NITA-Uganda

Members of Parliament of Uganda have unanimously approved a US$140 million loan to finance the Uganda Digital Acceleration Project (UDAP), and ring-fenced it to the implementing agency, National Information Technology Authority-Uganda (NITA-U). In a rare show of unanimity untypical of loan requests, the Opposition’s only rider has been having the money strictly supplied to NITA-U, in an apparent bid to protect it from being generally applied to budget support, which would spread it across all votes. Speaking in support of the loan, John Bosco Ikojo, the Chairperson of the Committee on National Economy, said if implemented, the project will go…