Shocking!! How State House Spent More Than Eight Times Its Original Budget

Parliament reported that State House spent Shs982,000,000,000 in FY 2025/26 against an original allocation of Shs119,000,000,000.

Appearing before the Budget Committee on 11 November 2026, Henry Musasizi (Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development) said an approved supplementary budget covered shortfalls in classified expenditure.

He said government must ensure the President has sufficient resources to perform his duties.


The reference to classified expenditure also presents an accountability challenge because such spending is not always disclosed in the same detail as ordinary government expenditure. Nevertheless, the use of public funds remains a matter of national interest and must operate within the applicable legal and parliamentary oversight frameworks.

Ugandans deserve to understand how public money is being utilised, particularly when supplementary allocations run into hundreds of billions of shillings.

The revelation now places State House expenditure under the spotlight and raises broader questions about the country’s budgetary discipline.

While Musasizi insists that the President must be adequately facilitated to perform his duties, Parliament and the public still have legitimate questions about how an institution initially allocated Shs119 billion ended up spending Shs982 billion in a single financial year.