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 reacting to this matter.
we need to understand how and why local governments can not absorb monies sent to them for the intended service delivery in their areas of jurisdiction. We know that these reaons range from late releases to complications in the procurement procedures. Dear freinds we also need to interest our selves in the harsh working condition in Arua under the leadership of Rtd. Major Ibrahim Abiriga where staffs are beaten, jailed and threatened every other time. Freinds remember this financial year Engineer Pario and his three other collugues were jailed and yet this was a period when they were to produce bis documents, inspect and certify works and produce payment certificates among others. these collegues suffered in the hands of police being arrested, released and re arrested this kind of suffering to me is the major couse of non absorption of funds. Friends the law is very clear that when funds are committed they are not to be returned and a local government only needs to seek the authority of the accountant general to use this funds. we only need to find out from the technical wing weather these funds are commited. Bada Fred ________________________________ From: christine munduru <cmund...@yahoo.com> To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net> Sent: Wed, 16 June, 2010 2:36:00 Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings 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 with me. Can you now see how local governments in Arua are failing us? How many people lack safe water in Arua, how many good murram roads do we have in Arua. Just take the road to Ediofe as a nearby example, what would be the reason to return such money in these situations. Now if WNF was to look for funds for some of these developments and the donors hear money for such things being returned, who would take us serious? These are some of the issues that WNF should start engaging in. I hear the University is in this years budget (not sure), we are not hearing what is going on, I hope the money wont be returned also. Thanks Christine ________________________________ From: Robert Ejiku <ejikurob...@gmail.com> To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net> Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 12:05:41 PM Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings 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 complained of bureaucracy and late releases especially where the PPDA guidelines to procure goods, services and civil works applies. One proposal to solve this problem was to look into the guidelines and reduce on unnecessary red tape at the Ministry of Finance (Azabo). Now I am sure our own in Government who are well versed with these systems may want to educate us the laymen. But should it be sheer incompetence on the part of our program implementers, then the idea of creating as many districts as there are counties might now gain credence. Over to you fellows and all the best. Ejiku On 6/16/10, 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. >_______________________________________________ > >
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