By lucky Patrick
The Fort Portal central division male councilor representing Kasusu ward who double as the council chief whip Kenneth Kaliba, has called for disciplinary action against the Fort Portal central division town clerk Mrs. Eunice Kajobe, for failure to give council proper guidance in line with development planning for the central division in Fort Portal.
In his letter dated 28th march 2022 that was presented in council on Tuesday seeking the speaker’s approval to block council from accepting and approving the proposed estimates of income and expenditure, Kaliba accuses the Town clerk of the division for failing to engage the relevant arms constituted within the law to generate a five-year development plan in accordance with the national planning authority upon which the division development plan shall be integrated in the National development plan.
The councilor, argues that the town clerk consciously flouted the financial and accounting rules act of 2007, the local government act cap 243 section 35 [1,3]and the constitution of the republic of Uganda article 190 [1] and other related account laws that govern the country.
Kaliba, also accused the town clerk of failing to put into consideration the directives given to her by the city clerk in 2020 hence failure to come up with the 5-year development plan which is supposed to be followed, saying the town clerk had simply used the Fort portal city council vision and mission yet the division is an independent entity.
The Kasusu ward councilor, says the division had simply duplicated the Fort Portal city council vision and mission instead of having their own generated at a division level, noting that fort portal had grossly violated the constitution of the republic of Uganda, financial rules and regulations act of 2007 and therefore the division is conflicted as far as economic planning is concerned.
Its upon this background he asked the speaker of council to reject the laid budget for committee’s assessment pending approval.
However, when the speaker asked the town clerk to defend herself on the allegations the division clerk denied any laxity on duty and insubordinate to his supervisor claiming that she had never been called in any disciplinary committee over the same and failure to perform her duties.
She said the prayer by the councilor to have the motion of laying the budget which had been completed earlier, to be rescinded would not be possible since the law provides for 6 months, Saying the councilor who is also a member of the finance committee was out of order by making such claims in council.
Richard Muhumuza, the central division Mayor Fort portal said it’s not true as alleged the Kasusu ward male councilor that the council was sleeping and the population is struggling to get service delivery.
Muhumuza ,said some technocrats who were not supporting him in the previous general elections are the same helping a section of council to orchestrate documents that tend to discredit efforts of the division council in regard to the service delivery.
A section of councilors whom we interviewed after the council, who preferred to talk to us on condition of anonymity , said the councilor had articulated crucial issues as regards the law however they couldn’t come out directly to support him in council for fear of reprisal by the speaker and some members of the executive.
The Fort portal central division laid a 2.5 billion budget estimate
