Leaders criticise Kiwanuka’s maiden budget

By Solomon Baleke

Karamoja

There are mixed reactions following the presentation of the 2011/12 budget to parliament last week, with the majority of local leaders saying it did not address their prob­lems. Leading the pack was the new Kotido district chairman Karistas Adome Lokwi, who said the new finance minister Maria Ki­wanuka did not allocate enough money to agricul­ture, the backbone of eco­nomic development for the ordinary people in kara­moja. “The items whose tax was

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