A section of local government accounting officers from Acholi Sub-region has attributed delays in submitting their budget estimates for FY2022/23 to system errors on the Ministry of Finance Programmer Budgeting System software.
This comes days after the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Ramathan Ggoobi revealed last week that only 66 out of 110 accounting officers submitted their respective budget estimates for FY2022/23.
In a July 7th, 2022 letter to all Local government accounting officers, Ggoobi threatened to cancel the appointments of 110 accounting officers for breaching the statutory deadlines for effective commencement of the budget for FY2022/23 for local government votes.
In Acholi Sub-region, local governments that failed to submit their budget estimates include, Gulu City, Amuru, Omoro, Kitgum Municipality, and Nwoya District.
But Gulu City Clerk Isiah Tumwesigye told Journalists in an interview yesterday that the delays weren’t a personal omission but rather the system challenges they encountered while uploading the budget estimates on the program budgeting system.Mr.Tumwesigye speaking….
Tuwmesigye says the city council approved its budget of 50.7 Billion Shillings for FY2022/23 late last month but their attempts to upload the details on the Finance Ministry budget system proved futile.
Mr. Thomson Obong, Amuru Chief Administrative Officer, says that although they managed to submit their budget estimates early, there were no officials to approve them. END.