By Jimmy Muhumuza
Parliament
Last year the ministry of finance and the ministry of health brought
to parliament a supplementary of 18.5 billion shillings to procure
covid19 vaccine so to control the virus which was troubling Uganda and
by then it was the first wave of the virus but today members of
parliament on the parliamentary covid19 task force committee has
learned that the money never reached NRM to buy the vaccine
The MPs on the parliamentary covid19 task force committee which is
investigating the government preparedness towards covid 19, to have
had a meeting with the general manager of the National medical stores
Moses Kamabale together with Matia Kasaija the minister of finance and
they have questioned the general manager of national medical stores to
explain the way about of the money which was appropriated by
parliament to buy covid19 vaccines.
In his response to the committee, Moses kamabale told the committee
that he can not explain the whereabouts of that money since3 they have
never received it and that all the vaccines they have been supplying
were just donated to Uganda and he also added that he adds that the
The Ministry of finance released that money to the ministry of health and
so the ministry of health officials are the right people to answer
that.
MPs also tasked the Minister of Finance to explain to them who then
gave the 18.5 billion which was meant to buy covid 19 vaccines and the
the minister told the committee that he is not very certain if the money
was released to the ministry of health but he promises the committee
that he is going to look into the ministry document to find out who
was given that money and he will return it to them.
The chairperson of the committee Abdul Katuntu told the MPs and the
minister plus the general manager of NMS that he is going to organize
a meeting where all the minister of health and the officials from the
the same ministry will appear before the committee and the minister of
finance And the general manager of NMS will also be invited and the
the main aim will be on how that 18.5 billion was spent.
