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
Dear brothers and sisters, I am not very surprised and socked that Arua district has to return unspent money to the treasury. This is not the first time, this has been recurring problem. Why does this happen almost every financial year? a) Lack of adequate planning & Vision b) Lack of cooperation amongst key stakeholders *Education Sector* Why would our regional planners not spend such amount on money on simple projects i) a school library or laboratory, chemicals or books? or hire social woerkers for a cluster of schools? ii) The need for improving schools is endless *Road Sector* If local leaders only plan to expand murram roads by tarmac roads at a rate of 5km or 10 km per year, the funds would be utilized fully. Why would it defeat our local leaders to build a bridge at Ediofe, yet people wed through the water going to the cathedral? *Water* It's lamentable that water sector would not use funds for providing safe water for the public. What does this tell us? Do some of these people know or care about the needs of the public? WNF needs to step up efforts to get its feet on the ground. We must work extra hard to build partnership with local leaders to change direction. Discussing problems without practical help will not lead us us anywhere at all. JJAvudria On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:11 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings (Robert Ejiku) > 2. Re: Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings (peter odama) > 3. Re: Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings (christine munduru) > 4. RE: Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings (Sam Aderubo) > 5. (no subject) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:05:41 +0300 > From: Robert Ejiku <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > [email protected] > > 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/[email protected]/ > > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20100616/1f827b45/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:16:08 +0300 > From: peter odama <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > [email protected] > > 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/[email protected]/ > > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20100616/1c52c94f/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:36:00 -0700 (PDT) > From: christine munduru <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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 <[email protected]> > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > >[email protected] > >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/[email protected]/ > > > >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. > >_______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20100616/6ca6a9f4/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:09:30 +0300 > From: "Sam Aderubo" <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings > To: "'A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile'" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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 the local leaders to give their side of the > story. I am sure issues like delays in the procurement process, late > release > of funds by the ministry etc will surface. But I know that local > governments > work on annual plans and any such issues, especially procurement related > could be partly a result of improper planning. > > > > Please let us have the accounting officer on board to give us a clip of > what > happened. 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