Rakai bosses rap AIDS project
RAKAI resident district commissioner Allen Mary Kemerwa and the LC5 chairman, Vincent Semakula, have criticised the Community HIV/Aids Initiative (CHAI), saying people have not gained from it.
By Ali Mambule
RAKAI resident district commissioner Allen Mary Kemerwa and the LC5 chairman, Vincent Semakula, have criticised the Community HIV/Aids Initiative (CHAI), saying people have not gained from it.
Semakula said during an interview recently that over sh600m had been released but only a few individuals, who were not the targeted beneficiaries, had gained from the funds. Semakaula said it was absurd to find a small number of people misusing the money without being reprimanded by the officials concerned.
This followed Kasambya Mitukula, a women’s group’s failure to account for over sh7m.
Kemerwa ordered that the group’s chairperson and treasurer be arrested.
Semakula said he had never seen a student benefiting from Chai money in terms of school fees, adding that those paid for were children of the group’s leadership.
He said it would be better if the government paid school fees for orphans in secondary schools instead of dishing out such huge sums of money to benefit the well-to-do.
Semakula said, “That sh600m would be enough to educate all the orphans in Rakai in secondary schools for four years.â€
He attacked the district Chai focal person, Dr. Oketch, for not apprehending those misusing the money.
RAKAI resident district commissioner Allen Mary Kemerwa and the LC5 chairman, Vincent Semakula, have criticised the Community HIV/Aids Initiative (CHAI), saying people have not gained from it.
Semakula said during an interview recently that over sh600m had been released but only a few individuals, who were not the targeted beneficiaries, had gained from the funds. Semakaula said it was absurd to find a small number of people misusing the money without being reprimanded by the officials concerned.
This followed Kasambya Mitukula, a women’s group’s failure to account for over sh7m.
Kemerwa ordered that the group’s chairperson and treasurer be arrested.
Semakula said he had never seen a student benefiting from Chai money in terms of school fees, adding that those paid for were children of the group’s leadership.
He said it would be better if the government paid school fees for orphans in secondary schools instead of dishing out such huge sums of money to benefit the well-to-do.
Semakula said, “That sh600m would be enough to educate all the orphans in Rakai in secondary schools for four years.â€
He attacked the district Chai focal person, Dr. Oketch, for not apprehending those misusing the money.