MPs push for more funding for science & technology

KAMPALA - Members of Parliament on the science and technology committee have asked government to allocate more resources to the science and technology sector if the country is to achieve the target of becoming a middle income country by 2020

The MPs were today responding to underfunding concerns raised by officials from the National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST)

Bukonzo West MP Godfrey Katusabe said, "It bothers me to see that the most critical sector to our economic development continues to be starved financially.

"If we don't inject adequate resources in science and technology we shall continue moving in a circle of poverty."

Other MPs who included Eng. Lillian Nakate, Denis Obua, Charles Gutmoi, and Geoffrey Macho supported the agitation  for government to allocate more resources to science and technology.

The UNCST executive secretary Dr. Peter Ndemere said whereas they had requested for sh72b for the 2016/17 financial year, they have been allocated only sh11b.

Here, the chairman of the science and technology committee of parliament Kafeero Sekitoleko receives the National Science Technology and Innovation Plan 2012-2013-2017/2018 from Ndemere. (credit: Maria Wamala)