The Parliament of Uganda this week abolished all county councils across the country. The move followed a proposal tabled by the government under the Local Governments (Amendment) bill of 2012.

Also the Minister for Local Governments, Adolf Mwesige says LC4 councils had become malfunctioned since their duties were being performed by the districts leaderships and sub county local governments.

The minister explains further that the current LC 4 county councils are poorly facilitated due to the decline in locally generated revenue at the sub counties across the country.

The minister says that out of the 169 counties in Uganda, over 111 counties were named districts and more 25 counties would be named districts in 2013. So Uganda remains with only 33 LC4 councils. This means the reason of maintaining these councils is no longer there thus the abolition of LC4 councils.

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