Minister Hillary Onek says, Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) spends 4 trillion uagndan shillings annually to buy firewood.
Uganda.
The Office of the Prime Minister spends 4.019 Trillion shillings on purchasing firewood for refugees according to a revelation by Hillary Onek, the minister for relief and disaster preparedness.
The development came up during a parliamentary sitting this week on Thursday noting that the firewood is used by refugees to cook food.
It should be noted that in May this year, President Museveni issued Executive Order No 3 which, among others banned the production of and trade in charcoal in Northern Uganda, as part of the efforts to protect the environment.
The expenditure on firewood is against a sum of 4.944 Trillion shillings spent annually on refugee response by Uganda.
Mr Onek while making such notices before parliament added: “97% refugees (1.3refugees) use firewood each consuming 1.6Kgs per year valued at Shs5000 per day as indicated by research reports of Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO), World Bank, World Food Programme (WFP)”
In fact, while giving this report, Onek revealed that the government was intending to borrow more money to the tune of US$280Mn (Shs1.059Trn) from the World Bank to support refugees living in Uganda
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