My suggestion is that the entire Arua district officials in charge/responsible for the finances be sacked immediately and a new one appointed for the following reasons: i. Failure to offer advice to requisitioners to utilize budgeted and allocated funds thus failing to provide the services as a result this incompetence. ii.Wastage of resources:Budget Officers should resign their positions immediately and be charged by DPP for wasting scarce resources-they're to be held criminally responsible and jailed as these resources could have been used to acquisition drugs,maintain the road networks,etc. iii.Incompetence:Lack of foresight,effective monitoring,proactiveness and strategic planning to perform their basic functions. My recommendations for the next budget (2010/11) is that the Arua district budget must be reduced by 1.7 b shillings and I am so angry to see people causing such wastage with impunity-let us curb this seriously and I want to see WND participate actively in contributing to ensure this never repeats by doing the following: i.Write to the concerned authorities demanding full explanation. ii.Prepare its recommendations on the way forward and suggest the following: -Establish a Monitoring system to ensure budgeted and allocated funds are utilized -Inititate workshops in all the sub-counties to enlighten communities on required services that have been planned in the budgets -Lobby private investors to invest in manufacturing,tourism infrastracture,rail/river transportation,mineral exploration,agroforestry,timber processing,transportation,trade,waste management,etc iii.Initiate legal action-the charge is deliberately denying required services thus causing untold suffering (luck of drugs,water,development,etc) and white collar crime (incompetence,unprofessional actions,etc)-The legal approach will ensure that public servants are held accountable for their actions. Milton
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RE: Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings - Commentry (Sam Aderubo) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:11:26 +0300 From: "Sam Aderubo" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings - Commentry To: "'A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile'" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Mr. President, Many people have expressed their views and various opinions have been given on this subject. From the views and opinions, we are certainly in position to identify a number of problems. I imagine the way forward is to see how and where WNF comes in. The challenge I see though is that up to this point all the arguments about this and that are being raised from one side. We have still not heard from the Local Government side. Ideally, they should have presented the problem statement to us before the forum members take to the floor. Mr. President, as we try to forge a working relationship with our local leaders, we need to be mindful that our success as community pressure group in making a positive contribution to the development of our region has a lot to do with the full involvement of the local leaders. They are the people on ground. They know much more how the system they work in operates. Obviously they know what has and what has not happened in this case. This debate has nearly come to an end. A decision will have to be made. The question is "How are we going to make such a decision when one side of the story is not presented?" And even if we did, how and where do we start the working relationship? We can not afford to work in isolation or else our efforts may be frustrated. It is therefore important, Mr. President that you seek audience with the Accounting Officer to appear on this forum. If possible, you should also give us direction on this issue so that together we resolve what course of action to take. This issue is very important to all of us and it would be good to reach a meaningful position on it. Sam Aderubo _____ From: gard ajedra [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 7:30 PM To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings - Commentry Fellow citizens from Arua, It very disgusting to say the least. It is a reflection of the type of leadership we have in Arua District; from the RDC to LC-V to whoever.... When services are not delivered we are very quick to blame the Central government. Implementation of government or local government projects requires proper planning and active finance and planning committee comprising the CAO, RDC (overseer of government programmes), and of course the LC-V who is the "governor" of the district. To begin with one of the them has not been in the office (because he is studying at a univeristy), the other is fighting everbody in the district (the Municpality inclusive) and the CAO is left to handle everything from planning to accounting for funds. What would you expect!!! In my view for any local government system to work, we must have appropriate structures in place and clear headed people in the structures to manage for effective implementation of projects. Proprer project planning is therefore a pre-quisite for effective service delivery, which comprises the following stages; DEFINITION OF THE SCOPE OF WORKS, PREPARATION OF PROCUREMENT DOCUMENTS, TENDERING AND AWARD, COMMISSIONING THE CONTRACTOR, ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION STAGE, TESTING & COMMISSIONING THE PROJECT AND THE FINAL HANDOVER. All these stages have a finite time frame that can not be circumvented. Therefore, if funds are returned like the above situation, it is a reflection of proper planning on the part the part of those charged in the District. It also shows that our District leaders have failed our people. --- On Mon, 6/21/10, Patrick Okuni <[email protected]> wrote: From: Patrick Okuni <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, June 21, 2010, 4:30 AM Ori Over to you for as comment... Patrick --- On Fri, 18/6/10, Patrick Ezaga <[email protected]> wrote: From: Patrick Ezaga <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Arua fails to spend 1.7 B shillings To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 18 June, 2010, 23:22 Caleb, Did they provide any reasons for what i would like to term as sheer madness? On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Caleb Alaka <[email protected] <http://uk.mc301.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[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://uk.mc301.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[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). 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