The
Kabarole district councilor Hon. Paul Katisa while appearing on the orukurato
live radio discussion indicated that the main role of a Member of Parliament is
to represent people in the parliament, present their problems, issues, plans
and ideas, lobby for the people to have improved service delivery and follow up
the Government plans among other roles.
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| Hon. Jacob Oulanyah - Deputy Speaker Uganda Parliament |
Katisa
added that the Members of Parliament is supposed to follow-up the government funds
to ensure proper accountability in the management of public resources.
The
district councilor was appearing on the orukurato live radio discussion on
Saturday 3rd January 2015 on Hits FM to discuss a topic titled, “Understanding
the role of MPs in Uganda.”
During
the talkshow listeners also participated using call-ins, SMS and online and
over fifteen (15) local citizens called in, among them three (3) were women.
Local
citizens are not happy with the MPs because they have failed to provide
services for 4 years they have spent in the parliament. According to Richard
from Kagote west division, Kabarole district, he explained that Member of
Parliament pledge but do not fulfill their promises, He further said the roads
in Kagote are impassable during rainy seasons, very dusty during dry seasons, full
of potholes, shoddy work is always done when the road is to be worked on, and
we have talked and talked but we can’t see any member of parliament lobbying
for us.
According
to Mary a caller from Mujuju Kabarole District, members of parliament are just
in the parliament to enjoy the taxes we pay and we are here suffering with poor
roads, lack of enough medicine in hospital and no one to lobby for us.
Andrew
a caller from Mukubo Kabarole District indicated that members of parliament
have disappointed us, because they make false promises just to win votes and
when they get to parliament they don’t come back on ground to consult their
electorates.
More
about the roles of MPs follow this link http://www.parliament.go.ug/new/index.php/about-parliament/functions-of-parliament
The live radio discussion is
supported by SIDA/CIPESA and NED on a project aimed at converging the use of
appropriate ICT tools to improve service delivery.
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