[WestNileNet] MOSA MEETINGS

2010-06-16 Thread Sam Ejibua
Mvara Old Students and well wishers You are invited for a meeting in relation to preparations fort he second re-union day this friday 18th June 2010 at Choma Bar/Restaurant at Centenary park, Kampala. We need your input in preparations for this day. See you then. Those in Arua, the meetings

[WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings

2010-06-16 Thread Caleb Alaka
Arua Local Government is to return close to Shillings 2,000,000,000/= (two billion) to the Central Government after the authorities failed to utilise the funds. The money was meant for service delivery during the 2009/10 Financial year. The Sectors that failed to use the money are works and

Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings

2010-06-16 Thread Robert Ejiku
Caleb, Its truly annoying but did he give reasons why. I know of moments when Bushenyi has found itself in similar situations perhaps because of what they now call absorption capacity that John Nasasira's referred to when asked why the hefty 1 trillion for roads was not utilized. But Kanungu

Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings

2010-06-16 Thread peter odama
Dear Colleagues, This is very unfortunate development, it appears the elites and semi elites and the innocent beneficiaries in Arua don't have capacity to utilize this money, but there was no way to defraud this money as such, these monies were sent back as a result. All the local leaders in

Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings

2010-06-16 Thread christine munduru
Dear all, This comes back to accountability of our leaders/governments to the citizens which I spoke about some time back. I did say that while we struggle as WNF to cause development in West Nile, we must hold our leaders/governments accountable to their responsibilities and members disagreed

RE: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings

2010-06-16 Thread Sam Aderubo
Comrades, These are indicators that there are problems in our region and therefore the more reason WNF gets involved in the affairs regarding the local governance in our area. I think we need to use this case as starting point, but approach it objectively. In my opinion, we would request

Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings

2010-06-16 Thread Ejoyi Xavier
Dear Friends, The issue of analysing budget performance is a bit more complex than meets the eye, spanning into multiple variables. Ejiku has hit the nail on the head, this is not something unique to Arua district or even governmental bodies! In utilising budgetary allocations, there are numerous

Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings

2010-06-16 Thread Fred Bada
Dear Freinds I have been reading many of your discussions on this net and i have never participated in the discussions, coz i always don't want to discuss on issues where i have very little or no information. members on this particular topic of discussion, i would advice that we go slow in

Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings

2010-06-16 Thread aliti candia
Dear all, Thanks you for the info on Arua Budget perfirmance 2009/10. I would like to thank Bada Fred for the insight into the possible causes of the unspent balances FY 2009/10. I want to add that where commitments can be ascertained to have been entered into by the Local Government in time

[WestNileNet] Shame on You Arua Local Government

2010-06-16 Thread Dramadri Isaac
Very big shame on the Arua local government, they seem to be very selfish and greedy, how can you fail to spent 1.7b as if there are no problems in Arua. this is the time when the leaders have to give proper accountability of their service to the people, this is too much. A big shame on you

Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings

2010-06-16 Thread Immaculate Bona Maandera
Hi Christine and members, I have not followed discussions here very closely. However, I got curious about the WN-uni. I suppose those of you closeby are in contact with the persons steering the uni. Otherwise, it might be useful to give make comments from this link as well -- if it works --