The 2024/25 national budget will be read to the nation on 13th June 2024, following confirmation by President Yoweri Museveni, the Speaker of Parliament, Anita Annet Among, reveals.

“This morning, I got the confirmation from President Museveni on the State of Nation Address. The State of Nation Address will be on 6th June 2024 and the budget reading will be on 13th June 2024 and after that the President will open the next parliament session,” Among said.

Government in March presented a Shs58.34 national budget for the 2024/2025 financial year, intended to focus on ‘full monetisation of the Ugandan economy through agriculture, industrialisation, expanding and broadening services, digital transformation and market access.’

The Minister of State for Finance (General Duties), Henry Musasizi, who presented the budget also listed investments in wealth creation initiatives, investments in social sectors like education, health and water, as well as manufacturing, as the other priority areas.

“The key priority areas include peace and security, road maintenance and construction of a few strategic road and construction of the standard gauge railway, electricity transmission and utilisation of existing energy stock,” he said during the plenary sitting of the House on Thursday 28 March 2024.