Graft row rocks Kawempe
May 05, 2004
THE chairperson of Kawempe division, Nasser Takuba, has said he will resign if council finds him guilty of corruption.
By Mariam Nalunkuuma
THE chairperson of Kawempe division, Nasser Takuba, has said he will resign if council finds him guilty of corruption.
Takuba said this in a council meeting at the division headquarters on Friday.
However, division speaker Livingstone Kimera declined, saying, “We cannot discuss the petition to censure the LC3 chairman because the local government ministry has already intervened. We are awaiting a response from the district speaker.â€
This follows the suspension of a City Community Challenge (C3) project in the division over alleged corruption in the disbursement of funds.
Recently, Kawempe councillors accused Takuba (right) of favouring multipartyists in the disbursement of funds.
“We have suspended providing funds to community projects because we have received complaints from some area councillors that there has been mismanagement of these funds,†the C3 national co-ordinator, Raphael Magyezi, said in a letter to Takuba, recently.
C3 has been distributing sh500m on a quarterly basis to individuals and micro-enterprises in Kawempe, Kampala and Mpumudde division in Jinja for about three years.
“We shall be ready to resume the support once we get clearance from your councillors and after an independent audit of all the funds so far disbursed to your division has been carried out,†Magyezi said.
THE chairperson of Kawempe division, Nasser Takuba, has said he will resign if council finds him guilty of corruption.
Takuba said this in a council meeting at the division headquarters on Friday.
However, division speaker Livingstone Kimera declined, saying, “We cannot discuss the petition to censure the LC3 chairman because the local government ministry has already intervened. We are awaiting a response from the district speaker.â€
This follows the suspension of a City Community Challenge (C3) project in the division over alleged corruption in the disbursement of funds.
Recently, Kawempe councillors accused Takuba (right) of favouring multipartyists in the disbursement of funds.
“We have suspended providing funds to community projects because we have received complaints from some area councillors that there has been mismanagement of these funds,†the C3 national co-ordinator, Raphael Magyezi, said in a letter to Takuba, recently.
C3 has been distributing sh500m on a quarterly basis to individuals and micro-enterprises in Kawempe, Kampala and Mpumudde division in Jinja for about three years.
“We shall be ready to resume the support once we get clearance from your councillors and after an independent audit of all the funds so far disbursed to your division has been carried out,†Magyezi said.