Fort Portal Municipality MP bitter with town clerk for swindling 300m.
By Francis Tusiime 13/01/2013
Kabarole
Hon.Alex Ruhunda the Fort Portal Municipality Member of Parliament has
expressed despointment to the public up on the conduct of the Fort
Portal Municipality town clerk Lwanga Edward for swindling 300 million
meant to construct the municipal chambers.
The Member of Parliament while addressing the municipal technocrats
and local leaders at the launch of Kyebambe Kuku road today in Fort
Portal town, Ruhunda observed that he was disappointed when he went to
the ministry of finance looking for the money that was meant
to construct the municipal chambers and was to hear that the money was
released long time ago.
The legislature said he tried to task the town clerk to explain but
had no explanation because the money was not accounted for and the
municipal chambers are just their rotting in the ground.
The MP said that people are smearing the NRM government is not
performing well yet the money has been released but ends in the hands
of the technocrats.
He vowed to take an action against such wrong doors that are
sabotaging the dream of Fort Portal city.
When we contacted the town clerk he could not pick the phone, But
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Fort Portal has received 500m road fund.
By Francis Tusiime 13/1/2014
Kabarole
The Fort Portal Municiaplity Engineer Kaihura Hebert has disclosed
that the municipality has received 500 million shillings under road
fund to upgrade all the municipality roads for the finacial year
2014/15.
Speaking to a team lof politicians and technocrats led by Hon Alex
Ruhunda today at Buhinga revealed that they will be up grading 4 roads
to first class marrum which include Kyebambe-Kuku road,
Buhinga-Kitumba road among others and the rest will be opened as earth
roads.
Asaaba Edson Ruyonga the Fort Portal Municipality mayor said that the
people must play a role of watch dog if they are to get quality work.
The mayor cautioned people who build in the road reserves will face
destruction of their properties and there is no compensation, but
asked them to cooperate with the municipality to bring development in
their areas.
Alex Ruhunda the Fort Portal Municipality MP warned municipal
engineers to produce high quality desist any shoddy work.
He said that many roads have been worked on but they are destroyed by
weather vagaries it is poorly constructed.
Friday, 10 January 2014
Kabarole leaders not monitoring govournment programs.
A
section of disappointed youths in Kabarole are accusing the district
leaders and members of parliament for abandoning the shs300m Youth
Center located in Nyabukara ,West division, Fort Portal municipality.
The shs300m Youth center funded through the presidential pledge was commissioned on 2nd April 2013 and was expected to be completed and handed over to the beneficiaries in July 2013 something that has not been done.
However
the contractor one Fred of Cornerstone Uganda construction company Ltd
did shoddy work and abandoned the building while on roofing level.
Richard
Mpagi Murangi secretary for finance Kabarole youth council is blaming
the shoddy work and abandoning of the construction works at the site to
the leaders especially members of parliament for not supervising the
project and yet all the 300shs required for the finishing of the
building was sent under the presidential pledge.
Mpagi
who wants the contract terminated with immediate effect shifts the
delay in construction work to MPs Alex Ruhunda of Fort Portal, Steven
Kagwera MP Burahya, Victoria Businge Rusoke Woman MP Kabarole and
MINISTER Adolf Mwesige of Bunyangabu for their failure to go back to the
site to supervise and monitor the progress of the project.
Gilbert
Kayondo, Youth Councilor Fort Portal Municipality explains that they
are disappointed with the leaders because they were planning to host the
National Youth celebrations slated for July and lobby the president to
give them funds for hotels.
However
when our contacted Hon.Alex Ruhunda he says as MPs they are loaded with
duties in their constituencies and blamed the youth for not being
effective in monitoring and supervising their won projects.
Kabarole youth leaders want youth center construction contract terminated.
By Francis Tusiime 10/1/2013
Kabarole
Kabarole
youth leaders want youth center construction contract terminated.
Kabarole youth have asked Kabarole
district local leaders to effect the termination of the contract for the
construction of the youth center.
Basiima Ronald Hidden Akiiki the
Kabarole youth chairman observed that they received 300.000 shillings from the
office of the prime minister under presidential pledge for the construction of
the youth center for Kabarole.
The contract was awarded to Cornerstone
Construction Company on 6th September 2013 and was supposed to be
accomplished on 2nd April 2013; their disappointment the three
months contact has spent seven months.
Speaking to the media after the
sight meeting held at Booma, Basiima said that despite the contract has been
delayed they have produced shoddy work on the walls, roof among others.
The house that will be housing a
public social hall, 1 store, 9 offices seating on 2 hectares of land
The chair said that he is going to
petition the office of the prime minister to send an auditor to evaluate value
for money and also issue a termination of the contract.
Kayondo Gilbert a youth leader said
that some leaders are conniving with the contractor to eat money the work is
not done.
He adds that under the presidential
pledge a hydro form machine was received but its rotting the district store
because they lack a house where to keep it.
Karugutu Health centre Four in a solely state, residents want leader’s intervention.
Karugutu Health
centre Four in a solely state, residents want leader’s intervention.
By Francis Tusiime
10/1/2014
Ntoroko
Residents of Karugutu have expressed concern to the local
leaders that the only health centre that is saving their lives is in a solely
state.
Mbaluha Mwemwece Deputy in charge of the health centre
revealed that recently the health center was de-roofed by heavy hail storm
Despite the facility is helping local people no leader has
come up to handle the situation yet they are having many referrals.
He said that UNCEF has come out to help the locals by
providing tents but the numbers of patients is over whelming.
The health center receives 5 patients per day who are referred,
and receive over 30 out patients.
Currently the health centre has only one ward that is used
by both men and women, delivering mothers, they also have one ambulance.
Mbaluha says the leaders must come in and lobby support for
the rehabilitation of the health center before people begin dying on verandas.
Friday, 6 December 2013
MPs Need 125 Signatures To Censure Tumwebaze
MPs Need 125 Signatures To Censure Tumwebaze
BY AGENCIESThe latest reports reaching us indicate that Members of Parliament have today, Thursday, embarked on a signature collecting exercise in a move to censure the minister for the Presidency and Kampala city, Frank Tumwebaze.
The clerk to parliament, Jane Kibirige, has granted permission to the MPs seeking to censure Kampala & Presidency minister Tumwebaze over his actions during the impeachment of the Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago.
According to rule 98 of the Ugandan parliament, the petitioners now have 10 days to collect at least one third of signatures (125) and if those days elapse without the required signatures, the censure will be no more.
According to an inside source, the censure team led by the Kween county MP, Abdi Fadhil Chemaswet, the MPs so far have only three signatures.
Those who signed are Chemaswet himself, Gerald Karuhanga, the Western Youth MP, who is said to be the brain behind it all but tactically chose a majority ruling NRM member and another not yet established.
“We are confident that we will collect the required 125 signatures to censure Tumwebaze,” Karuhanga was quoted as saying.
On Wednesday, the NRM caucus tabled the censure move but some MPs disputed it apart from Chemaswet who argued that Tumwebaze’s conduct at City Hall was “a blunder because it inflicted pain on many people”.
“I can’t drop what I have started given what happened at KCCA,” h
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