The Uganda Police have requested for 147 billion shillings as supplementary budget to help the force deal with walk to work protests in the Kampala Metropolitan Area.
This comes just four months to the end of the 2011/2012 financial year.
While speaking to a Uganda Radio Network reporter at police headquarters in Kampala on Wednesday, the police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said the money is to assist the police keep law and order in Kampala and the surrounding areas where crime rate has shot up during the walk to work reloaded protests.
In the last one month, police has been heavily deploying in and around the city to contain rallies organised by opposition Activists for Change. Nabakooba now says the force no longer has enough anti-riot gear and money to fund their deployments around the metropolitan area. As a result a proposal for more funding has been forwarded to the Budget Committee of Parliament for consideration.
In the 2011/2012 financial year, police was allocated 93 billion shillings. But the spokesperson says they used up the money in construction works around the Naguru based criminal investigations department, Nateete police station and guarding the Activists for Change rallies all of which consumed close to three-quarters of budget.
At a press conference at Katonga Road on Monday, A4C coordinator, MP Mathias Mpuuga vowed to oppose the budget when it’s brought to parliament.
