Nwoya council approves over sh700m supplementary budget

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The Nwoya District Council has approved a supplementary budget of shillings 751,403,993 for the financial year 2025/2026.

The motion was tabled by the district secretary for finance, planning, administration and investment, Betty Atim, on December 17, 2025, during a special full council sitting, in accordance with the Local Governments Finance and Accounting Regulations, 2007.

Atim said the supplementary budget was necessitated by additional funding from the health ministry and that of lands.

A key component was shillings 150 million that had remained idle at Anaka Hospital for over eight years due to a lack of applicants for advertised medical officer positions.

She said the district executive committee, in consultation with the health ministry, resolved to reallocate the funds to urgent hospital needs, including renovation of the neonatal intensive care unit, repair of theatre equipment, ambulance repairs and fuel, and purchase of medical equipment and oxygen concentrators.

Anaka Hospital medical superintendent Jolly Joe Lapat confirmed that both the ministries of health and finance approved the reallocation, subject to council approval.

Council also approved shillings 20 million under the physical planning grant, 63 million for recurrent costs at Got Apwoyo Seed School, 391 million under VAT-development for the school’s construction, and 127 million for farmer co-funding under the Micro-Scale Irrigation Project.

Speaker Tony Okello said the approvals revise the district’s total budget from shillings 33.02 billion to 33.77 billion.