Let IGG Send Out Fact-Finding Team
Mar 24, 2004
SIR— In your issue of March 10, you published a notice by the Inspector General of Government informing the public that a study was being carried out into the operations and management of the land sector and that any person wishing to give information should contact the IGG’s office.
SIR— In your issue of March 10, you published a notice by the Inspector General of Government informing the public that a study was being carried out into the operations and management of the land sector and that any person wishing to give information should contact the IGG’s office.
This is a welcome initiative indeed even though it is long over due.
The problem of mismanagement in the land office is quite serious and has been so for a long time.
Those of us who have at one time or another had some business to do with the land office, could not help wondering whether anybody was in charge of that office.
At the moment, I cannot go into the details of my observations as I hope to do so at a more opportune time in the near future.
One way one understands the notice from the Inspector General of Government is that the IGG is responding to numerous complaints reaching his office. But the idea of asking people to contact his office casts doubt on the usefulness of the study.
These days the talk of taking service nearer to the people is very much in the air.
Now by expecting someone from Kisoro or Kotido to contact the IGG’s office, is the IGG helping the situation/as he tires to find a solution to an almost institutionalised problem, the IGG is well advised not to focus on the problems of Kampala developers only but also of those from far-flung places.
The study in fact would be of great benefit if, instead of expecting the public to contact the inspectorate, the IGG appointed a committee to go round a few selected districts collecting views on the issue. The benefits of the idea of people travelling to Kampala to see the iGG or to write or phone cannot be compared to those of interactive talk.
T. Banyenzaki
Mbarara
This is a welcome initiative indeed even though it is long over due.
The problem of mismanagement in the land office is quite serious and has been so for a long time.
Those of us who have at one time or another had some business to do with the land office, could not help wondering whether anybody was in charge of that office.
At the moment, I cannot go into the details of my observations as I hope to do so at a more opportune time in the near future.
One way one understands the notice from the Inspector General of Government is that the IGG is responding to numerous complaints reaching his office. But the idea of asking people to contact his office casts doubt on the usefulness of the study.
These days the talk of taking service nearer to the people is very much in the air.
Now by expecting someone from Kisoro or Kotido to contact the IGG’s office, is the IGG helping the situation/as he tires to find a solution to an almost institutionalised problem, the IGG is well advised not to focus on the problems of Kampala developers only but also of those from far-flung places.
The study in fact would be of great benefit if, instead of expecting the public to contact the inspectorate, the IGG appointed a committee to go round a few selected districts collecting views on the issue. The benefits of the idea of people travelling to Kampala to see the iGG or to write or phone cannot be compared to those of interactive talk.
T. Banyenzaki
Mbarara