Museveni demands accountability for presidential skilling hub SACCO funds

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The leaders of Maracha district have come under fire from President Yoweri Museveni over accountability issues regarding the Presidential Skilling Hub SACCO (Savings and Credit Co-operative Organisation) funds.

President Museveni, also the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party presidential flag-bearer for the 2026 General Election, on October 14, 2025, asked the leaders as he took his campaign trail to Maracha district.

It all started when Maracha Deputy Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Monica Koliba Kotevu was asked by the President to explain to the gathering the whereabouts of shillings 50 million seed capital the State House had sent to the district to support a recently formed SACCO for students who had graduated from the presidential skilling hub.

The concern of the President caused ululations and chants from the mammoth crowd.

The President’s challenge to the leaders came after the youths who attained skills for the Presidential Skilling Hub in Zombo district, despite appreciating the intervention, decried the lack of funds to expand their trades.

This prompted the President to task the leaders to explain the status of the presidential skilling Hub SACCO funds that were disbursed in the accounts of respective districts.

While attempting to explain the status of the funds on behalf of the district leadership amidst the booing from the public, the deputy Resident District Commissioner for Maracha, Monica Koliba Kotevu, confirmed the availability of the funds in the accounts despite not having the full details.

“Your excellence, I can confirm that we have received shillings 50 million in the district youth skilling hub SACCO account, and we are in the process of preparing the youths to receive the money. We have a total of 82 youths who have been trained in the skills hub,” said Kotevu.

Her response was met with chants of dissatisfaction by the residents, mainly the youths, who vividly booed the district leaders in the presence of the president.

This then prompted the president to direct the vice-chairperson of NRM for Northern Uganda, Denis Hamson Obua, to ascertain the whereabouts and availability of the funds meant for the presidential skilling hub SACCO for Maracha and all the districts in the region.

However, while responding to the directive, Obua, through consultation with Pearl Bank, formerly Post Bank, discovered that there is shillings 50 million wired into the accounts in the names of Maracha Presidential Hub Skilling Hub SACCO on September 21, 2025.

The crowd later calmed down when Obua called Postbank to confirm the existence of the account and 50 million disbursed into the SACCO accounts.

The President then warned corrupt officials to desist from the act or find somewhere else to run to before they are apprehended.

He also directed some of his officials to ascertain corrupt tendencies in Parish Development Model funds distribution by giving beneficiaries less than sh1m following a request by the population for his intervention.