Uganda’s Presidential Jet is stuck in the United States over Covid-19. State House Comptroller Lucy Nakyobe made the revelation while appearing before Parliament yesterday as she explained how the pandemic has affected State House operations.
“Our jet was out for maintenance in the US and the maintenance normally takes a month but because of the lockdown globally, it has taken four months and for all those months we have had to maintain our crew which is very costly,”she said.
Nakyobe was appearing before Parliament’s Accounts Committee to answer queries raised by the Auditor General in financial year 2018/19.
On a positive note, however, Nakyobe said the lockdown has help State House control its expenditures. “Although Covid19 has largely been bad, it has also had come with some good things. For State House if there was no Covid1-9 and we went ahead as per our plans of internal travels, mobilisation, travel abroad…all these would have required more funds but because of the pandemic and the lockdown, these programmes could not go on as planned,” she said