According to statistics from the National Planning Authority, of the total current number of 130 ministries, department and agencies, only 27 have successfully submitted their strategic plans that have already been  approved.

Speaking during annual planner’s forum last week, the state minister for finance, David Bahati, said that ordinarily the budget follows planning, but that in Uganda ministries budget are most times approved without proper plans.

He said that in these August releases, no ministry, department or agency will be given money without presenting a strategic plan.

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Parliament of Uganda

The mps who were interfacing with officials from national planning authority at parliament said that the said vision was not got from the NPA officials but from the executive that lack expertise.

They say that such a long term vision should come from the people themselves because they know better the issues that affect them.

They also said that jumping on vision 2040 before fulfilling vision 2025 is a sign of lack of capacity within the planning authority.

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The police have started investigations into the reported corruption at the National Planning Authority.

The probe follows reports of gross mismanagement of public funds and illegal recruitment of workers at the National Planning Authority. The police probe preliminary reports indicates that the authority has been conducting irregular repair of vehicles without following the proper procedures, causing gross loses to the authority.

The national planning authority is an organ mandated to co-ordinate and evaluates frameworks, systems and strategies for cost effective and participatory national development planning.

Police investigators suspect that billions of taxpayers’ money could have been lost due to the report mismanagement of funds at the authority.

The people being investigated at the authority include Dr. Marios Obwana (manager macro economics), Dr. Patrick Birungi (manager strategic planning) and Edith Kasiime Kasaija (manager national resource planning).

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