Minister of Finance Ericah Shafudah says that NamPost was awarded the tender of distributing grants as a result of the public entity to public entity procurement strategy.

This was her response to IPC MP Lilian Lutuhezi, who sought clarity on how the ministry came to the decision.

"The ministry has chosen to adapt a public entity-to-entity local strategy for the appointment of NamPost as a state-owned enterprise with the capacity and capability to manage these grants, and this is done consistently or inconsistently with section 32 of the Public Procurement Act. So there is no problem here; they are responsible now for managing this contract, and they are doing it, and they have started doing it since October 2025."