Members of Parliament cry for more counties’ creation as they meet the Minister local government over the criteria used by government to propose new counties. MPs claim that many big constituencies were not divided for new counties yet small constituencies were curved out of new ones.

MPs comprising of Bugangaizi East MP Marbal Bakeine, Ignatius Besisira, Natumba district woman MP Florence Mutyabule and Busongola south MP Boaz Kafuda, said that the Minister of local government should be prepared to add more new counties on the proposed 39 counties so as all people benefit from taking service near them.

The Minister was appearing before the parliamentary committee on Public service and local government, explaining the criteria used to propose some new counties. The Minister of local government Adolf Mwesige said that many counties were left out because the district councils did not approve them as the law requires. He told MPs that there are no more counties when the district councils have not approved them for him to demand it from government.

Mwesige also noted that   some new counties were considered for reasons of calming down conflicts in communities of particular areas.

In a related development the chairperson of the Electoral commission Dr. Badru Kiggundu   said that the money is available for conducting elections for Members of Parliament in the counties if there are no new sub counties, villages and parishes.