The Speaker, Hon. Kadaga expressed her concerns on why Government comes for supplementary funding on many other things apart from the education of children of Uganda, which is still expensive.
the remarks following a response by State Minister for Primary Education Rosemary Seninde on the failure by the Higher Education Students Financing Board to absorb over 4,000 applicants for the students’ loan scheme who had been duly admitted in various public universities.
Responding to the matter raised by Hon. Joseph Sewungu (DP, Kalungu West), Seninde told the House on Tuesday, 01 October 2019 that there were no funds to cater for the applicants under the scheme.“We made a request in a letter to Ministry of Finance, who responded with a proposal that the students under the scheme be catered for in the 2020/2021 financial year,” said Seninde.
