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 statutory regulations that need to be complied with to the extent that should one thing delay (e.g the responsible staff is on study leave), the entire chain comes to a halt. In addition, I would not be surprised if the Ushs 1.7B or part of it being returned is from a certain donor who have additional guidelines quite often outside the GoU set procedures. Besides, it would be interesting to find out when the funds intended for specific projects were actually disbursed to the district.
In my own assessment, this issue points to the fallacy of decentralisation we now enjoy in Uganda that is a start departure from what it was in the mid to late nineties. The fact that instead of empowering local governments to raise funds to support their priorities articulated in their budgets, we could rather subject them to tightly controlled central government disbursements, appointment of accounting officers, rules and regulations is in itself defeating to the concept of decentralisation. However, in all these there is always a place for responsibility for the local leaders that they may need to own up to. So it is wise to assess the whole extent of the problem. Ndugu Xavier Ejoyi On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, peter odama <peter.od...@googlemail.com>wrote: > 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 the district have pay dearly 1st priority the > heads in the district, and we need more dossiers to back further argument > and concrete defence, therefore we shall definitely reach the societies in > Arua for appropriate action. we have been crying the government is not > helping, but when she helps, we even don't know why we are helped, this is a > mess, and needs urgent corrective measures > > Odama > > > On 16 June 2010 11:14, Caleb Alaka <calebal...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> 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 water departments (1.1bn), Education shs 322 Million and peace recovery >> and development program (276M). The unspent monies were meant for >> construction of community roads, drilling of bore holes, construction of >> schools and maintenance of feeder roads that is according to the secretary >> finance Arua District Local Government one Sam Wadri Nyakua. >> >> This scenario is so annoying. We are breaking our backs to ensure that our >> region copes up with the rest in terms of development, our local leaders are >> obdurately failing us. what are your comments ladies and gentlemen. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WestNileNet mailing list >> WestNileNet@kym.net >> http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet >> >> WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >> >> All Archives can be found at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/westnilenet@kym.net/ >> >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >> attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. >> _______________________________________________ >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > WestNileNet@kym.net > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/westnilenet@kym.net/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > _______________________________________________ > >
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