Chief Adiministartive Officer of Wakiso district at a previous ULGA meeting.

Local government leaders have been criticized for abandoning their duties upon being elected to office leaving many communities desperate and disorganized.

Tom Kyakwise, a local government expert working with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Governance, Accountability, Participation and Performance Program notes that some local Government leaders are not spearheading development and community mobilization.

Kyakwise says that some leaders do not even engage in guiding the communities on simple matters expecting the central government to intervene.

He says that in some districts, leaders are watching in abdication as the population engages in non-productive activities such as drinking alcohol very early in the morning.

Kyakwise said this while officiating at the opening of a meeting by local government leaders organized by the Uganda Local Government Association (ULGA) at hotel Africana on Wednesday.

He says that the hallmark of a leader must be the legacy they leave behind and that in Uganda it can be related to the transformation a person has led in a given community.

Kyakwise insists that leaders who have no legacy are useless and easily forgotten.