Budget hits Shs 10 trillion mark

It is budget day today. But with a country riding against a tide of spiraling inflation and rising costs of fuel and food, millions of Ugandans will be waiting to hear what the new Minister of Finance, Maria Kiwanuka, has in her maiden national budget speech for the financial year 2011/2012.

With a resounding election victory in February, the new ruling NRM government has a strong mandate to turn around the broadly pessimistic economic mood in the country and present a pro-people budget

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