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 -- http://www.wnu.ac.ug/contacts.html -- still said to be under construction for quite some time now.
Since they have placed it there with a "please", maybe they do need more heads to join them. Maandera On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:36 AM, christine munduru <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ > >
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