The town council chairperson Hon. Hussein Hamada has pledged
to mobilize people in Rwebisengo town council to form groups so that they can benefit
from government programs like wealth creation program. Hon. Hamada said this while
meeting a team from Toro Development Network (ToroDev) a local NGO operating in
the seven districts of Rwenzori sub region and ‘Manya omwebembezi wawe’ talk show moderator on KRC Fm, a local
radio station in Fort Portal in Ntoroko district o 19th
September,2016.
The team was in the field for post election agenda; where
office bearers share their 5 years development plans for the people in their different
constituents. This is aimed at keeping track of what the leaders have pledged
to do for the people and also keep engaging them on service delivery issues.
Hon. Hussein said the short period spent in office, they
have been able to select a water source committee which has undergone training
to help on the issue of access to safe and clean water in the area the fact
that it is one of the core challenges facing the town council. The mayor added
that without a power source, they cannot access water and they are currently working
in partnership with Mid western Umbrella to install solar power source so that
the town council can be supplied with water.
On the health sector, the mayor said he has come up with
names proposed to work on the health management committee and are now awaiting
approval from the council and once they are approved, they will monitor the
health sector in the town council. He has also secured a security guard to
provide security at the health centre for encroachers and animals that graze
within the health centre grounds. The mayor said he plans to have a meeting
with area members of parliament on the issue of drug stock outs where a lot of
drugs get spoilt from the health centre stores due to being provided with drugs
that do not work on the reported diseases
at the health centre hence making them non applicable.
Talking on the education sector, the mayor said he has
realized that most schools have Board members who have over stayed and cannot
perform their duties as expected. He
plans to have new Board members for the schools and also school management
committees so that they are oriented on their roles in order to be watch dogs
of teachers and head teachers especially those who absent themselves without
serious reasons making the schools perform poorly.
On the road sector the mayor plans to implement the
available town council plan by opening new roads with in the town council and
also mobilizing community members to register their land so that they can
acquire land titles to reduce the internal conflicts that come as a result of
disagreements on land issues And also working with the media to inform people
and account to them on a number of engagements.
During the visit the district councilor and speaker Bweramule sub county Hon. Muntu Willy told the
team that the main problem in the area is scarcity of safe and clean water and
they are doing a lot of lobbying to increase access to safe and clean water in the
sub county & district as a whole. Hon. Muntu acknowledged the dropout rate
in schools and failure of school going age children not attending school. He
said they have constructed a staff quarter at Bweramule primary school to solve
the issue of teachers’ absenteeism & another staff quarter at Kabimbiri
primary school is at completion level & plan to at least get 5 staff
quarters with in these 5 years. Pit latrines have been constructed at Haibale
primary school & Bugando primary school to improve on hygiene and
sanitation in these schools. ‘’we are planning to have monthly exams set by a
team of teachers with in the district for our school and we hope this will
improve performance of pupils And also we plan to induct the new school
management committees of their roles in monitoring schools so that the issue of
teachers & head teachers absenteeism is checked.
We are grateful to all our development partners for the
financial & technical support towards the sustainability of these
development programs.
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