By Samuel
E-Society-Kasese
Yesterday Monday 5th Jan 2015,
the District Chairperson Lt.Col (Rtd) Dula Mawa Muhindo started the year 2015
with a service delivery monitoring drive in local communities. This drive is
being done by visiting different sub counties and holding community leadership
meeting at sub county level. In a meeting that was organized by the LC III
chairperson where the District Chairperson was the chief guest and was accompanied
by the Sec. Administration, works and finance Hon. Mathew Bwambale together with
the Ass. Dist. Engineer in charge of Roads Mr. Rujumba David
The meeting was held at Karambi S/C
headquarters. It comprised of community leaders like LC I Chairpersons, Parish
chiefs, District councilors, civil society organization leaders, business men,
security officers, civil servants religious leaders and community elders from
all over the sub county.
The LCIII chairperson Mr. Balitebya Martin
welcomed the members present; he recognized what the District chairperson had
done by officially visiting the leaders of Karambi Sub County. He thanked the LCV
Chair for being a unique leader
Mr. Martin named projects being carried
out as; teacher’s staff quarters in some schools, road constructions from
Karambi to kyabayenzi, construction of 2 modern class room blocks at Mirami
primary school and many other projects that are being done.
He recognized funds being released from
central government and were being used for; Bikunya market VIP latrine, Karambi
sub county new market, kisolholho new market, rehabilitation of Karambi health
centre (above 7M) for electricity connection at Karambi health centre III, opening
of community access roads like, Karambi TC-karukumiza road, bukinya-karambi
road and a few more. There is also still few funds to extend the road to down
mirami and put maram soil,
There are projected activities like
electricity connection to headquarters building, construction of VIP latrine
and rehabilitation of Karambi market,
there is a program of opening a cattle holding market in the sub county in
order to cub market in congo. He called upon the political leaders to be disciplined
as they do their politics since 2015 is a year of political struggles. He cautioned
them not to talk to people what they can’t explain and not to over promise
people
It was observed that most educated people
are the ones who oppose most of the community service acts. They tend to be big
headed and demoralizing to the community members.
The District Chairperson raised a number
of issues among of which were; the issue of uncompleted roads works which were
pending since 2013. We had moved along with the District Engineer in charge of
roads who had to answer to the members why the roads were incomplete. He also
promised that the roads which had worn out were to be worked on in the coming
financial years. LCIII was tasked to answer
why some roads were being neglected and miss used by the locals especially by
dumping wastes in them, he claimed that he had to have told the LCI chairmen to
mobilize people to do community service and it wasn’t done.
All LCI chairpersons, religious leaders
and cultural elders were tasked to sensitize their local people on issues of
education, sanitation, discipline children and the youth, fight against
domestic violence and clean roads so as to improve the livelihood of the
people.
The chairman also told them that the
government had done a lot for the sub county like opening community access
roads, constructing schools, extending electricity and constructing a health Centre
II. Therefore, it’s now the role of the people to utilize these resources to
improve their livelihood.
The members present had enough time to
interact with the chairman, they presented their concerns and challenges some
of which were to upgrade Karambi Health Centre II to IV and also stop
transferring and giving study leaves to health workers since those were the
biggest challenges of the health Centre
Now the CLV chair then led the whole team
for a projects inspection in the sub county. Among the projects that were inspected
were; the uncompleted road, the misused road, the newly constructed bridge
The people of Karambi showed great
appreciation towards the chairperson’s follow up visit and the good spirit of
cooperation which he is showing especially uniting leaders who are of different
political parties to one working team for service delivery and promised to work
with him much better.
