Ntungamo Mps, District officials lock horns over Roads cash
The Ntungamo District members of parliament are at loggerheads with political and civil servants for shunning district roads committee meetings.
According to the district roads committee chairperson who is also Mp for Kajara county, Hon Timuzigu Michael Kamugisha, the letter dated 6th June 2024 invited the members to meet yesterday 20th June 2024 at 9:00am in the district council Hall, but it was their dismay to receive another letter from district Engineer, Kushemererwa Charles, a few hours to the meeting that it had been postponed to a later date.
Hon Timuzigu noted that the district Eng usurped the powers of the chairperson Roads committee to postpone the meeting without his knowledge.
He revealed that it was a shock for all political and civil leaders including the chief administrative officer to shun the meeting expressing that there must be something they are hiding.
Hon Timuzigu assured the general public that the meeting has been rescheduled for today Friday 21th June, 2024 and if the district team fails to turn up, they will petition the Uganda Road fund and office of the IGG to swing into action to investigate if the UGX 1.7Bn road fund had been utilized efficiently.
He said that no money should be returned to the coffers yet the District roads are impassable.
The MP Rushenyi county Hon Naome Kabasharira noted that as MPs will not sit back and watch yet the road funds in the district are being mismanaged by the technocrats.
Hon Kabasharira noted that they had been requesting for the BOQs (Bill of Quantities) but in vain which raises a suspicion that there must be some rot in the district roads.
However, the postponement letter noted that the political and civil leaders are engaged in PDM work with the Office of the Prime Minister in Kampala from 18th to 21st, June 2024.
