Ugandan Finance Ministry asks for refund after mistakenly sending excess money to students in China

Uganda’s Finance Ministry mistakenly sent $600,000 instead of $61,800 to the Ugandan Embassy in China for Ugandan students in Wuhan, where the Coronavirus outbreak started. The finance minister is  now demanding that the embassy refund $538,200.

In a letter dated 10^th March from the Ugandan Finance minister the Ugandan Embassy in China was notified the excess amount send was due to an erroneous error.

As you are aware, on the 28^th February this Ministry transferred USSD 600,000 to the Ugandan Mission in Beijing to support the affected students. However upon receipt of the cabinet extract, we noted that there is a discrepancy between the amounts therein and the stated in the letter from the ministry- The letter read.

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“The purpose of this letter is therefore to direct you to return the excess USD 538,200 back to the Contingencies Fund account as detailed below” the letter stated

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Uganda is yet to confirm any coronavirus case. The ministry of health confirmed that the tests done on a suspected person who showed corona like symptoms turned out negative.

However the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has directed all schools to close indefinitely beginning next week.

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