Makindye councillors halt Kalungi plan
Apr 06, 2009
Makindye Division councillors have opposed their chairman Moses Kalungi’s plan to buy a tractor at sh500m. The councillors passed a resolution halting further transactions on the purchase of the tractor during a retreat at Hotel Brovad in Masaka Municip
By Dismus Buregyeya
Makindye Division councillors have opposed their chairman Moses Kalungi’s plan to buy a tractor at sh500m. The councillors passed a resolution halting further transactions on the purchase of the tractor during a retreat at Hotel Brovad in Masaka Municipality on Saturday.
However, the division’s assistant principal town clerk, Dan Mujukizi, said adverts for interested firms to provide the tractor had already been run.
“I have to seek for more advice because the contracts committee has already cleared the procurement of the tractor,†Majukizi said.
Some of the councillors led by Richard Kalibala disowned the minutes supporting the purchase.
Kalibala said they had advised that the tractor is bought using funds from the headquarters.
Kalungi told The New Vision after the retreat that he was surprised that the councillors were frustrating a plan to buy a tractor for rehabilitating roads in the division.
“I know that they halted the purchase of the tractor because of the anger for failing to censure me. “They did not have evidence to prove that I was incompetent,†Kalungi said.
The speaker, Joe Nakibinge, said the councillors retreated to Masaka because unrowdy youths had disrupted the previous meeting in Kampala.
An expert, Yusuf Ssenteza, warned the councillors against passing unlawful censure resolutions because they would be held individually liable for the court costs and damages.
Makindye Division councillors have opposed their chairman Moses Kalungi’s plan to buy a tractor at sh500m. The councillors passed a resolution halting further transactions on the purchase of the tractor during a retreat at Hotel Brovad in Masaka Municipality on Saturday.
However, the division’s assistant principal town clerk, Dan Mujukizi, said adverts for interested firms to provide the tractor had already been run.
“I have to seek for more advice because the contracts committee has already cleared the procurement of the tractor,†Majukizi said.
Some of the councillors led by Richard Kalibala disowned the minutes supporting the purchase.
Kalibala said they had advised that the tractor is bought using funds from the headquarters.
Kalungi told The New Vision after the retreat that he was surprised that the councillors were frustrating a plan to buy a tractor for rehabilitating roads in the division.
“I know that they halted the purchase of the tractor because of the anger for failing to censure me. “They did not have evidence to prove that I was incompetent,†Kalungi said.
The speaker, Joe Nakibinge, said the councillors retreated to Masaka because unrowdy youths had disrupted the previous meeting in Kampala.
An expert, Yusuf Ssenteza, warned the councillors against passing unlawful censure resolutions because they would be held individually liable for the court costs and damages.