African Union to adopt decentralisation system
Mar 21, 2004
THE Minister of Local Government, Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere, has said ministers from the African Union will meet to discuss the decentralisation system, with a view of adopting it.
By Grace Matsiko
THE Minister of Local Government, Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere, has said ministers from the African Union will meet to discuss the decentralisation system, with a view of adopting it.
Addressing journalists about the recent first Eastern Africa Local Government Ministers’ conference on decentralisation and local development in Mombasa, Kabwegyere said the ministers agreed that the decentralisation system of governance should be adopted by others countries that had not yet introduced it.
Kabwegyere said a 20-man delegation from Zimbabwe and Ghana was expected in the country to study the decentralisation process.
He said at the end of this month, 23 local government ministers from East, Central and Southern Africa would convene in Arusha, Tanzania, to deliberate on a number of issues
Kabwegyere said it was agreed that the Government should develop enough capacity to detect financial wastage in the local authorities and means to punish the corrupt officials.
He called upon Ugandans to rise up against corrupt district officials.
He said disbursements from the Central Government to districts had risen from sh37b to sh800b, which required protection from corrupt local officials.
“I think the war is on and it must be won. It requires a vigilant population which does not wait for the Central Government to go to districts,†he said. He added, “If a goat can be tendered for sh800,000 or a pig for sh200,000, the public must come up and to challenge it.â€
Kabwegyere assured the local leaders that he was not against the decentralisation process like most district speakers claimed.
“I and the local government ministry are committed to decentralisation and will do whatever it takes to promote it throughout the country,†he said.
THE Minister of Local Government, Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere, has said ministers from the African Union will meet to discuss the decentralisation system, with a view of adopting it.
Addressing journalists about the recent first Eastern Africa Local Government Ministers’ conference on decentralisation and local development in Mombasa, Kabwegyere said the ministers agreed that the decentralisation system of governance should be adopted by others countries that had not yet introduced it.
Kabwegyere said a 20-man delegation from Zimbabwe and Ghana was expected in the country to study the decentralisation process.
He said at the end of this month, 23 local government ministers from East, Central and Southern Africa would convene in Arusha, Tanzania, to deliberate on a number of issues
Kabwegyere said it was agreed that the Government should develop enough capacity to detect financial wastage in the local authorities and means to punish the corrupt officials.
He called upon Ugandans to rise up against corrupt district officials.
He said disbursements from the Central Government to districts had risen from sh37b to sh800b, which required protection from corrupt local officials.
“I think the war is on and it must be won. It requires a vigilant population which does not wait for the Central Government to go to districts,†he said. He added, “If a goat can be tendered for sh800,000 or a pig for sh200,000, the public must come up and to challenge it.â€
Kabwegyere assured the local leaders that he was not against the decentralisation process like most district speakers claimed.
“I and the local government ministry are committed to decentralisation and will do whatever it takes to promote it throughout the country,†he said.