical droughts that are exacerbated by climate change. The scarcity of water associated with the drought is considered the greatest risk to agricultural development. In addition, a considerable number of valley tanks - up to 20,000 cubic metres and wells - have been constructed across the sub-region, but most have dried up due to the long dry season. Much of the existing water storage infrastructure suffered from consequences of years of utilisation without proper operation and maintenance. Furthermore, water catchment areas supplying water to the water storage sites are under threat due to overgrazing, forest destruction, bushfires and increasing charcoal production. Like in other regions, Teso sub-region depends on agriculture as a key economic activity. However, the area has been experiencing erratic and unpredictable rainfall, which has resulted into frequent floods, water logging and severe prolonged drought, contributing to food insecurity. The Government has established a number of water-for-production facilities, but the demand is still high. It is against this background that the committee conducted a field visit to Karamoja and Teso, to assess the selected water-for-production facilities. The objectives of the field trip are captured under 3.0, the methodology is under 4.0. After the field trip, the committee had an engagement with the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries; Ministry of Water and Environment and; Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. The sites that were visited are in 4.2 that is; in Moroto, Nakonyen Valley Dam; Amudat District, Katotin Small Scale Irrigation Scheme and Kosike Valley Dam. In Kaabong, the committee visited Longoromit Valley Dam and Usake Valley Dam. In Kotido, the committee visited Kaoyangorok Valley Dam and Kailong Valley Dam. In Abim, the committee visited Kawomeri Valley Dam and Kanu Valley Dam; in Soroti, the committee visited Alere Small-Scale Irrigation scheme; in Bukedea, Acomai Irrigation Scheme and Akero Valley tank. In Kumi, Amosingo Small-Scale Irrigation Scheme and Agurut Valley tank; while in Serere, the committee visited Opapa Small- Scale Irrigation Scheme. Findings in Nakonyen, Moroto District. The committee was informed that work commenced in January 2023. The facility, after completion, would have a capacity of 1,580,000 cubic metres and would serve the people of Tapac and the neighbouring communities. The committee was informed that a cost of Shs 9.1 billion was to be spent. Committee observations The cost of the project has been increasing over time. The original cost was Shs 8.1 billion, but at the time of the committee visit, it had increased to Shs 9.1 billion. As of October 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries had revised the cost to Shs 10.9 billion. After nine months, the project is behind schedule and may not be completed within the planned activities.

Madam Speaker, I agree with you that all the water that comes from the mountains of Elgon, Napak and Moroto slope toward Teso and that is why we have many floods in Katakwi and Bukedea. Honourable colleagues, I just want you to be patient with us. The Prime Minister has just announced here that we are making preparations to get some money from the supplementary to be able to respond. I am going to bring a report here and you will see how many schools our ministry has tried to support at your constituency level, because of you. We are trying our best to see how to support you, Members, amidst - Even this morning, I was in the stores. The Prime Minister sent me to the stores this morning to confirm what we have in terms of iron sheets and relief and what quantity we can take to the people. Madam Speaker, we are going to support all the Members, constituencies and the districts that have been affected by the floods. That is my word.

Thank you, Madam Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to engage the Prime Minister. I would like to raise two issues. First, earlier on, I raised the issue of the status of the Moroto Road regarding the trucks that were ferrying out materials and we had a discussion on the weighbridges. The Prime Minister promised that they would bring temporary bridges. I would like to use this opportunity, since the Minister of Works and Transport is here, if he can tell us when exactly they can do that because we have a big challenge. Secondly, I would also like to inquire about what we requested for; a mortuary. We told you that the whole of Karamoja subregion does not have a mortuary. Therefore, we move bodies all the way to Mbale. We always have to engage UPDF to assist us with the facility in Mbale, which has also become a bit costly and difficult. This is because sometimes we find their mortuary is already filled up, so we have to hang in there. That is why I want to inquire from the Prime Minister when she thinks she can also help us with that facility so that we are able to help our people. Thank you.

Madam Speaker, I have been to Moroto Regional Referral Hospital and what he is talking about is true. The facility that they use does not have a cooler; it is like a store. Therefore, bodies decompose. I request that the Member puts this in writing again.

11042 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT of release of funds was expected to have a negative effect. For example, where money for agriculture enterprises came after the planting seasons had passed. In Karamoja, funds were received around the same time when a cultural festival was taking place and there were reports that the funds went into merrymaking. In Kole District, it was reported that some beneficiaries died before receiving funds applied for. In other cases, people believe it was free money from the Government; they used it for household purchases, sharing with family, construction and gambling. Some referred to PDM as “Personal Drinking Money” and this is a case in Karenga district. ln a few cases, beneficiaries declined to take the entire Shs 1 million, opting for small amounts they felt could be repaid easily. The Parish Revolving Funds available for borrowing are likely to reduce due to cases of extortion, excessive charges and operational costs. For example, those in Karenga, Abim and Napak Districts in Karamoja have to travel over 100 km either to Kitgum, Kotido or Moroto District to access banking and mobile money services, which is extremely costly to the beneficiaries. Committee observations The committee observed that: (i) It may be too early to conclude on whether funds were properly being utilised, since funds were being received in tranches and some beneficiaries had just received the money. However, incidents of misuse were noted. (ii) Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development emphasised the need for all stakeholders to ensure proper utilisation of disbursed funds by the households. (iii) Ministry of Local Governments acknowledged most of the challenges and explained that some efforts were underway to resolve them. The ministry noted that the main PDM guidelines should be followed, while others were clarifications on the guidelines that were not properly understood. (iv) It was observed that some banks have provided some gadgets to SACCOS, for example, Post Bank and Centenary Bank to ease the processes. In August 2023, Post Bank developed the Wendi platform as a mobile wallet to enable beneficiaries to access the funds without having to go to the bank. Other banks had also deployed apps for PDM and some were already rolling them out. (v) Most beneficiaries, especially in Karamoja subregion were incurring a lot of expenses in the process of fulfilling the requirements to receive the funds. For example, the beneficiaries from Abim, Karenga, Kaabong and Napak have to incur costs on transport, accommodation and feeding as they travel to either Kitgum, Kotido or Moroto to access banking and Mobile Money services. This has a far-reaching impact on the success of the programme, since they have to refund monies they could have borrowed to facilitate all these processes after receiving the PDM funds. (vi) The beneficiaries from some districts, on top of travelling long distances to access banking services, have to spend nights on the verandahs due to the large number of clients that the banks have to serve. This example is in Napak where sometimes over a hundred people have to spend a night in front of the bank, waiting to be served the following day. The committee recommends that; (i) The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development should ensure that all funds are released as planned and in a timely manner.

10783 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2023 Mr Speaker, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development is leading the formulation of a comprehensive National Petroleum Policy following the review of the National Oil and Gas Policy, 2008 and Energy Policy, 2002 to address the entire petroleum value chain and emerging issues. The new policy will create a conducive environment for faster and efficient exploration, development, production and commercialisation of discovered resources and utilisation of petroleum products in the country while acknowledging the energy transition initiatives. We plan to conclude the policy before the end of this financial year. Exploration In an effort to increase our resource base, we issued exploration licences to Armour Energy Ltd over the Kanyawataba area, Oranto Petroleum Ltd over the Ngassa Shallow and Deep in 2017 and, more recently (2023), we issued exploration licence to UNOC over the Kasurubani Block and DGR Global over the Turaco Block. My ministry is also increasing efforts to explore more petroleum areas in new basins such as the Kadam-Moroto basin where oil seeps have been identified on the surface as well as Kyoga and Hoima basins. We still have potential in those areas. Development and production Mr Speaker, the drilling of development and production wells was launched on 24 January 2023 at the Kingfisher field by H.E. the President of the Republic of Uganda, witnessed by H.E. the Vice-President, among others. Development and production drilling for the Tilenga project also commenced in June 2023. A total of 11 wells have been drilled, eight in the Tilenga and three in the Kingfisher area. These wells are being drilled using three rigs in the Tilenga project and one rig in the Kingfisher project. At peak production, all fields mentioned above will produce 230,000 barrels of oil per day for five years. The Tilenga project will produce 190,000 barrels of oil per day at peak, while the Kingfisher field will produce 40,000 barrels of oil per day at peak. In total, the above production will require a total of 457 wells and 35 well pads. Mr Speaker, out of the 457 wells, 426 will be for Tilenga, while 31 will be for Kingfisher. Construction of the central processing facilities both at Kingfisher and Tilenga is ongoing, and on schedule to be ready by 2025. The central processing facilities do the primary processing before crude oil is subjected either to the refinery or for export through the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.

10801 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2023 the prescribed time to ensure the timely preparation of the treasury memoranda and timely implementation of recommendations of Parliament; NOW, THEREFORE, Parliament, in accordance with Article 163(5) of the Constitution and Section 19(4) of the National Audit Act, 2008, resolves to adopt the recommendations of the Auditor-General in respect to the following local government entities: Entities under the Public Accounts Committee (Local Government) 1. Mbale District Local Government; 2. Mbale City; 3. Namisindwa District Local Government; 4. Manafwa District Local Government; 5. Bulambuli District Local Government; 6. Kibuku District Local Government; 7. Tororo District Local Government; 8. Sironko District Local Government; 9. Budaka District Local Government; 10. Busia District Local Government; 11. Busia Municipal Council; 12. Butaleja District Local Government; 13. Kapchorwa District Local Government; 14. Kapchorwa Municipal Council; 15. Kween District Local Government; 16. Tororo Municipal Council; 17. Bukwo District Local Government; 18. Pallisa District Local Government; 19. Bududa District Local Government; 20. Soroti District Local Government; 21. Soroti City; 22. Amolatar District Local Government; 23. Kaberamaido District Local Government; 24. Kalaki District Local Government; 25. Serere District Local Government; 26. Amuria District Local Government; 27. Dokolo District Local Government; 28. Bukedea District Local Government; 29. Katakwi District Local Government; 30. Kapelebyong District Local Government; 31. Otuke District Local Government; 32. Kumi Municipal Council; 33. Kumi District Local Government; 34. Ngora District Local Government; 35. Nabilatuk District Local Government; 36. Nakapiripirit District Local Government; 37. Karenga District Local Government; 38. Kotido District Local Government; 39. Kotido Municipal Council; 40. Amudat District Local Government; 41. Kaabong District Local Government; 42. Moroto District Local Government; 43. Moroto Municipal Council; 44. Abim District Local Government; 45. Napak District Local Government; 46. Kamuli District Local Government; 47. Kamuli Municipal Council; 48. Iganga District Local Government; 49. Iganga Municipal Council; 50. Jinja District Local Government; 51. Jinja City; 52. Northern Division, Jinja City; 53. Southern Division, Jinja City; 54. Kaliro District Local Government; 55. Buyende District Local Government; 56. Mayuge District Local Government; 57. Bugiri District Local Government; 58. Bugiri Municipal Council; 59. Namayingo District Local Government; 60. Namutumba District Local Government; 61. Njeru Municipal Council; 62. Lugazi Municipal Council; 63. Luuka District Local Government; 64. Bugweri District Local Government; 65. Buikwe District Local Government; 66. Mukono District Local Government; 67. Mukono Municipal Council; 68. Wakiso District Local Government; 69. Nansana Municipal Council; 70. Makindye-Ssabagabo Municipal Council; 71. Kira Municipal Council; 72. Mpigi District Local Government; 73. Nakaseke District Local Government; 74. Luwero District Local Government; 75. Mityana District Local Government; 76. Mityana Municipal Council; 77. Buvuma District Local Government; 78. Entebbe Municipal Council; 79. Butambala District Local Government; 80. Kayunga District Local Government; 81. Nakasongola District Local Government; 82. Masaka District Local Government; 83. Masaka City; 84. Kimaanya-Kabonera City Division; 85. Nyendo-Mukungwe City Division; 86. Kalungu District Local Government; 87. Gomba District Local Government;

10715 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2023 2. Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development. 3. Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities, Vote 022. 4. Uganda Cancer Institute, Vote 114. 5. Makerere University Business School, Vote 138. 6. Auditor-General, Vote 131. 7. National Citizenship and Immigration Control, Vote 120. 8. Ministry of ICT and National Guidance, Vote 20. 9. Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs, Vote 004. 10. Busitema University, Vote 111. 11. Uganda Management Institute, Vote 140. 12. Ministry of East African Community Affairs, Vote 021. 13. Uganda Heart Institute, Vote 115. 14. Directorate of Government Analytical Laboratory, Vote 305. 15. Uganda Blood Transfusion Services, Vote 151. 16. Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, Vote 170. 17. Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital, Vote 164. 18. Masaka Regional Referral Hospital, Vote 169. 19. Moroto Regional Referral Hospital, Vote 175. 20. Directorate of Ethics and Integrity, Vote 112. Missions Abroad: 1. Mission in Belgium, Vote 219. 2. Mission in Geneva, Vote 214. 3. Mission in England, Vote 202. 4. Mission in France, Vote 224. 5. Mission in Italy, Vote 220. 6. Mission in Japan, Vote 215. 7. Mission in China, Vote 212. 8. Mission in Abu Dhabi, Vote 230. 9. Consulate in Guangzhou, Vote 232. 10. Mission in Germany, Vote 225. 11. Mission in Canada, Vote 203. 12. Mission in India, Vote 204-“(Interjection) - I beg your pardon.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I would like to thank the minister for the statement. However, I also want to inform our Government that there are districts like Moroto, which borders Kenya. If we talk about COVID-19 still being around, then we should also be careful with the influx because there are places that are not controlled, that people move in and out. Secondly, what long term effect do testing kits like swapping have on people, especially those that are tested all the time? If you say COVID-19 is still around, then why is it that we only do it for particular sessions? Why can’t we have routine tests for other communities? Thank you.

10510 MINISTERIAL STATEMENT Enactment of the Physical Planners Registration Act, 2022 was also done and we are now in the process of looking at the regulations. The Permanent Secretary requested the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development and the National Planning Authority to ensure that all infrastructure developments by MDAs with a special component comply with the fiscal planning. Mr Speaker, the ministry with the support from World Bank - that is Competitiveness and Enterprise Development Project (CEDP) - prepared the first National Fiscal Development Plan and Cabinet approved it in November last year. Regional plans have also been prepared for the Albertine Region and the Northern Uganda Economic Corridor. Districts of Wakiso, Moroto, Nwoya, Kikuube, Kabarole, Bududa, Bunyangabu, Nakaseke and Budaka have physical development plans. There are a number of physical development plans still under preparation, which include the Bwebajja Physical Development Plan, the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area Physical Development Plan, and the Jinja/Kampala and Mpigi Infrastructure Corridor Plan. A number of urban councils have prepared physical development plans and it is noteworthy that many of these have attained high levels of implementation. They include Gulu, Arua Cities, Pader, Kagadi, Bulisa Town Councils, among others. The table below summarises the status of physical development plans in the country and the details of the specific local government are also attached as Annex 1. We have one National Physical Development Plan, two regional physical development plans, then out of the 135 districts, we have nine that have complied. Out of the 11 cities, we have three; out of the 31 municipalities, we have 17. Out of the 1,488 subcounties, we have 198; for town councils, we have 47 out of 585. Challenges While Government has made effort to support physical planning in the country, a lot still remains undone. The number of planned local governments above speak for themselves. Even where physical development plans have been prepared, their implementation still remains a challenge. A lot of the challenges are faced in the implementation of the Physical Planning Act can be attributed to the increasing land use pressures, occasioned by the country’s quest for economic development, high rate of population growth and inadequacies in physical planning. The latter is mostly attributed to inadequate funding levels and governance gaps. The following are the specific challenges that the country has to deal with in the implementation of the Physical Planning Act; 1. Most of the planning that should result in visible results is done at the local government level. Unfortunately, these local governments are grossly underfunded, resulting into low prioritisation exhibited through low budget allocations to develop, review and implement the physical development plans, especially at subcounty and district level. 2. Capacity gaps, human resource, equipment and training. Inadequate awareness creation on physical planning, hence low levels of appreciation of physical planning and development control. 4. Ineffective coordination at central and local government levels. 5. Weak enforcement mechanisms. 6. Failure to formulate ordinances; for cities and bylaws for municipalities and town

Most obliged. Now, the challenge of equipment cuts across the whole country. I am from Karamoja - and Moroto District in particular - where most equipment is grounded and there is no way this equipment can be repaired because our service station is in Gulu. Honourable minister, who is responsible for transporting this equipment, say, from Moroto to Gulu, where there is a service facility? Then the other one is the good news from our dear President. He directed for allocation of Shs 1 billion to improve the roads in this country. But when we get in touch with our local governments, they say that the guidelines are not yet clear and they are fearing to touch this money. Honourable minister, when will the guidelines reach the district local governments so that the roads are rehabilitated? We are already in the second quarter- (Member timed out.)

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Honourable minister, there is electricity instability in Moroto District due to breakdowns. Electricity in Moroto is used for lighting houses. It comes only in the evening and in the morning, it goes off, and the reason they give is that the lines are being worked on. So, electricity in Moroto is only used for lighting houses but not for boosting the economy. Electricity is not supposed to be used for only lighting houses but it should help Ugandans to boost their economy. It should run workshops; it should run other businesses, other than only being used for lighting. Honourable minister, lines are running across Moroto District, but people are not able to tap them because of a lack of transformers. For instance, you can find a line running over seven or 10 kilometres without transformers in between, and yet there are institutions like schools in the same area. I thought that when we were connecting those lines, the institutions should be given the first priority. These institutions bring the burden back to us, Members of Parliament, by asking us to give them solar power to enable the students study. Mr Speaker, I wish you consider that so that these institutions are taken as a priority, including community members living along the stretch of around 10 or seven kilometres without power. There are many applications; for example, when you are in Moroto, from Nadunget, the airfield, beyond Hotel Africana, there is no transformer. It is only Hotel Africana –(Member timed out.)

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I request the learned Attorney-General to share an update on the compensation of the cattle debt claimants in Northern Uganda, especially Omoro District. I would like to appreciate the Prime Minister; she is always on the ground and gets things done. When I raised two issues in December, one of them was the issue of Moroto Road. She went on the ground and made sure that now we have a contractor who is doing the design of the road. I thank you very much, Madam Prime Minister, as I wait for the update from the learned Attorney-General. Thank you very much.

Honourable, we agreed that the minister would update the House tomorrow. Hon. Phyllis Chemutai and then Hon. Komakech. I pick Kyotera, Hon. Mayanja, Hon. Ssekitoleeko, Hon. Mapenduzi and Moroto. Yesterday, Hon. Mapenduzi hijacked another Member’s time. They shared the two minutes so I have allowed him so that he can share the two minutes with Hon. Muwuma. (Laughter)

Thank you. Moroto.

Thank you, Mr Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I would like to thank the minister for her presentation. Three months ago, I presented a document, which was spelling out all the challenges that teachers face especially in Karamoja Sub- Region. It is very clear that Karamoja is one of the most remote areas in this country and it reflects in the education sector, if you look at the schools, especially Government-aided schools. We still have a big challenge of teachers who have nowhere to sleep; so, they walk distances, almost 10 to 15 kilometres and this has highly affected them. Secondly, most of them are not on the payroll and they teach because they are trained and have sympathy for the students. So, it is very important for us to focus on such areas to see how to give more support in terms of providing amenities that can support. Where the country is headed, we are always talking about sciences. And some of the scholarships given by the Government mainly target students who have studied sciences. How do we get this kind of students if we do not even have facilities? In Moroto, we do not have laboratories or anything; so, these students are faced with a lot of problems. However, we would have to mainly look at the facilities for the teachers in terms of infrastructure. If you go to Moroto High School – which has produced very many leaders in this Government – you find almost 3,000 students sharing one pit- latrine – they line up – it is a bit difficult. Even water – (Member timed out.)

In conclusion, Mr Speaker, I appeal that we invest in sports such that we continue being together and so that when a person from Arua is speaking, he will say, one Uganda, one people. If a person from Moroto is talking, he will say, one Uganda, one people so that we come together. Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Madam Speaker, I thank Hon. Ariko for raising that issue. First of all, the current outage that Hon. Ariko is pointing out is actually true. We have a challenge in north-eastern and eastern Uganda; there was vandalism that happened on the line which takes power to the eastern and north- eastern regions. Just after Kakira, four pylons were brought down and that caused what Hon. Ariko is talking about. We are putting up those pylons, temporarily, to enable power to flow. We were forced to bring power from Karuma, but the wooden line between Lira and Soroti- Opuyo could not accommodate stable power to enable manufacturing and all the processes in eastern and northern-eastern Uganda. We are only able to take 75 megawatts from Karuma through that transmission line and that power has to be shared by the whole region. 75 megawatts are not adequate to run all the industries in eastern Uganda. That explains the rationing of electricity. What is the ministry doing about it? There are a number of measures that the ministry has put in place: 1. To remedy the vandalised transmission lines. We are putting temporary structures to enable that line to continue taking power to eastern and north-eastern Uganda. 2. On the transmission of power from Karuma, one of our agencies, Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) is working on the interconnectors to improve the power flow and increase the power that can be transmitted from Karuma, which is now producing about 300 megawatts. If the line is improved, that would enable us to have a double-circuit which would enable us to provide power from Karuma to the eastern and north-eastern region. The areas which are affected are Tororo, Mbale, Soroti and Moroto and we are working to improve the power supply in those areas. The question on Umeme -

She has been sent to Moroto Hospital to - I received a letter.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I will request that you kindly allow me to run through the report in summary so that we save time. The introductory part gives details on the mandate of the committee and also indicates the task that the committee undertook; making oversight visits to the newly created cities and the districts to assess; i. The level of preparedness of these districts to relocate following the creation of the new cities; ii. To look at the status of payment of ex- gratia and honoraria for local councillors for both the cities and the districts; and iii. Looking at other matters that are related to service delivery. Background We indicated how the cities were created and I would not want to take a lot of time but it is important to mention that these cities were created and were supposed to be operational in a phased manner with clear time frames. Unfortunately, the cities of Moroto, Nakasongola, Kabale, Wakiso have not yet been operational and will be operationalised as resources are provided. It is also important to mention and to guide members who are following on their iPads, that is on page three that these cities that were created-their councillors are entitled to ex-gratia just like in other districts and the Government has been providing resources. Unfortunately, in those cities and the districts the ex-gratia that has been provided has not been coming consistently so there is a lot of money in the form of arrears that have not been given and so you can imagine how leaders are struggling without being paid consistently. We will also provide those details. When we made consultation with the Ministry of Local Government and Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, it is true that indeed resources have not been provided adequately hence the need to have the arrears cleared. The creation of the cities required that the districts from where the cities were created needed to relocate and have new administrative headquarters. You will agree that these cities are at the level of districts and so they are all higher local governments and therefore, you cannot have two higher local governments in the same area of jurisdiction. Unfortunately, both the Minister of Local Government and Minister of Finance admitted that there was no money provided to facilitate the relocation processes in the Financial Year 2023/2024 despite the urgency. The committee came up with terms of references, methodology and interacted with different stakeholders, you will find all that on page four. Madam Speaker, just to take members through the very important terms of reference, especially on page five which is very important; (i) To assess the status of payment of ex- gratia and honoraria for local councillors as of June 30th 2023. Government has been providing a conditional grant to finance ex-gratia for councillors at sub-county and town councils, municipality divisions, districts and cities. Ex-gratia is also given to municipal district and city deputy speakers. Government also provides honoraria to LCI and LCII chairpersons.

9703 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA WEDNESDAY, 19 JULY 2023 Gender, Labour and Social Development that is responsible for these children. We all have a stake in looking after them. It all comes to one thing - that we go back to parenting and valuing our families. If this is done, to assure you, we shall empty all these remand homes and all the streets, not only the streets of Kampala but all the streets in all the trading centres. Madam Speaker, I will address some of the issues that were mentioned in brief. On the issues of dilapidated structures and not having food, the budget we have does not allow us to do any developments. We are only given money for food and it is the same money that we use to transport these children to Court. In case a court session has not taken place, we bring them back. The whole financial year, we were given only Shs 640 million. That means that every quarter, we have to spend Shs 160 million to feed the children, transport them to Court and back. I would like to explain the number of remand homes that we have. Most of you are asking to know them. I do not think that is a solution. We have a Naguru Reception Centre for those – I am just giving information so that Members can know. We have Gulu, Arua and Mbale remand homes. Fort Portal, Masindi, Kabale remand homes and Kampiringisa National Rehabilitation Centre. (Interjections) I will give you the clarification. Just hold on. We have nine remand homes and one national rehabilitation centre. We have one, which is under construction in Moroto, not yet complete. My sister, Hon. Connie, raised the issue of Mbale being congested and having no food because of the budget constraints, which you all know. We are the ones who pass the budget. Mbale serves the whole region in Eastern Uganda. Originally, when they were building Mbale Remand Home, they hoped that it would serve around 60 inmates. However, right now, we have more than 200 children in these homes. After the completion of Moroto, the congestion will reduce. Madam Speaker, the issue of child marriages or teenage pregnancies is something we sometimes sugar-coat. This is defilement but where are these men who are doing this? Surprisingly, I do not know whether you expect the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development to go and search for these men who are doing this. If the parents do not come out and the girls do not report – surprisingly, even those who go to report, there is a way the system just plays around it and the cases “die” along the way.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I come from Moroto, not Karamoja. (Laughter)

First check the First Schedule. Let us resolve one issue at a time. The First Schedule has Kampala and districts of Uganda. Bundibugyo and Kasese are in Rwenzori; Busia, Butaleja, Pallisa and Tororo in Bukedi and Abim, Kaabong, Kotido and Moroto in Karamoja. Mbale, Sironko and Manafwa are in Bugisu, Bukwo and Kapchorwa in Sebei while Adjumani and Moyo are in Madi - Should I read all?

9230 MINISTERIAL STATEMENT district as a hard-to-reach area so as to benefit from funds earmarked for such areas. His questions are: a) What criteria is used to determine hard-to- reach areas? b) What is the possibility of including other areas in the hard-to-reach areas category? c) Which areas are categorised as hard-to- reach? My response is that the Ministry of Public Service observed that there were areas in some local governments that had consistently failed to attract and retain skilled and capable human resource, leading to inadequacies and gaps in the delivery of services. This was observed through inspection reports, support supervision exercises and payroll status reports. These areas were, therefore, defined as hard to reach. Hard-to-reach areas are defined as remote or insecure areas that are unable to attract and retain sufficient numbers of motivated staff because of difficult living conditions. They are, therefore, “hard to work in and hard to stay in.” These areas are characterised by remoteness, insecurity and poor infrastructure, among others. In the Financial Year 2010-2011, Government approved payment of hardship allowances of 30 per cent of the basic monthly salary for public officers working in the local governments defined as hard to reach. The following 24 areas are categorised as hard-to-reach: Kotido, Nakapiripirit, Abim, Moroto, Kaabong, Pader, Kitgum, Nwoya, Amuru, Kalangala, Gulu, Bundibugyo, Adjumani, Kisoro, Kanungu, Bukwo, Ntoroko, Buvuma, Lamwo, Namayingo, Napak, Mayuge (specifically Malonge Island), Bugiri (specifically Sigulu Island), and Mukono (specifically Koome Islands). Over the years, the Ministry of Public Service has received requests from various local governments to be considered hard-to-reach areas. Consequently, the ministry carried out a study, in the year 2020, in order to review the hard-to-reach and hard-to-stay areas in the country based on the criteria of remoteness, insecurity and poor infrastructure. Out of the 63 districts that had requested to be considered, 54 were found to have hard- to-reach and hard-to-stay spots eligible for payment of the hard-to-reach allowance. In total, 340 hard-to-reach spots were identified as the qualifying localities within the 54 districts. Madam Speaker, allow me to lay, on the Table, a full list of the hard-to-reach and hard-to-stay areas in the country. In the interest of time, Members can access it. Madam Speaker, based on the criteria used, I would like to inform the honourable member that Rubanda was not categorised as a hard-to- reach and hard-to-stay district. It is also important to note that the Ministry of Public Service has not yet implemented the revised Hard-to-Reach Framework. The current priority of the Government is the salary enhancement of all public officers in a phased approach. Madam Speaker, I got another question from Hon. Francis Adome, MP for Moroto Municipality. His question was to know the Government’s plan to rehabilitate government- aided schools in Karamoja. My response is that the Government of Uganda, in collaboration with education development partners, has been providing infrastructure support to both primary and post-primary institutions in the Karamoja subregion. All the post-primary institutions (11 secondary schools and two PTCs) benefitted from infrastructure support under the Irish Aid. All secondary schools in the Karamoja subregion implementing Universal Secondary Education were provided with additional infrastructure under the World Bank support and were provided with additional classrooms to attain the recommended classroom-student ratio of 1:60. [Ms Nabbanja] PRIME MINISTER’S TIME

9121 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 2023 Madam Speaker, after the on-going audit of the Government payroll, the ban on recruitment will also be lifted to enable cover the staffing gaps in education. Government will continue to support sports activities and entertainment talents and enforce copyrights for performing artists. Safe Water The national coverage for safe and clean water for human consumption now stands at 70 per cent; with 67 per cent in rural areas and 72 per cent in urban areas, but we still need more. In rural areas, gravity flow schemes have been completed at Lirima in Manafwa, Lukalu- Kabasanda in Butambala and Nyabuhikye- Kikyenke in Ibanda. Piped water systems have also been constructed at Nyakabingo in Rukungiri, Kabuyanda in Isingiro, and Orom Water Supply System in Kitgum-Lamwo. In addition, 40 solar-powered mini-piped schemes serving 173,000 persons have been constructed across 15 least-served districts including Lyantonde, Sembabule, Yumbe, Rakai, Buyende, Kamuli and Kakumiro. In urban areas, nine piped water supply and sanitation systems have been completed in Dokolo, Padibe - Lamwo, Odramacaku - Arua, Kagadi, Morulem and Alerek (Abim), and Kambuga II in Kanungu. Access to safe and clean water will be enhanced to achieve 85 per cent coverage in rural areas and 100 per cent coverage in urban areas by the year 2025. Next year, the main activities towards this goal include the construction of 1,540 boreholes in 1,050 villages and town wards; building 49 large, 67 medium and 80 small piped water schemes in both urban and rural areas, and the rehabilitation and maintenance of 50 water systems in growth centres. Interventions that build human capital have been allocated Shs 9.57 trillion, representing 18.2 per cent of the total budget. In addition, the Government, together with the World Bank, are implementing the $500 million in Uganda through the Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer programme to construct health centres III, IV, seed secondary schools and micro-scale irrigation facilities in local governments that do not have these facilities. Enhancing Infrastructure Stock and Quality The stock and quality of infrastructure is a key enabler for economic growth, development and social transformation. Transport Infrastructure Transport infrastructure development has been a major hallmark of Uganda’s recent economic development. The road sector in 1986 totalled 7,900 km. Today, it has expanded twenty-fold to almost 160,000 km. While only 6,700 km of today’s road network is paved, the road network now allows access to even the remotest parts of Uganda. Next financial year, we will substantially complete 16 national road projects including Atiak-Laropi, Moroto-Lokitanyala, Kawuku- Bwerenga, Namugonde-Bugiri, Nsambya- Mukwano, the Kampala Flyover and Rushere Town and Kyamate Access roads. In addition, priority will be accorded to maintenance of existing road networks, both national and District Urban and Community Access Roads (DUCAR). The Bukungu-Kagwara- Kaberamaido (BKK) Ferry and related landing sites, and Lake Bunyonyi ferries and their landing sites will also be completed. Madam Speaker, emergency repairs of the Kampala-Malaba Metre Gauge Railway were completed this year. (Applause) My team will have to come and explain this. The full rehabilitation of the Kampala–Malaba and Tororo–Gulu Metre Gauge Railway will

8849 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2023 provided for Annexure 12. The committee was informed by Mr Abaho that the vehicle could only carry a maximum of 1,000 iron sheets and as such, only 1,000 iron sheets were taken to Moroto for the launch. The committee was informed that out of the 1,000 iron sheets only 650 were used and the balance of 350 were kept in the Moroto store and to-date, they are still in Moroto store. The committee had earlier been informed that the 10,000 iron sheets requisitioned for the launch of the Community Empowerment Programme were not procured from the supplementary budget. Rather they were picked from the ones provided for under the routine budget for Karamoja. The committee, however, established that the 10,000 iron sheets were actually from the supplementary budget and not the routine budget as alleged. The committee received documentation from the Assistant Inventory Management Officer, OPM, indicating that the Head of Stores was acting on the instruction of the honourable minister and that was how the 9,000 iron sheets were released. On page 18, it shows how the 9,000 iron sheets were given out or donated. Mr Speaker, unless you guide otherwise - Members can – Should I read the names? Rt Hon. Anita Among -

8850 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT reformed warriors. The 1,000 iron sheets taken to the launch were partially distributed and up to now, the balance of 350 are still in the store at Moroto. Release and distribution of 12,200 iron sheets from the supplementary budget: The committee established that the Minister for Karamoja Affairs, Hon. Dr Mary Gorreti Kitutu directed for the release of 12,200 pieces of iron sheets from the stores for community mobilisation, and for peace-building missions in the subregion via an internal memo. The details are attached as Annex 14. Accordingly, this was cleared. The committee further established that following a security alert about the sale of OPM branded iron sheets in Namisindwa, Mr Godfrey Sseremba, the Accounting Officer, immediately halted the subsequent distribution of iron sheets on 8 February 2023. However, by that time, a total of 5,500 Iron sheets out of the 12,200 had already been distributed, leaving a balance of 6,700 in the OPM stores at Namanve. Mr Speaker, on page 21, this is how the 5,500 iron sheets were distributed: 1. 200 were given to the Minister of State for Education, Dr Joyce Moriku; 2. 500 to Rt Hon. Rebecca Kadaga Alitwala; 3. 300 to Hon. Marksons Jacob Oboth; 4. 300 to Rt Hon. Rukia Nakadama Isanga; 5. 300 to Hon. Matia Kasaija; 6. 3,000 were taken by Dr Mary Kitutu Gorreti; 7. 300 to Hon. Denis Hamson Obua; 8. 300 were given to Hon. Amos Lugoloobi; and 9. 300 were given to Hon. Fred Kyakulaga Bwino. Mode of authorisation for the release of iron sheets – let Members read the details on that. The committee established that the allocation of iron sheets to the persons named above was done through phone calls. Some recipients informed the committee that Mr Joshua Abaho, who is the PA to the Minister for Karamoja Affairs made phone calls to different recipients; their personal assistants informing them that the Minister for Karamoja Affairs had iron sheets for them at the OPM stores at Namanve. Mr Abaho further ordered the storekeepers to release the iron sheets. Regarding the method of contacting the recipients through phone calls, Mr Abaho informed the committee that he was purely working on the instructions of Hon. Dr Mary Gorreti Kitutu and not on his own accord and that he had brought the issue to the attention of the Permanent Secretary. Mr Speaker, we were not able to meet the Permanent Secretary because he was indisposed. May his soul rest in peace. Committee Observations The committee observes that the use of phone calls to contact recipients and also instruct the staff of the OPM to issue iron sheets from the store depicted a lack of adherence to the established formal procedures and inventory management in the running of the OPM store. The committee observes that the distribution of 14,500 iron sheets to persons other than the reformed warriors was a total diversion from the intention of the Community Empowerment Programme. Recommendations There accounting officer OPM cautions the staff at the OPM stores for the issuance of iron sheets from the stores based on phone calls other than following the laid down procedures and policies. Donations of iron sheets under the Ministry for Karamoja Affairs: The committee established that there is no budgetary provision for donations under the Ministry for Karamoja Affairs. The committee, therefore, observes that the use of unconventional channels and means to obtain items from the Government stores outside the well-laid-out procedures offends

8854 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT By the time Rt Hon. Prime Minister presented to the Committee, she gave us information the balance of iron sheets in the stores was at 81,554. The Rt Hon. Prime Minister informed the committee that the delays in the distribution of iron sheets was brought about by petitions from the various district local governments contesting the inclusion of lists from Members of Parliament. She indicated that so far, only three districts of Nakapiripirit, Karenga and Moroto had partially received iron sheets. The details are there. She further stated that she had been informed that Karenga District received 1,500 iron sheets. The Rt Hon. Prime Minister informed the committee that contrary to the information that was circulating in the media, she did not receive iron sheets meant for Karamoja Subregion, but instead received from the regular budget for donations, and subsequently, donated to different parts of the country. She further indicated that the decision to divert and reallocate the iron sheets requisition for delivery to Karamoja Subregion was taken solely by the Minister of Karamoja Affairs and not the Office of the Prime Minister. She informed the committee that it was unfair for the public to expect her to police the ministers under her docket, but expect minimum supervision given their mandate and competence. The diversion of iron sheets was not discussed in top management meetings with her ministers. She further indicated that she gets briefs during Cabinet meetings or during inquiries by the investigating agencies. The Prime Minister further informed the committee that she briefed the President on this matter. The Rt Hon. Prime Minister informed the committee that she set out to improve the management of stores and many internal issues as soon as she assumed office, including the introduction of the labelling, branding and specific wording for the items under the Office of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister further proposed that the diverted iron sheets be replaced in the following ways: (i) Iron sheets that were taken by leaders and have not been used be returned to the Office of the Prime Minister. (ii) The iron sheets taken and used by leaders belonging to other affirmative action regions, whose accountability has been filed and can be verified, be replaced by transferring an equal number of those from the affirmative ministries they belong to. She cited an example of replacing the diverted iron sheets for Karamoja Subregion with the ones belonging to Northern Uganda affairs and other affirmative action programmes accordingly. (iii) Investigations be expedited to bring out the truth and hold accountable those who misused the iron sheets. Observations: The committee observes that under Article 108A (2)(a) of the Constitution, the Prime Minister is the Leader of Government Business in Parliament and is responsible for the coordination and implementation of Government policies across ministries, departments and other public institutions. The committee observes that the Rt Hon. Prime Minister had taken prior steps to ensure that control and stopgap measures, such as branding of items distributed by the Office of the Prime Minister, and providing oversight to the Ministry of Karamoja Affairs through various engagements, meetings, specifically on the Community Empowerment Programme were held. When the Rt Hon. Prime Minister was informed about the diversion, she halted further issuance of the iron sheets. However, the committee observes that the Prime Minister did not effectively conduct adequate coordination and monitoring which affected the Community Empowerment Programme in the following ways:

8855 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2023 1. She failed to ensure adherence to policies and guidelines in a timely manner, which delayed the prompt implementation of the programme, yet it was an emergency intervention. For example, petitions on the conflicting lists remain unresolved to- date. 2. She did not prioritise the receipt of regular briefs and updates from the Ministry for Karamoja Affairs on the implementation of the Community Empowerment Programme, which led to undetected mismanagement of the programme by the Minister of Karamoja Affairs until a whistle-blower reported the matter to security. 3. She did not ensure that the iron sheets for the programme were stored in Moroto, as agreed upon by the stakeholders at the time of consultations. The committee disagrees with the Prime Minister’s proposal that the iron sheets taken and used by leaders belonging to other affirmative action regions, whose accountability has been filed and can be verified, be replaced by transferring an equal number of those from the affirmative ministries they belong to. The committee does not encourage these actions and instead holds each recipient personally accountable to make good the loss. (Applause) Recommendations: While the committee commends the Rt Hon. Prime Minister for the actions taken, she should be held accountable for the inadequate coordination and monitoring in some of the areas highlighted under the Community Empowerment Programme. The Prime Minister as a recipient of the iron sheets The committee established that 200 iron sheets received by the Prime Minister were meant for the Community Empowerment Programme under the supplementary budget. Recommendations: The Prime Minister makes good the loss of the 200 iron sheets donated to her by the Minister of Karamoja Affairs procured under the supplementary budget. Mr Joshua Abaho, Senior Assistant Secretary and Personal Assistant to the Minister of Karamoja Affairs The committee observes that the actions taken by Mr Abaho to allocate himself 250 iron sheets belonging to the people Karamoja Affairs was an abuse of office. We recommend the following: 1.1 The Director of Public Prosecution should prosecute Mr Abaho for the following offences; (a) Corruption contrary to Section 2(c)(f) and (h) of the Anti-Corruption Act, 2009; (b) Abuse of Office contrary to Section 11 of the Anti-Corruption Act, 2009; and (c) General prohibited conduct contrary to Section 15(1)(a) of the Leadership Code Act, 2002. Hon. Amos Lugoolobi, the Minister of State for Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Planning). Mr Speaker, Hon. Lugoolobi received 700 iron sheets and on page 39, that was how he distributed the 700 iron sheets. Committee observations The committee observes that although Hon. Lugoolobi claims to have requested for relief support from OPM for people affected by disasters in his constituency, he did not submit a copy of the letter as evidence. The committee further observes that it was wrong for the honourable minister to use public property for personal benefit.

8858 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT The committee further observed that the above mentioned recipients should not have considered a call for iron sheets from the Ministry for Karamoja Affairs as a response to their requests made to other offices in the Office of the Prime Minister. Recommendations 1. The committee recommends that OPM should develop and strengthen policies for the implementation of affirmative action programmes to strictly ring-fence respective affirmative action resources for the intended beneficiaries. 2. The committee recommends that the following recipients make good the loss of the iron sheets received and diverted from the intended beneficiaries under the supplementary budget meant for the people of Karamoja under the Community Empowerment Programme and should apologise to the people of Karamoja Subregion and this nation at large on the Floor of Parliament. These are: (i) H.E. Maj. (Rtd) Alupo Jessica Rose Epel; (ii) Rt Hon. Among Anita Annet; (iii) Hon. Akello Rose Lily; (iv) Hon. Kasaija Matia; (v) Hon. Nabakooba Judith Nalule; (vi) Hon. Musasizi Henry Ariganyira; (vii) Hon. Kirabo Agnes; (viii) Hon. Namuyangu Kacha Jenipher; (ix) Hon. Anyakun Esther Davinia; (x) Hon. Dr Moriku Joyce Kaducu; (xi) Rt Hon. Kadaga Rebecca Alitwala; (xii) Hon. Oboth Marksons Jacob; (xiii) Rt Hon. Nakadama Rukia Isanga; (xiv) Hon. Obua Denis Hamson; (xv) Hon. Kyakulaga Fred Bwino. Mr Speaker, allow me state this: though the recipients submitted accountabilities, we did not verify them because they did not attach detailed documentations in order for the committee to believe their accountabilities. So, we did not exonerate any person in relation to the accountabilities. More so, the target for the supplementary budget was clear. Therefore, we did not exonerate any person based on that. Distribution of iron sheets to district local governments Mr Speaker, I highlighted that earlier. One thousand iron sheets were taken; 650 were used and 350 remained in the stores at Moroto. Office of the Prime Minister’s stores The committee was informed by officials from OPM that there was only one store for OPM in Namanve. However, when the committee visited the site, it discovered that there was another store being rented by OPM in Namanve. The details of that is in Annex 31. The committee undertook an on-spot assessment at the OPM stores at Namanve. It is the committee’s finding that some of the iron sheets procured for Karamoja Subregion were stored in the same place together with those of relief, disaster preparedness and management and other affirmative action departments. The committee established that all the iron sheets procured for the OPM under the affirmative action departments bore the same brand as “For OPM. Not for sale.” The committee further observed that the store keepers are able to identify iron sheets meant for the different affirmative action departments because they are labelled on the sides. The stores have one ledger book, however, there is no distinction in the issuance of iron sheets for the different affirmative action departments. The committee further observed that the stores records for iron sheets were different from the numbers submitted by the Prime Minister. We have a table showing the current status of iron sheets in OPM stores. Members, you can see what is for Karamoja. The committee established that the number of iron sheets recorded as received at OPM stores from February to August 2022 for the Ministry of Karamoja Affairs is 105,658, of which, 95,044 (pre-painted) was under the

8862 SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT reported non-adherence to this requirement by the suppliers, as most of them resorted to makeshift grounds or military barracks to hold animals for some days, with the exception of Kotido and Amudat. Accordingly, some suppliers distributed directly to beneficiaries without holding them. For instance, Catalyst Investment Limited supplied goats to Abim District on 17 June 2022, as per the goods received note, and the beneficiary consent forms also indicate that the beneficiaries received the goats on that very day. This did not conform to the required 14 days in the holding grounds. The committee further established that some district veterinary officers assessed, verified and vaccinated the goats from the holding grounds of districts of origin. This includes the district veterinary officers of Abim, Napak, Moroto and Karenga, and yet this was to be done in each of the receiving districts at the respective holding grounds. The committee also established that some of the holding grounds did not have the capacity to hold a large number of animals. Holding of goats originating from different places in one holding ground by some districts in the region potentially facilitated the high spread of disease amongst the supplied goats; for example, in Amudat, the district veterinary officer indicated that he was overwhelmed with the 1,250 goats in one holding ground. Committee observations The committee observed that there were no detailed specifications for holding grounds in the contract, and as such, the suppliers and the districts allowed the goats to be kept in makeshift holding grounds incapable of sustaining the high number of goats due to lack of water and pasture required for 14 days. The committee further observed that with the exception of Kotido, all districts in the subregion do not have established animal holding grounds, and yet they are under the animal corridor region. The committee also observed that the entire planning process did not provide for comprehensive due diligence on the safe delivery and distribution of the goats, which is why the safe holding of the goats was so problematic. It was due to this poor preparation that many animals got infected as a result of the mix-up of the goats from the different parts of the country and Kenya at the delivery and receiving points. Recommendations 1. Comprehensive feasibility studies and clear specifications of the contract requirements for the implementation of the targeted Government projects be conducted before the commencement of projects. 2. The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries should construct standard animal holding grounds with the required infrastructure such as water, feeding grounds and dips per district in the Karamoja Subregion. Widespread death of goats The committee was informed by some beneficiaries during the visit to the subregion that there were widespread deaths of goats under the Community Empowerment Programme, owing to sickness, tiredness and failure to adapt to the environment. For instance, in Abim District, the LC III chairperson of Abim Town Council stated that out of the 494 Boer goats received, 455 representing 92 per cent of the goats died. In Abim Subcounty, the chairperson LC III said that out of the 450 goats, 278 died representing 62 per cent. The committee was further informed by the District Veterinary Officer of Nabilatuk that as of December 2022, out of the 4,000 East African female goats received, 2,076 died representing 52 per cent. The committee also interviewed people in Nabilatuk Town Council through random sampling from the beneficiaries who interfaced with the committee and established that 72

I put the question that Shs 12,325,254,000 be provided for under Vote 414: Mubende Regional Referral Hospital as recurrent expenditure for Financial Year 2023/2024. (Question put and agreed to.) Vote 415: Moroto Regional Referral Hospital

I put the question that Shs 11,218,897,000 be provided for under Vote 415: Moroto Regional Referral Hospital as recurrent expenditure for Financial Year 2023/2024. (Question put and agreed to.) Vote 416: Naguru Referral Hospital

Why don’t we listen to the whole list? You said we should read the list and we are reading it. Honourable members, listen to the figures. I do not think any of these Members will take this money into their pockets. 30) Vote 720: Masindi Municipal Council – Shs 11,172,470,000 31) Vote 721: Mityana Municipal Council – Shs 10,365,633,000 32) Vote 722: Moroto Municipal Council – Shs 5,143,627,000 33) Vote 723: Mubende Municipal Council – Shs 10,465,947,000 34) Vote 724: Mukono Municipal Council – Shs 19,829,177,000 35) Vote 725: Nansana Municipal Council – Shs 24,351,761,000 36) Vote 726: Nebbi Municipal Council – Shs 6,907,898,000 37) Vote 727: Njeru Municipal Council – Shs 13,394,572,000 38) Vote 728: Ntungamo Municipal Council – Shs 4,845,867,000 39) Vote 729: Rukungiri Municipal Council – Shs 9,415,996,000 40) Vote 730: Sheema Municipal Council – Shs 14,106,079,000 41) Vote 731: Tororo Municipal Council – Shs 9,365,323,000 42) Vote 801: Abim District – Shs 18,295,895,000 43) Vote 802: Adjumani District – Shs 31,965,889,000 44) Vote 803: Agago District – Shs 31,061,514,000 45) Vote 804: Alebtong District – Shs 23,689,489,000 46) Vote 805: Amolatar District – Shs 19,357,798,000 47) Vote 806: Amudat District – Shs 10,632,904,000 48) Vote 807: Amuria District – Shs 22,290,290,000 49) Vote 808: Amuru District - Shs 22,428,999,000 50) Vote 809: Apac District – Shs 20,739,922,000 51) Vote 810: Arua District – Shs 16,085,370,000 52) Vote 811: Budaka District – Shs 25,157,873,000 53) Vote 812: Bududa District – Shs 26,411,933,000 54) Vote 813: Bugiri District – Shs 34,828,388,000 55) Vote 814: Bugweri District – Shs 19,367,086,000 56) Vote 815: Buhweju District – Shs 15,085,933,000 57) Vote 816: Buikwe District – Shs 24,383,139,000 58) Vote 817: Bukedea District – Shs 26,466,423,000 59) Vote 818: Bukomansimbi District – Shs 18,428,274,000

8754 BUDGETARY PROPOSALS & ESTIMATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023/2024 60) Vote 819: Bukwo District – Shs 22,102,420,000 61) Vote 820: Bulambuli District – Shs 22,999,426,000 62) Vote 821: Buliisa District – Shs 14,874,929,000 63) Vote 822: Bundibugyo District – Shs 33,203,487,000 64) Vote 823: Bunyangabu District - Shs 19,891,642,000 65) Vote 824: Bushenyi District – Shs 28,896,953,000 66) Votes 825: Busia District - Shs 32,967,494,000 67) Votes 826: Butaleja District - Shs 33,927,473,000 68) Vote 827: Butambala District – Shs 23,446,766,000 69) Vote 828: Butebo District - Shs 16,607,616,000 70) Vote 829: Buvuma District – Shs 13,321,617,000 71) Vote 830: Buyende District – Shs 22,651,177,000 72) Vote 831: Dokolo District – Shs 21,223,707,000 73) Vote 832: Gomba District – Shs 21,231,932,000\ 74) Vote 720: Masindi Municipal Council – Shs 11,172,470,000 75) Vote 721: Mityana Municipal Council – Shs 10,365,633,000 76) Vote 722: Moroto Municipal Council – Shs 5,143,627,000 77) Vote 723: Mubende Municipal Council – Shs 10,465,947,000 78) Vote 724: Mukono Municipal Council – Shs 19,829,177,000 79) Vote 725: Nansana Municipal Council – Shs 24,351,761,000 80) Vote 726: Nebbi Municipal Council – Shs 6,907,898,000 81) Vote 727: Njeru Municipal Council – Shs 13,394,572,000 82) Vote 728: Ntungamo Municipal Council – Shs 4,845,867,000 83) Vote 729: Rukungiri Municipal Council – Shs 9,415,996,000 84) Vote 730: Sheema Municipal Council – Shs 14,106,079,000 85) Vote 731: Tororo Municipal Council – Shs 9,365,323,000 86) Vote 801: Abim District – Shs 18,295,895,000 87) Vote 802: Adjumani District – Shs 31,965,889,000 88) Vote 803: Agago District – Shs 31,061,514,000 89) Vote 804: Alebtong District – Shs 23,689,489,000 90) Vote 805: Amolatar District – Shs 19,357,798,000 91) Vote 806: Amudat District – Shs 10,632,904,000 92) Vote 807: Amuria District – Shs 22,290,290,000 93) Vote 808: Amuru District - Shs 22,428,999,000

8767 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023 8. Vote 412: Lira Hospital - Shs 120,000,000 9. Vote 413: Mbarara Regional Hospital - Shs 5,230,000,000 10. Vote 414: Mubende Regional Referral Hospital – 150,000,000 11. Vote 415: Moroto Regional Referral Hospital - Shs 120,000,000 12. Vote 416: Naguru Referral Hospital - Shs 240,000,000 13. Vote 417: Kiruddu Referral Hospital - Shs 1,530,000,000 14. Vote 418: Kawempe Referral Hospital - Shs 900,000,000 15. Vote 419: Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital - Shs 900,000,000 16. Vote 420: Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital - Shs 2,268,000,000 17. Vote 421: Kayunga Referral Hospital - Nil 18. Vote 422: Yumbe Referral Hospital - Nil

8567 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023 he gave us a lot of tips on security. It is very unfortunate that he died by a gun. He would tell us that that even when we travel out, we needed to be careful which room they have booked for us. I would then tell him that I am a civilian. He would then say, “Do not joke with the position you have; it is a position that everybody envies.” I then told him, “Now, as you teach me security I will teach you issues of gender.” I told him, “Now, you are a soldier and have come to gender, allow us to teach you gender issues.” When his daughter was getting married, he said, “You know, I have one daughter. I feel pain for her to get married and I want you people to come home.” I told him, “My brother, I will not be able to attend the marriage ceremony but I will give you support.” He then said, “You people of the gender ministry, you must come for my wedding” and we had made that promise. Unfortunately, we shall be going to send him off. The wedding has not come to be. I even asked him what type of good soldier this is with one woman because we know soldiers – with due respect to the ones in the House - are usually – (Laughter) - this man was a Christian, Madam Speaker. The late Hon. Engola liked jokes and whenever we were at the ministry, he would tell me, “You ‘ Muteso’ look at the way you are moving.” I would then respond, “You Langi man, look at the way you are looking at me” before we would start a meeting, and you would find us laughing. Before he went for Labour Day, the Office of the Government Chief Whip called me and said that they were looking for somebody to present the statement. I called him - he said he was supposed to go to Moroto. I think he had another assignment from His Excellency. He told me he was at the Uganda Media Centre and I told him to finish with the media centre and rush to Parliament. That day, we had an issue here and he was not able to come and present this statement. However, he came here and said, “My sister, I have to leave for Moroto.” I said, “No, go to the House and then travel to Moroto. After all, you have your ‘wiwi’,” and we laughed. He then told me that from Moroto, he was going to attend prayers in Ntungamo. From Ntungamo on a Sunday, he was going to Namutumba. This was a very hardworking man. Madam Speaker, whenever we used to have a caucus meeting in Entebbe, he would call me and tell me to take advantage of his lead car and we used to move together. This was a friend. We have missed a great man; a man who loved this country, his family and his constituency. Every time he was free, he was in Oyam. I remember when he was an LC V Chairman, one of our councillors was given the position of secretary for finance - Hon. Odongo Ali. This man loved everybody despite their status. May God rest your soul in peace until we meet, my brother. Thank you. THE MINISTER OF STATE, OFFICE OF

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Aaouat lUCtr o22 Ml,lrtstrv of Iourum. wddMe and Antrourtres 24L162.425 tt2 Etlrca and Intcgnt! 7.200.ooo ll4 USanda Canccr Instrtutc ?8,r 800.000 I ls USanda Hcart lnstltutc 253.200.000 120 Natronal CluzcnsluD and ldruEAuon Crarol[Nclcl r{ 400.000 r22 Ka.mpala Cap(al Clty Authonty t? .6?? .o4 t.?64 t2? Upanda Vmrs Rcs..rch laqtrtutc luvRn 137.400.{lOO t32 Educatron Scrvrcc Cofi nlaslon 7.200.ooo 133 Dr.ctorate of ArbLc Prosecuhona 1?.400.000 134 Hcdth S.rucc Commlssmn r4.400.000 r3s Drcctoiatc of Oovcmmcot A,lalvucal Laboratorv {DOALI 194.600.o00 t42 Natotril Agncultural R.s.arch Orgaruzahon (NARO) l_ooo.ooo.ooo t44 Uginda PoLcc Forc. 7.0?8.800.000 145 Ugaada Pnsoa3 2.O29.800.000 146 Arblrc S.ruc. CotrrJrlsslon 7 200.000 148 JudrcEI &rvrc. Com-tl1ls8mn 7 200.000 l5l Uganda Blood T.ansfuson Scrvrcc (lJBfSl 495.OOO.OOO 156 Uaanda land Conmrs8bn r?.,+oo.ooo r58 lntcmal Sccunty Orgaflratroo (lSOl 500.o00.000 159 D(te.tral S.cunty OrAanr.zahon (ESO) s00.o00.000 401 Mulago Hosprta.l Codplcr( 4.359.OOO.OOO 402 Butabrka Hosprt l 512.400.OOO 40i Arua Rcfcrral Hosprtal 627.OOO.OOO 4M Fon Ponal Rcfcrral Hosprtal a2s.ooo.ooo 405 Gulu Rcfcrlil Hosprtal 825.600.000 406 Homa Rclcrral Ho3pltal 890.400.000 40? Jlqa Rcfcrral Hosprtal s82.600.000 404 (abe-tc Rcfcrrra-t Ho3plta-t s6s.400.ooo 409 Mas.ka RefcrrJ Ho6pxr.l 6?5.600.000 410 Mbat Rcfcrral Hosprtal 954.600.000 411 Sorotr Rclcrral Holprtal 63?.200.000 4t2 lrr'a Rcfcaral Hoaprtal 415.400.ooo 413 Mbarara Rcfcrral Hospltal 5?? 200 000 414 Mubcndc Rcfcrra-t Hosprta-t 505.800.o00 41S Moroto Rafcrra.l Hospltal s02 800.000 416 Neguru Hosprta-t 634.200.OOO 41? loruddu Rcfcrra-t Hdprtal 915.000.000 418 (ewcmpc Rcfcrral Hosprtal 1.237.320.000 419 Entcbbr Rcfcrral Hosprrrl ,106.200.ooo 420 Mulago SpccElrred Womcn a.nd Nconat l Hosp(al 1 .,[46 000.ooo 601 3.130.961.O25 602 Fort-Pona.l clB 2. r53.656.406 601 2.O99.60a.100 I I I I t t I I t I t I I I t I t I I I (/ +r so

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Aaaunt ltrGll 935 Zoabo DBtnct r.635.420.3r2 oRrltD totrl 102.&.*.21 AfIilO( S AOOmO.{A| WAGE S(ORIFAiI.S - Abov. tta t sal (SClCt{tlS?Sl ) ts rh+ -lY- ) Votc Vot l(rac LEauit IUO:I o06 Ml'lEtr] of Forcrgn Afarrs 327.,+SA.2SA oro Mmr8tn of A8nculturc, AnlmEI, Indultry & Frlhcnc8 r.284.917.335 ot2 Mmrstr] of La.nd!, Houllng & Urbr-n Dcvciopmcnt 2.216 .962.s42 o16 M[u8try of Work8 and Traas@rt s92.4?4.78 ola Mmtrr. of Ccnd€r- t bou. ,nd Soctrl Ddr.l6omant a71.378.5q I o19 M|I|atrl. 61 q;t.,.. ,o, "nvEonmcnt 493.852.506 o22 Muustrv of Touns6. Wrldllc and Antroutrca 1.1,t +.6s7.484 rc? Uqenda tu& Cotud.rsllon IUACI r2 r.843.603 l14 Uganda Cenccr la3dtutc 1323.431.204 tt? Ur.nda ?oudsm Borrd {UTBI 10.oo0.000 120 Netrona-t Crt cnsfuD and ltDhrEatron ControllNclcl 224.39?.O20 l2l Darrv DcvcloDmcat Authoaltv IDDAI 426.OOO.316 124 Eoua.l OaDortubrt a Corlabralron r.7q4.330.600 135 Drcctoratc of Oovcmmcnt Aaalytrcd [aboratory IDOALI 828.8,+4.852 145 Ugr.ada PrGoag 3.930.346.4qr r46 Pubhc Scwrcc Coarmls8ron I 52.1O9.O84 rs2 Natron l Acncultural Advllor9 Scruccs {NAADSI 85?.9r0.000 r58 l,rt rnEl S.cunqv Ora6n zatron (lSOl 1.32S.4?3.200 r65 Uce,tda Busm.r! arld Tcchnrcd E rmrmtron B6erd r.23s.000.ooo 303 Mskcrcrc Umvcrclty Bu3rdcar Schoal 7 .695.Ot2.797 306 Muor UruvcBrtv 625.?4232r 308 r.646.60? .44 309 Oulu Umvcrcr0 431.875.752 3lo Lra Umvc.srty 3.793 2S7.856 3t2 Uaanda Manaoaacnt la3trtutc 1.330.79S.483 403 Aiua Rcfcrral Hosptal 237.145,300 ,r{)5 Culu Rcfcrral Ho3pr(al 40?.216.422 406 Holma Rcfcfial HGpltel 172.643.239 408 (abslc Refcftal Hosprtrl 94.244.912 412 lrra Rcfcrrrl Hosprtel 272.1t9.?3? 415 Moroto Rcfcftel Hdprtal 392.621.320 418 l(awcmp. R€fcrr"al Hospltal 3.S00 so1.230 420 MulaSo SpccElEcd Woaca rnd Ncoaata-t Ho3prte.l 3.546.OS3.292 42t Ka$rnEa Rcfcrral Ho3t)rtll 500.ooo ooo 505 Uaanda Hrdr OOaftlssroa ln KcN{ Nallobr 3r0.o00.ooo 507 lJanda Hr&onjl(lssLoa rn NrE6ra. Abura 47? 949.420 /_

An6mt tuoxl Vota l{eac 5r2 uean& Eaballv ln Othroola. Add6 Ababa 550.000.000 sl4 Utan& Embasav ln SMtzcrlrnd. Cleneva 324.459 _O?? sra Urandi Embe3sv In B.l'lum. Brusa.la 300.ooo_ooo s2r 200 000 00() ura'l& Embasse ln Sudrn. klertouh s23 Ucanda Embas8tl rn Gcfi[aav. Aarln 3l1.666,000 528 Uqanda Embass! m UDrtcd Arab EDratca. Abudhatn 333.20r.800 60r 4.26L.6?2.447 602 aar 654.147 603 Oulu crtv ,+.965.393.170 604 Holma crtv 578.31r,23S 605 ,+.791.3?5.rS8 606 3.?Sr.23g-rA8 2.4SO.374 qql 60? 608 Mbalc crtg 2.199.01s.629 609 Mbar&a crtr 5.01S.645.747 6ro 2.A65.O52.4,t6 ?02 Buon Munlcloel C6unc 356.54r.462 s2.210.4r7 703 Bu3hcnlr- IBhaka MuorcrP3.l Councrl ?04 Bu3rA Munrclpal Counc 165.018.98? 70s Entcbb. Mudcrpel Counc 89S.682.662 ?06 lballdr Munrcrpal Couac l-636. r90.433 3?2-At4-112 ?o? lgrnga Mumcrpr-t Counc 704 liabaL Munlctpal Councd 2.2r3.459.ee5 s2a.60s.4so ?09 Ka.@uh Munrcpa.l Counc ?to l(apchor$a Mumcpg.l Counc 5r9.434.585 7tl li^,!.rc Mumctpal Counc tt .464. .?? 5.546 712 (rra MunrcFal Counc 1.O59.293.939 ?T3 2.q63 l lo.55s KBoro MuDlcrpg.l Couacll 7t4 Krtgu6 Munhpal Counc[ 699.?49.693 ?ts l(oboko Mumclpa-t Couac s6,763.594 7t6 Kotrdo Muorcrpe-t Counc r20.s9a.?24 ?t? t(urnr Munrdr)rt C6un.'l 146_?SO.306 ?ta Luaazr MunrcrDal Councd 8.2,r,+.828 ?t9 Malondvc-Ssabacabo Muturos.l Couac 340.36S,025 ?20 Malmdr MunrcrDal Counc 30r.388.990 s62.ras g5a ?21 MrtvarE MutucDaI Councd ?22 Moroto MunlcrDa-t Councd 622.853.0?3 ?23 Mubendc MumcrDat Councd 263.t62.? 16 ?25 Nansrn, Munrcrr,rl C6u.ctl | _279.654.194 5 00() 000 ?26 Ncbbr MunrclDal Counc ?2? Nrcru Mumclod Counc 446,602.736 ?28 NtunEE ra Mullcroa-t Coutrcd 352.922.629 t.o2t .63? _?47 ?25 RukunE \ltauaroel Counc[ { A s6 s

Votc lfrDc A.aount IUOXI 89r Mbalc DBtnct 4.66? _957.305 492 Mba.rara DEtrrct | .o9? .456 .2?? a9,t r.65r,327,975 aq5 Moroto Drstnct 42.|9O.926 896 Movo Dratrat 1.96S.213.745 a9? Mora Oratrrct l-sa3.so7.4s5 a98 Mub.nd€ DBtnct r.537.263.950 aqq Mukono Dl3tnct t.212.?64.506 900 Nab atuk DBtnct sa? .429.272 901 NakaDhDult OBtnct 604.444.943 902 NaLa3ckc Dtstnct 3 433.222.584 903 Nakaionrola DEtnct ?34.423.552 qo4 Ne.aavrnco DBtrrct t .926.925.?O4 qos Na.uuarndc/a DBtnct 2.220 .t?9 A4A 906 Nr-mutuaba Orstnct 1.903.026.509 90? MaDak Dlltrrct 2t .404 .634 .t?2 904 l{cbb1 Dl.tact 954.? 10.206 gog Nqora Drltnct 12.534.6r3.r9r qto Ntoroko Orltnct 1.367.952.529 9tt Ntuncr.ao Drltrrct 2.30q.697.64S 9t2 Nwova Dlltnct r.75?.ttt.272 gl3 Oboa6 Dlitnct 299-4O2.O93 9rs Otukc Otltnct 1.o33.73A.332 916 O('arn Drstrrct 1.S,l4.33X.SSS 9t? 3.84r.r08.038 918 P.kwach DBtrrct 9.t8?.O2A.S?A 919 Pall$a Otstnct L?A? .e7 | .176 920 Rakfl Drtrct 3.328.O36.325 92t Rubandr Dl3tnct 698,068.342 9r, Rubmz D[tnct 4.?t t.g 12.333 923 Rulola Dr.trrct 9r3.so2.544 924 Rukung.n Olstnct 2.265.981.405 qzs Rq?.dpera Drltnct r?6.t69.?47 926 Scmbabulc D6tnct 14S.947.S16 92? Scrcrc Dtltnct 2.293.5,+5.6r9 924 8.540.176.r r I 929 Sronko Dtsmct 2.O42 .22A.645 930 Sorotr Or3trrcl s.og?.600- 166 93r Tcrcco Drstnct 30r.68S.984 932 t.5?2.60?.?AA 933 Waloso D8tnct ? 94a.254.?9? 934 Yumba Drstnct s1q.g30_sro 935 Zombo Dlltrlct 893,695,148 r A & .(

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Highly noted, Mr Speaker. The findings: The Status of DGAL Forensic Laboratories DGAL has acquired the land title for the headquarters at Wandegeya and the designs for the DNA data bank infrastructure building have been approved by KCCA. However, there were no releases on the development budget for quarter one of the Financial Year 2022/2023. This has greatly affected the commencement of works on the building. DGAL has four regional forensic laboratories situated in Mbale for the Elgon and the entire eastern region, Mbarara for Western Region, Gulu for the northern region and Moroto for the North Eastern and Karamoja sub regions. All these have their land titles, except Mbarara where efforts to get the land title is underway. The DGAL developed an organisation plan for regional forensic laboratories as a systematic guide to operationalise the laboratories and offer more accessible forensic, analytical and advisory services to stakeholders at regional level. Recruitment of forensic scientists to staff the regional forensic laboratory has been embarked on with the 10 Government analysts recruited at the end of the financial year. Clearance for recruitment for the Financial Year 2022/2023 has been sought from the Ministry of Public Service through the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, it should be noted that DGAL approved staff structures are 124 positions. As of July 2022, only 65 positions are filled, putting it at 52.4 per cent leaving 59 positions vacant. Day care facilities have been set up in Mbale Regional Laboratory to cater for breastfeeding and expectant mothers who are part of the staff and clientele. The renovations and furnishing of basic scientific equipment have been provided for the regional forensic laboratory. Parliament appropriated an additional Shs 8 billion to DGAL for the Financial Year 2022/2023 for the regional forensic laboratories to acquire modern scientific equipment to add forensic analysis in the regions. An additional Shs 6.4 billion is needed to fully equip and operationalise all the regional laboratories. [Mr Muwuma] SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT

8239 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 20 APRIL 2023 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. reinstates the universities development budget of Shs 11 billion to take care of inadequate funding for other key development projects, and provide Shs 13.455 billion to help the university undertake the construction of a multipurpose building at the college in Moroto and the teaching hospital. Muni University The committee recommends that the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development allocates the university Shs 12.6 billion to complete the main administration block and procure the necessary medical equipment for the teaching hospital. Uganda Management Institute On this, we recommend that the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development avails UMI an additional Shs 1.5 billion for the construction of a new classroom block at Mbale and Mbarara study centres, and Shs 10 billion to kick-start the construction of a multi-purpose building block at the Kampala Campus. Mountains of the Moon University This is a new university that came on board at the beginning of last financial year. The committee recommends that the Ministry of Finance –

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Allow me to thank the chairperson of the committee for the report. On 6 April 2023, the Prime Minister made the following statement; “The Gulu– Opit–Rackoko–Patongo–Abim-Moroto Road is a national road under the responsibility of UNRA and it is currently under maintenance.” Although the road was not listed under NDP III, it is a priority road, as stated by H.E. the President, in his pledges. As such, the road has been identified for development. Design for upgrading of this road is scheduled to commence in the next financial year. This Moroto Road has been talked about for so long and it connects over 60 per cent of Northern Uganda. Allow me to request that this is considered, as mentioned by the Prime Minister because it was not mentioned in the committee’s report. Thank you.

The Committee was rnformed by the Universtty that, UBhr 6.455b4 ts needed for the multipurposc building constructron at Culu Unrversrgr Constituent College, Moroto and UShr 7bn for Construction of the teaching hosprtal. Rccomnendatlon ?rE Co,,nmlttcc sccomna nds th,,t TDPED alloca:ccr @rtlu Uah/r,rsltg aa addltTonal USh^E I3.455Da ln otdcr to ulndctaakc thc co st ltctio of murti- pttrposc buiElng at thc Coastltueat College 7n Mototo annd. frachlrllg Hosplta,l- Votc 31O Lln Unlverelty Inrdcquete dcvclopmcat fund for Lln Univcnity Thc Commitlee obscrves that the Unrversrty has a number of ongoing capital developments and rcquircs an additional USh. 9bn for completion of the Marn Administration block for all-inclusive office space, central lecture & conferencc facilities and Uehe 3.6bn for cquipping thc tcaching hospital and facultrcs of Education and Mcdicrne with essentral equipment & supplies for effective t raining and efficrent functioning. Rccotnmeadatloa Tlra commtt:tce rccommends th4;t IFPDD allocatcs ttla Unhtctsltg aa crt.ra UShs 72.6b^ Jor thc complctloa of tho matn adnlaistratlon blork and procanattunt of thc nacccary mcdlcal qulpmcat tot thc teachlag hospltal a rd. Jocultles. VotG 312 Ugende Manegcmcat Inltitutc-lrul Inedcqurtc Cepltd l)cvclopmcnt fuldr for lltll The Committee observes that UMI rcquircs an additional UShe 1.5bn for construction of a new classroom block at rts campuses of Mbale and Mbarara The Institute also needs UShr loba for construction of Multipurpose buildrng rn '. thc medium term. n lg tIZIl N 64

Multipurposc burlding constructron at Gulu Univcrsity Conrhtucnt 13.455 Tot Collcse and 'ttach inE Hospltal 31.?1 126 Bilt w lnadc uatc rnfraatructurc facrhtrcs Shortfalls rn allowancca totd o.576 l9.lt Dcvclo bu t.3 t.2 Construcl,ion of a new cl,assroom/office block at Mbale Branch Constructron of a ncw clalsroom/officc block at Mbarara Branch t0 Constructron of the ncw multlpurposc burldi at Kam la Branch Dcvclo t Dcvelo totd 12.5 Tte Committcc rccommcnda that MFPED re-mrtate3 Mts of the Moon lJnivcr$ty development budSet of UShs 5.41bn, addrtronal UShs 5.4bn as rctoolin bu and thc PrcaidcntEl plcdge for the construction of the faculty of health ecicnccs, rnnovatron and tcch 5.4 20 Ra-rn statc dcvclo ment bu Prcsidcntial Totd 26.+ trl;"dibt l-, --ll::?tri l eto,L 6.008 Thc Commlttcc recommcnds thar MFPED allocatca Gulu Unrve rsrty an addrtronal UShs 13.455bn rn ordcr to undertaka thc conatructron of multl- purposc burldrng at the Constituent C,ol rn Moroto and tcagb{rE!{qrprtal lrq, lanel oI 2'ln/o I'hc Commrttcc rccomDcnds thst MFPED sllo(atcs thc Unlvcrsrty an crt a UShs l2.6bn for thc codrptcLpn of thc marn admurrltmtton block and paocuremc.rt of ttre ncccarao, mcdrcal cqurpmcnt for thc tcachrnS hosprtal and facultlca. l,ivin8 Out Allowanccs for Govcrnmcnt studcnts

Multlpurpos€ bulldlng construction at Gulu Universlty Constituent Ho tal and Teac 13.455 Thc Commrttee recommends that MFPED allocates Gulu University an addrtronal UShs 13.455bn ln order to undertake the constructlon of multr- purpose burldmg at the Constltuent Col tal in Moroto and teachi Hos Totd 31.? 1 BiI w 6.008 uate infrastructure facrlitres 126 l,ow stalfinq level of 27o/a The Commrttee rccommends that MFpED allocates the Unlvcrslty an extra UShs l2.6bn for the completron of the mam admmrsratron block and procurement of the ncccssary mcdrcal cqurpmcnt for the teachrng hosprtal and facultres. Shortfalls in allowances o_576 Lrving Out Allowances for Government Students Totd 19.18 Develo ent bu t 13 Conatructron of a new cLassroom/office block at Mbale Branch Develo ent t 1.2 Construction of a new classroom/office block at Mbarara Branch Develo ent t 10 Constructlon of the new multipurpose bu Branch at t(am Totd 12.S Re-rn state tbu t 5.4 The Committee recommends that MFPED re-instates Mts of the Moon Unrverslty development budget of UShs 5.4lbn, addrtronal UShs 5 4bn as retoo bu and the Presrdentral 20 Presldenthl pledge for the construction of the faculty of health scrences, lnnovatlon and technolo Totel 26.4

8222 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 Vote 103: Inspectorate of Government Vote 119: Uganda Registration Services Bureau Judiciary Low disposal rate of cases at Supreme Court On the low disposal rate of cases at the Supreme Court, the committee recommends that the Judiciary develops strategies to improve the performance in the Supreme Court in order to stem accumulation of backlog. Construction of court buildings The committee recommends that the Judiciary be provided an additional Shs 19.96 billion to undertake the construction of court buildings in the above-mentioned areas – Court of Appeal buildings in Mbarara and Gulu as well as High Court premises in Moroto, Mpigi, Iganga, Mubende, Luwero and Kitgum. Transport equipment The committee recommends that the development budget of the Judiciary for Financial Year 2023/2024 be enhanced by Shs 8.19 billion to procure transport equipment to improve access to justice. Court sessions The committee recommends that the Judiciary be provided Shs 35 billion, during the Financial Year 2023/2024 and the next Financial Year 2024/2025 to enable it organise more court sessions. Gender compliance The Judiciary should priorities gender mainstreaming and its activities, and make provision for breastfeeding/children rooms in all premises. Law Development Centre (LDC) On allowances for part-time lectures, the committee recommends that the allowance of part-time staff be declassified in the charter of accounts as wages to protect it from possible future budget cuts. Secondly, the LDC be provided with an additional Shs 3.5 billion on its nonwage recurrent budget to cater for allowances of part-time staff. Completion of the construction of the LDC multi-storied building - Shs 77 billion The committee recommends that the Development Committee of the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development finalises the approval of this project as it has the potential of generating income once completed. Two, Government provides Shs 77 billion to the LDC development budget for the completion of the multi-storied building, across the medium term, starting with the Financial Year 2023/2024. Legal aid services The committee recommends an additional Shs 1.5 billion to LDC to facilitate legal aid services. On Mbale Regional Campus, the committee recommends that Shs 6.7 billion be provided to LDC to set up a regional campus in Mbale in the Financial Year 2023/2024. Gender compliance The committee recommends that the LDC expedites the implementation of the gender policy at the workplace and also set up sign language services, and visual impairment aids for persons with disabilities Uganda Law Reform Commission On low budget absorption, the committee recommends that the commission should ensure that procurement modalities are completed so as to immediately commence printing as soon as the President ascents to the revised principle law. The commission should exploit recruitment on contract terms as they wait for rationalisation of agencies so as to fill the available human resource gap.

8036 MINISTERIAL STATEMENT SECTORAL COMMITTEE REPORT 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. financial year. Funds for recruitment amounting to Shs 2.6 billion have been included in this financial year’s budget. I request you, honourable members, to support this budget. Hon. Nakut Faith from Napak says that she raises a matter concerning the lack of resources by the Ministry of Water and Environment to resolve issues of silted valley dams in the Karamoja area. Her prayer is, can Government update the House on the issue of silted valley dams? Mr Speaker, on 16 March 2023, a technical team from the Ministry of Water and Environment, after our meeting with the Karamoja subregion Members of Parliament in Moroto and in my office, visited the region and launched an exercise to conduct an assessment of the cost implication of the desilting and rehabilitation of the priority dams selected by those leaders in our meeting. The technical team, together with the regional unit from the ministry, are currently conducting this exercise and the report will be presented to this House when this study is completed. Mr Speaker, I beg to submit.

Mr Speaker, I am about to conclude. As the country grapples with the impact of climate change, continuous afforestation programmes and smart agriculture practices are the preferred options to mitigate these impacts. I, therefore, call upon honourable colleagues to support the Ministry of Water and Environment and the National Forestry Authority’s efforts to restore these forests. Hon. Andrew Ojok Oulanyah, Member of Parliament for Omoro, raised a concern that Moroto Road (Gulu-Opit-Rackoko-Patongo- Abim-Moroto), which is the backbone of Omoro District and many other districts in Acholi, Lango and Karamoja sub-regions is currently non-motorable. His prayer was: what are the Government’s plan to; (i) Maintain Moroto Road? (ii) Upgrade Moroto Road to acceptable standards as envisaged in the NRM Manifesto? My response is that the Gulu-Opit-Rackoko- Patongo-Abim-Moroto Road is a national road, under the management of the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA), and the road is currently under maintenance. Although the road was not listed in National Development Plan III, it is a priority road as stated by His Excellency the President in his pledges. As such, the road has been identified for development. Design for the upgrading of this road is scheduled to commence in Financial Year 2023/2024. I wish to inform the honourable members that the Gulu-Opit-Rackoko- Patongo-Abim-Moroto Road is a priority road and it is the plan of the Government to upgrade it to acceptable standards. Hon. Geoffrey Macho, MP Busia Municipality, was concerned about regular load shedding, which had adversely affected service delivery in Busia Municipality. [Ms Nabbanja] PRIME MINISTER’S TIME

7880 MINISTERIAL STATEMENT SUPPLEMENTARY SCHEDULE NO. 1 FOR FY 2022/2023 Shs 6 billion is required for maintenance of oxygen plants. Shs 2.7 billion is requested for supervision of the International Specialised Hospital at Lubowa. Shs 3.6 billion is required as counterpart funding for Busolwe General Hospital Project. Members can read the details. We recommend as follows: A total of Shs 5.9 billion, instead of the requested Shs 6 billion, be provided as follows: a) Shs 4 billion be availed to procure eight transformers and accessories for eight regional referral hospitals namely: Masaka, Jinja, Soroti, Gulu, Arua, Hoima, Kabale and Moroto. b) Shs 1.5 billion be availed for repair of oxygen plants in the regional referral hospitals. c) Shs 400 million be availed for van maintenance – for the workshop. The committee further recommends that recurrent expenditure should be incorporated in the subsequent budgets. In addition, we recommend that upon installation of the new oxygen plants, the current stock of oxygen plants should be evaluated and decommissioned since they have become more expensive to maintain. For the issue of Lubowa, the committee recommends that Shs 2.7 billion for supervision of the International Specialised Hospital at Lubowa –(Interjections)- Members, listen. We decline the approval –(Applause)– because up to now, the Ministry of Health has not given accountability for what has been given so far. For the Shs 3.6 billion counterpart funding for Busolwe General Hospital - this is a grant from the Spanish Government – we recommend the approval of Shs 3.6 billion. Vote 018: Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development requested for Shs 21.6 billion for Generating Growth Opportunities and Productivity for Women (GROW) project. This project is funded by the World Bank. We recommend the approval of Shs 21.6 billion to Vote 018 for the GROW project. Vote 022: Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities made a request of Shs 1.359 billion as unspent NTR for Financial Year 2021/2022 for UWEC. We recommend the approval of Shs 1.359 billion. The same ministry is requesting for Shs 3.8 billion as non-tax revenue for emergency relocation of Uganda Hotel and Tourism Institute to rented premises and establishment of students’ accommodation facilities in Jinja to pave way for smooth construction. We recommend that Shs 3.8 billion be availed to the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities. Vote 120: National Citizenship and Immigration Control requested for Shs 46.784 billion for the directorate to procure more passport booklets. We observed that the demand for the booklets has increased and there is a shortage of 288,000 booklets. Once the money is given, the directorate will generate an additional Shs 65 billion in non-tax revenue. We recommend the approval of Shs 46.784 billion to Vote 120. Vote 122: Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) requested for Shs 34.446 billion as unspent balances for Financial Year 2021/2022 for the Second Kampala Integrated Infrastructure Development Project (KIIDP II) from the World Bank. We recommend that the Shs 34.446 billion be availed to KCCA.

I told you they are not thieves. (Laughter) Yes, Member for Moroto. (Laughter) Okay, let us have both of you, but starting with the lady.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I would like to lay on the Table the policy statement for the health sub-programme for Financial Year 2023/2024: Vote 014 – Ministry of Health Vote 114 - Uganda Cancer Institute Vote 115 – Uganda Heart Institute Vote 116 - National Medical Stores Vote 127 - Uganda Virus Research Institute Vote 134 - Health Service Commission Vote 151 - Uganda Blood Transfusion Service Vote 401 - Mulago National Referral Hospital Vote 402 - Butabika Hospital Vote 403 - Arua Regional Referral Hospital Vote 404 - Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital Vote 405 - Gulu Regional Referral Hospital Vote 406 - Hoima Regional Referral Hospital Vote 407 - Jinja Regional Referral Hospital Vote 408 - Kabale Regional Referral Hospital Vote 409 - Masaka Regional Referral Hospital Vote 410 - Mbale Regional Referral Hospital Vote 411 - Soroti Regional Referral Hospital Vote 412 - Lira Regional Referral Hospital Vote 413 - Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital Vote 414 - Mubende Regional Referral Hospital Vote 415 - Moroto Regional Referral Hospital Vote 416 - Naguru National Referral Hospital Vote 417 - Kiruddu Regional Referral Hospital Vote 418 - Kawempe Regional Referral Hospital Vote 419 - Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital Vote420 - Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital Vote 421 - Kayunga Referral Hospital Vote 422 - Yumbe Referral Hospital Vote 612 - Local Governments and the other annex attached. Madam Speaker, I beg to lay.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I have about three issues. One is the politics inside the civil service right now, especially in the local government. We have scenarios in my own district whereby if there is a referral case maybe to Moroto Referral Hospital, a patient is charged Shs 200,000 for fuelling the hospital ambulance and the next patient maybe Shs 400,000. It is the same distance, but you find that it is because of the politics ine the civil service. The other issue is about the civil servants who have passed on. For instance, when two teachers die, one continues receiving salary and the other’s salary is stopped exactly the same month the person passes on. My prayer is to the ministry is that much as we also have meetings with these civil servants, when you go there as a ministry, try to enlighten them on the dangers of mixing politics into service delivery to Ugandans. Thank you.

6631 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER 2022 of Public Service has streamlined the grading of nurses and midwives as per Standing Order Instruction No.14 of 2017. Prayer five: the Government, through the Uganda Health Service Commission, desists from advertising jobs that consider a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing as an added advantage than a requirement. Committee observations The committee observed that the Minister of Public Service issued a Standing Order Instruction dated 27 December 2017 on the scheme of service for nursing and midwives cadre in the Uganda Public Service (Annex three). The grading of qualifications, career progression, and recruitment is provided for in the scheme. The table below represents the existing grading of nursing and midwifery cadres. One, there is a Commissioner Nursing. Here, the education requirement is a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Masters in Nursing or Midwifery, or Public Health or Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration. The level of deployment for these is at the Ministry of Health. Two, for Assistant Commissioner Nursing, that is U1E, the education requirement is a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Masters in Nursing or Midwifery or Public Health or Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration. These are also deployed at the Ministry of Health. The Assistant District Health Officer, that is U2SE, the education requirement is a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing or Midwifery, or Public Health or Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration. These are deployed at district health office. For Senior Principal Nursing Officer, that is U2SE, the required education is a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, a Master in Nursing or Midwifery or Public Health or a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration. These are deployed at the Ministry of Health or national referral hospitals or regional referral hospitals. The list is very long. Honourable members, I request that you read because there are up to 17 categories. The committee further reviewed Health Service Commission’s advert No.2 of March 2022, which is marked annex four, for the positions of senior principal nursing officer and senior assistant nursing officer for Naguru Hospital and Moroto Regional Referral Hospital respectively. The committee noted that the adverts did not indicate a degree as an added advantage for job requirement, as alleged in the petition, neither did the petitioners prove to the committee the allegations. Appearing before the committee, the Chairperson of the Health Service Commission informed the committee that the commission advertises vacancies based on the approved scheme of service for nursing and midwifery by the Ministry of Public Service. The committee noted that prayer No.5 of the petition was not based on the facts on the ground and the scheme of service issued by the Ministry of Public Service has streamlined the grading of nurses and midwives. Conclusion The committee noted that all prayers of the petitioners have been adequately addressed by the Government and, therefore, the committee did not see any tangible justification to uphold the prayers. Whereas, the Government has enhanced the salaries of medical workers regardless of their deployment for the Financial Year 2022/2023, the reality on the ground is different since the wage bill does not match the releases. The funds being disbursed are based on the previous wage bill before the salaries were enhanced, leading to wage shortfalls in many local governments. Mr Speaker, I beg to move. (Applause)

6633 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER 2022 Officer and Senior Assistant Nursing Officer for Naguru and Moroto, it was not indicated that a degree was an added advantage. Still, the committee went further by indicating that for you to become a Senior Principal Nursing Officer or Assistant Nursing Officer, you are supposed to have a bachelor’s degree. Again, in their recommendations, they said they were not satisfied with the presentations that came from the petitioners. Therefore, they found it right not to continue. Mr Speaker, there is a practice that always happens in very many Government institutions. You find somebody working, with a low level of qualification, but they are protected. When they bring out adverts, they do not indicate the right qualification so that the person who has a lower qualification can benefit. When people who are near note this, they cry out. So, I think the committee should not have dropped this because this was a cry. People cried that for you to become a Senior Principal Nursing Officer, you are supposed to have a degree as a minimum qualification. You then say: “In our adverts, we did not indicate that you should have it. Therefore, even though you have a diploma, you can go for it.” I do not agree with the committee on this point.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I raised an issue here a while ago regarding the poor state of the Government- aided schools in Karamoja region. I want to ask the Prime Minister whether the Government has plans of rehabilitating some of these schools because we have had a very big challenge, especially with insecurity. As leaders of Karamoja, we agreed, through the regional council, that one of the ways we can combat these problems is by keeping students in schools. We have a few schools in Karamoja; I especially want to talk about Moroto High school that was built in 1965. To date, they are still operating on the same facilities. I want to call upon the Government to see how they can address this issue. I want to hear from the Prime Minister whether they have any plans to do with the same issue. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. First of all, I would like to thank my colleague for raising that matter. I want to pledge that I will be able to bring a statement in line with the question, which the honourable member has raised, not only for Moroto High School; there is also Kitobere - those great schools. The ministry has a plan. Allow me to bring a statement here formally to update the country on what plans we have.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I raise a matter of national importance on the phasing out of Kotido Primary Teachers’ College. Following the on-going restructuring of teacher training institutions across the country by the Ministry of Education and Sports, Kotido Primary Teachers’ College in Karamoja Subregion has been phased out. This college was opened in 1985 as a Grade III Teacher Training College on serious demand of north Karamoja after realising that Moroto Core PTC could not meet the high training needs of teachers in Karamoja subregion. It is unfortunate that even with the long struggle to attain this college, its noticeable benefits and development to the community, it has been phased out. The phasing out of this college has left the community that gave its land pondering whether to take it back because they had offered it for education of their children to be teachers. A number of stakeholders’ consultative meetings have been held in the district with the Ministry of Education and all have resolved that Kotido PTC be retained and be upgraded to a core PTC, on grounds that it has a larger catchment area coupled with long distances, which cover districts of north Karamoja, Kitgum, Agago, Pader, Otuke, Amuria, Soroti and Kapelebyong. Kotido PTC is the nearest PTC for access of students from the above catchment areas. For instance, the distance from Karenga to Moroto Core PTC, the only college in Karamoja, is 280 kilometres. One can be able to see that the available institution that trains teachers is far apart and connecting them is very difficult, coupled with insecurity. Kotido PTC has a land area of 48 acres with many structures and facilities to support teaching and learning, hence it has room for expansion. There is evidence that there is increased access, retention and completion rates of learners from primary one to -

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I just want to add to what the honourable member has just said; that the same issue happened in Sebei region. We heard in the news last year around October, that Government had come up with a policy to phase out PTCs. Sebei had only one PTC and that is Kapchorwa Primary Teachers College. It is a shock to the entire region that even after phasing out, the five core PTCs, which remain in the eastern region include one in Mbale, Tororo, Bukedi Subregion and two in Teso; there is only one in Moroto. From Kapchorwa, Kween, Bukwo to reach a nearest core PTC is about 250 kilometres. Mr Speaker, my prayers are that Government upgrades Kapchorwa PTC into a core PTC. Thank you.

6430 TRIBUTE TO THE LATE DR PAUL KAWANGA SSEMWOGERERE Action taken With regard to the reinstatement of local defence forces between April and June 2022, the UPDF deliberately trained and passed out 14,440 local defence forces that are deployed in Karamoja and the neighbouring affected districts. Resolution No.3 That Government takes steps to immediately remove all armed herdsmen moving within the sub regions of Teso, Lango Acholi, Bugisu and Sebei and Karamoja including the armed Turkana, Tuposa and the Pokot. Action taken With the re-launch of the Usalama kwa wote Operations in July 2021, 631 guns were covered by May 2022, within the reporting period. Resolution No. 4 Government, with immediate effect and in accordance with Article 22 of the Constitution, re-launches and accelerates a comprehensive and sustained disarmament process in the Karamoja subregion to remove all illegal guns from civilians and raiders. Action taken Usalama kwa wote Operations were re- launched in July 2021 and is still ongoing to date. Resolution No.5 Government, within six months from the date of this resolution and in accordance with Article 22 of the Constitution, implements a mechanism to prevent the re-acquisition and proliferation of illegal guns within Karamoja subregion and from the neighbouring countries. Action taken Mr Speaker, on 6 April 2022, the Governments of Uganda and Kenya signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Defence and Security, particularly on combating cross- border animal rustling, small arms proliferation, as well as other transnational crimes. The UPDF, in collaboration with the local leadership, and their counterparts, especially across in Kenya, established a joint mechanism for prevention and curtailing arms proliferation and these include the formation of joint peace committees to provide a warning and resolve any emerging and existential cross-border security issues. In addition, the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) maintain liaison officers on both sides of the border. The UPDF has deployed three officers in the Loki Chogiyo in Turkana County, Kachelipa in West Pokot County, and the Kapsokwan in Bungoma County in Kenya, while Kenya Defense Forces officers are in Moroto, Amudat and Tororo respectively. Similar initiatives are in the offing with the Government of South Sudan. Related to this, the reporting on the security and cattle rustling, I would like, with your permission, to invite the Minister for Agriculture, because he has an item on the same. I beg to report.

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.

6298 THE NATIONAL LEGAL AID BILL, 2022 us take that message seriously. If it is alcohol destroying our people, let us speak up. Let us not shy away from talking about it. Lastly, Madam Speaker, you asked me to give an update. I am aware that the Ministry of Health, working with partners, the Netherlands Government, is planning to equip all regional referral hospitals with all the necessary equipment. The process has started. Moroto has received and other regional referral hospitals will also get. Not every hospital can have a CT scan because you will lack the personnel to operate it. Thank you.

6233 THE ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT O F U GANDA TUESDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2022 2. To analyse the type of accidents and the total admissions; 3. To conduct an in-depth analysis of the total estimated costs of road traffic accidents and to review challenges in the road safety sector in the country; and 4. To develop a policy brief and recommendation in terms of laws, training, monitoring, and specific budget allocations that policymakers can consider in addition to increasing funding. The hospitals whose data we analysed were Arua, Entebbe, Fort Portal, Gulu, Hoima, Jinja, Kabale, Masaka, Mbale, Soroti, Lira, Mbarara, Mubende, Yumbe, Moroto and Naguru regional referral hospitals, and Mulago National Referral Hospital. When coming up with a cost of treatment, we interfaced with the consultants of Mulago and asked them what it costs to treat a patient who is severely injured, moderately injured or with mild injuries. We came up with the guided figures. We also looked at documents: the Annual Health Sector Performance Report, the police accident reports, reports from regional referral hospitals and so forth. Madam Speaker, let me go to some of the results on page 13. In 2018, the total number of accidents were 12,805. Of these 3,194 were fatal. In 2019, the total number of accidents are 12,858. Of these 3,407 were fatal. In 2020, 12,249 accidents occurred; 3,269 were fatal. In 2021, we had a spike, 17,443 accidents occurred and 3,757 were fatal. Madam Speaker, if I break it down to the magnitude of the injuries, and people killed: in 2018, 3,689 people died from accidents. Those seriously injured were 9,541, and those slightly injured were 1,881. In 2019, those who died were 3,880 and those seriously Injured were 9,635. Those slightly injured were 1,175. In 2020, those who were killed were 3,663, those seriously injured were 8,370, and those slightly injured were 979. Finally, in 2021, those who died were 4,159, the seriously injured were 12,589 and those slightly injured were 1,287. Madam Speaker, I would like to draw your attention to table nine. That is comparison of fatalities by road user groups. From that table - I wish the IT man could flush it - motorcyclists accounted for the biggest number of fatalities in all the four years, followed by passengers on motorcycles, followed by pedestrians. There is clear evidence to show that motorcycles, commonly known as boda boda s, are the biggest cause of injuries but most importantly, deaths from road traffic accidents. Page 15: causes of the crashes. We had reckless or careless driving, over speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol, and cars in dangerous mechanical conditions; the causes are up there. I would like to draw your attention to page 21: total admissions. Table 12 on page 21 shows the highest number of cases of admissions due to motorcycles, commonly known as boda boda s. If we break it down by sex, males were certainly more affected and these were males above five years, compared to females. I think it is quite clear on the table. I would like to draw your attention to table 22: again, the problem is boda boda s. Madam Speaker, on the issue of the costs that we pay, that is page 34 - Mr IT, can you please move to page 34? - We broke it down into the costs based on critical level four, critical level three and critical level one. The overall daily cost that we spend on treating accidents is Shs 877 million monthly. It comes to Shs 26 billion and annually, it comes to Shs 315 billion. That is what the sector needs to be able to treat victims of accidents. As Chairperson of the Committee on Health, I know very well that we do not appropriate this amount of money for accidents and

Regarding the issue of giving more money to NAADS to address the challenges in Terego, NAADS is not responsible for disease control. NAADS has been an agency of Government to do strategic intervention, especially in providing seed and planting materials. However, you must be aware that we are rationalising Government agencies and I think we shall advise you on how we can effectively deal with people in Terego. Hon. Koluo, the issue of desilting dams - Yes, Government has been constructing dams in those areas but what is very important to note here is that some people, especially in parts of the country I do not want to mention, do not want to keep these water facilities as their own. I went to commission a water facility near Moroto and they brought all the cows and poured them in the dam. When they do it regularly, they desilt. I think it is very important that when Government constructs infrastructure for water, the community should really preserve that facility as theirs. I will be in Moroto and in that part of Katakwi - I will be in eastern Uganda in the last week of November and one of the challenges we want

Honourable minister, now that you have committed to come to Eastern Uganda on your way to Moroto and the honourable’s district, there is this quarantine that you imposed on districts of Bududa, Manafwa and Namisindwa to curb the spread of anthrax. The livestock farmers are irked with the delayed intervention. Even when anthrax is no longer ravaging the animals as it was much earlier, you have not mentioned when you will lift this quarantine in Bududa.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. First, I want to thank the committee for producing an elaborate report. However, there are some gaps in the reports about Moroto or Karamoja in general.

5902 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION We have been constantly reporting inadequacies in terms of our facilities, especially the mortuary. Mr Speaker, in the whole of Karamoja region, there is no functional mortuary. When someone dies in Moroto or Kotido, they have to transport the body to Mbale for treatment, and then back to Karamoja for burial. The Ministry of Health should address this issue because it is very urgent. Otherwise, this has been going on for quite some time. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr Speaker.I would like to thank the Prime Minister and her team for delivering on my request to get some relief food for the nodding disease victims in Omoro, and generally. Wheras that was part of the short-term interventions, my prayer is that we find the cause of the disease. We lost three victims last week. It is important that you report to us what the cause is. Secondly, I would like to interest you in the infrastructure of Omoro. Right now, we have Moroto Road that is not motorable. Also, when it rains – (Member timed out.)

Thank you, Mr Speaker. My question is very specific: Moroto-Kalong Road has been damaged by floods. Women are facing difficulties and many people are getting involved in accidents. It is very difficult for people to take the sick to the hospital because of the condition of the road. Orina Road to Laperebong Subcounty has been blocked by water; children are not able to access schools, and women are not able to access markets, and councillors have to swim through to go to the subcounty to attend council meetings. What is Government’s plan for these roads?

5676 STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT students from the various medical schools in Lira and beyond. This affected their NTR collections at the time. The committee notes that such shortfalls in revenue at the Vote level results into aggregate revenue shortfalls at the Treasury level, which, in turn, negatively affects implementation of planned activities at governmental level. The committee notes that Instruction 4.10.2 of the Treasury Instructions, 2017 requires planning and budgeting to be closely linked to the budget to reflect the entity’s policies over the period covered, and should represent a statement of intent against which performance is measured. Therefore, not budgeting for NTR undermines the importance of the budgeting process that affects the posting of the entity accounts. The committee, therefore, recommends that; 1. The entities should strictly plan for NTR in their budgeting process to avoid distortion in economic planning; 2. The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development should always provide technical assistance to entities in areas of economic planning and budgeting; 3. Entities should further look for ways of diversifying their revenue sources to ensure that they meet the targeted NTR thresholds. Delayed remittance of deductions to Uganda Consumers and Lenders Association (UCLA) and Uganda Bankers Association (UBA) Mr Speaker, the Auditor-General noted that in a significant number of referral hospitals, statutory payroll deductions were made without making timely remittances to the lending institutions, contrary to Paragraph 4.6.1 of the Establishment Notice No.2 of 2019, which requires payroll deductions to be remitted concurrently with salary payments. In the case of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, for example, deductions to a tune of Shs 151 million were not remitted in accordance with the above establishment notice. The accounting officer attributed this to system challenges. The committee did not believe him. For example, Masaka Regional Referral Hospital payroll deductions of Shs 222,282,880 were not concurrently remitted with salary payments in 10 out of the 12 months, with an average delay of 11 days. Such delays to remit deductions arising out of a loan obligation create accumulated arrears that expose the staff to increased loan burden through interest in surcharge. It also encumbers their financial cards, thereby curtailing their ability to access credit facilities in future. The committee recommends strict adherence to Paragraph 4.6.1 of the Establishment Notice No.2 of 2019, failure of which should attract sanctions to the accounting officer in question. Delayed Remittance of Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) deductions to URA The Auditor-General noted that a number of entities such as Mubende, Lira, Gulu, Kabale and Moroto regional referral hospitals delayed remittance of PAYE deductions to URA for periods ranging from 13 to 27 days, disregarding Section 123 of the Income Tax Act 1997, which requires withholding agents to remit to URA any tax that has been withheld or that should have been withheld within 15 days after the end of each month in which the payment subject to withholding tax is made. The committee noted that a number of entities delayed remittances of deductions to URA, contrary to the law. Accounting officers attributed this to system failures although the committee received no evidence of this communication to URA. It is also incomprehensible that these system failures would affect all entities the same way so as to attract similar delays.

Thank you. Now, there are some things, which I avoid because they make us look shabby before the public. Government Chief Whip, you know what I mean. Kindly, go and follow up on that. Okay? Hon. Lulume, please, I have passed on my message. MR MOSES ALEPER (NRM, Chekwii County (Kadam), Nakapiripirit): Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I rise on a matter of urgent national importance concerning the Muyembe-Nakapiripirit Road, which is due for tarmacking. This is a road which serves the regions of Karamoja, Sebei and parts of Bugisu and connects them to the rest of Uganda. Right now, there are torrential rains in that part of the country and the road has been ravaged to the extent that traffic is completely cut off. That is the only connection to the southern part of Karamoja. Even if you pass through Moroto, you will still encounter such difficulty. Around this time last year, the road construction was two years behind schedule. As we speak now, it is three years behind schedule, yet it is a five-year contract. What is happening is that the people using the road spend nights. Since the 22 nd of August, the road has been cut off. I attempted to go to my constituency over the weekend, but spent one night on the road and just had to come back.

Mr Speaker, thank you for finally picking on me. I am so grateful for the committee and the report they have presented. I am glad that they have talked broadly about prisoners. And, as you note, like for the case of Karamoja, just like my colleague has indicated, disarmament is on-going. And the numbers are swelling because many people are actually conscripted; they are not screened, yeah. It takes a long time for them to be screened and that is the reason there are many of them, overcrowding some of these facilities. Therefore, I would like to propose together with a team, that we really think about these alternatives to imprisonment for certain cases. These offenders can actually contribute immensely to the country. So, we really need to be able to think about that, Secondly, the report rightly talks about strengthening collaboration with actors in the criminal justice system to reduce the prisons population. There are certain cases that you can dispose of without necessarily taking someone to prison, and this can go a long way in reducing the numbers in prisons. Finally, in the case of Moroto, for instance, the prison facility serves a wide area. So, you find prisoners from Napak and Nabilatuk being taken to the Moroto facility, and overcrowding becomes inevitable. I think there is need to start thinking about another prison unit to reduce on the numbers that are kept in one particular facility. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I also want to thank the committee for this good report and to echo a few issues concerning the Uganda Prisons Service. The concern that I have is about the inadequate housing for the staff and prisoners. Kotido Prison is one of the oldest we have in this country. In fact, it has dilapidated structures – the walls are almost collapsing. The point in case is when they attempted to break into the armoury just because of the weak and poor structures that the prison has. It has a chain link fence – of I do not know how many years back – with patches. This can be an avenue for prisoners to escape. I think Government should pursue the idea of low-cost housing since prisoners are engaged in brick-making and Government can cover the rest of the costs. Mr Speaker, many of our prisons are also filled with cattle thieves – as my colleagues said before – and they are not screened. I have some prisoners from Kotido – who are cattle thieves – andhave been in Moroto Prison for over three years, but they have not even been presented before court. I think this is because of tlack of information that they need to have legal representation. I think it is important that Government screens these cattle thieves because we cannot have chicken thieves there and – (Member timed out.)

Madam Speaker, the fact that I come from Karamoja already tells Members of this House that I come from one of the most disadvantaged parts of this country. Madam Speaker, I have risen up on matters of national importance on two grounds. One of them is insecurity that pertains there. The second is compensation. It is good to make Members here know exactly what is happening inside Karamoja. It is extremely unfortunate that there is a part of this country called Uganda, where we lose over 13 people on a daily basis. It is very serious, Members. Madam Speaker, before I pray – (Laughter)– Members need to know that prayers always follow problems. You do not hurry to pray when you have not assembled the problem properly. I beg the indulgence of Members and the Rt Hon. Speaker that I alert this House briefly about what pertains on the ground so that we appreciate it. Members, there are serious problems inside Karamoja. As we speak, Karamoja has become a theatre of wars; it is now serious. It is no longer a Karamoja issue because as we talk, the Toposa who are in South Sudan, are liaising with part of the Karimojong in Kaabong. The ones in Kenya are now liaising with the ones on Moroto side and they are now fighting inside Uganda. As I talk, a lot of guns have flooded Karamoja. No wonder, the impact is now being felt in other neighbouring districts. The trouble in Karamoja does not only affect Karamoja; it affects even neighbouring districts and causes a lot of financial loss to this country.