The budget running KCCA now was not debated by the appropriate organ called the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) which was supposed to make what they call a budget break down according to priority areas of the city.
The figures that came from the central government as conditional grants were instead broken down by the Executive Director unilaterally hence set the wrong priorities. As a result of the public outcry more so the bad state of the roads in the city, the Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago decided to convene a special KCCA meeting-purely to revisit and realign those priority areas in order to address the current situation in the city.
According to the KCCA act, the budget has to be presented to the authority for final approval which the Executive Director Jenifer Musisi Semakula did not do. So Tuesday’s KCCA meeting that flopped had been called to address the above issue. Musisi realizing that her office was going to be questioned over the expenditures currently goingon that were not approved by the authority, she decided to frustrate the meeting by influencing councilors not to attend citing unfounded grounds that the meeting had not been legally convened.
The notice was issued to all councilors on 11th Jan calling for a special authority meeting on 17th and that was an adequate notice for a special meeting. Ms Musisi wants to continue spending money without accountability queries, this is the reason she is using the councilors to boycott meetings called by Lukwago. To be continued!
By Kampala Lord Mayor, Suleiman Kidandala