Following the refusal by President Yoweri Museveni to sign the Appropriation Bill 2024 into law, Adolf Mwesige, Clerk to Parliament, has recalled Members of Parliament (MPs) from recess in order to reconsider the President’s concern raised in the letter, accompanying the returned Appropriation Bill 2024.
The Parliament passed the Appropriation bill 2024 on Thursday 16th of May, 2024.
Adolf Mwesige revealed that the President returned the Bill to Parliament for reconsideration in accordance with the provisions of Article 91 (b) and (c) of the constitution.
“This is to inform you that there will be a plenary sitting of Parliament on Tuesday, 2nd July at 2:00pm to reconsider the Appropriation Bill 2024,” Mwesige alerted the MPs.
Museveni declined to sign the Bill cautioning the Parliament to restore the Sh750 million that were reallocated from the government’s priorities in the period 2024/2025 Budget.
An Appropriation Act is a law that contains the amount of money to be spent by each government ministry, department and local government, and authorizes the withdrawal of that money from the Consolidated Fund.
The object of the Appropriation Bill was to provide for the authorization of public expenditure from the Consolidated Fund in the amount of Sh30.314 billion to meet the expenditure for the year ending June 30, 2025 and to appropriate supplies granted by Parliament.
