Rubona Sub county Chairperson calls for improved supervision of Government Projects

Hon. Musinguzi Peter the district chairperson representing Rubona subcounty & Rubona town council who also doubles as secretary for finance at Kabarole district local government has urged duty bearers  to improve on supervision of government projects if we are to get quality services in our communities.

He said government projects especially at sub county level are not fully supervised due to lack of enough funds and also proper planning which leads to sub standard or shoddy work done. ‘’I call upon citizens to develop positive attitude towards supervision of these projects that are being implemented in their areas & to develop a sense of ownership if our communities are to improve in terms of service delivery’’, said Hon. Musinguzi Peter.

While appearing live on ToroDev sponsored ‘Orukurato’ program on 14^th December, 2016 on a weekly program that is aired live every Saturday 8:00pm-10:00pm on HITS FM, the district water engineer Mr. Mugabe Pius, his assistant Mr. Mugabe Nathan & the secretary for finance said the district has received 250 million shillings for road fund and expect 267 million shillings and priority will be given to road development in town councils.

Hon. Musinguzi called upon the youth to organize themselves in groups to benefit from the youth livelihood program which is remaining with a year to close. He reminded the youth on the objectives of the program like fighting poverty, unemployment and skilling the youth in a number of sectors.

As a district we have received funding from French development agency to extend electricity to our people and areas of Rubona, Mukabata, Kitebi, Buhesi, Katebwa, Rwimi towncouncil and other surrounding places will benefit from a project that has reached procurement process, said Engineer Mugabe Pius.

On water sector the district engineer and his assistant said there is an on-going water project covering areas of Rwaihamba and tanks have been secured for reservoirs and within a period of three months from now people in these areas will be accessing piped water. Karago town council design is complete and now we are planning to set up a water system to help our people with issues of safe and clean water.

Citizens are entitled to safe & clean water 

 During the 2 hours live discussion, listeners participated through call-ins; ‘’we really need the water in our areas because we are now approaching dry spells and it is normally worse accessing water, let the district officials help and speed up the process’’, said Ms Katusiime a caller from Karago, ‘’we have not had water for the last two weeks, can the district engineer tell us what the problem is and how are they prepared to help us solve this water issue?’’, said Phiona Amanyire, a caller from Kasunganyanja in Bunyangabu county Kabarole district.

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