Ayimbishibwe while speaking at the meeting where local government accounts committee members of parliament was interfacing with CAOs and district finance officers at parliament blamed MPs for always ‘roasting’ them before accountability committees in presence of the media and labeling most of them thieves yet when they do good things are not reorganized.

The Assistant Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of Kabarole district receives a certificate of attendance…CAOs want MPs to reward them for their work.

In this vain he suggested that each MP should contribute 10 % of his or her allowance for the reward of the best accounting officers ward of the best accounting officers as a way of appreciating them for the good work and encouraging others accounting officers to perform to the standard.
He says that he has done a good job as accounting officer and he is about to retire but has never been appreciated.

The Member of Parliament for Kazo County in Kiruhura district Gordon Bafaki says that mps receive little allowances which cannot cater for contributing to paying for rewards.

The Ministry of fisheries has been asked to invest in fighting illegal fishing methods instead of bringing new breeds of fish species as proposed

The comment followed a proposal by the ministry of Fisheries to bring new fish types to help on increasing number of fish in the lake.

Carol Nanyondo the Member of Parliament for Kyamuswa county in Kalangala Islands said that the this  method  won’t work, if fishing methods are not tackled.

She said that breading areas needs to be safe guarded as well as increasing operations on illegal fishing gears.

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Winnie Kizza the Woman MP for Kasese and also the Leader of Opposition in Parliament of Uganda and outgoing chairperson accounts committee of parliament.

Speaking to Journalists at Parliament during the handover ceremony for the parliamentary committee on local government accounts, the Opposition’s Chief whip Winfred Kiiza, said that they had observed that change of leadership of this committee every after two years affects the tracking of accountabilities.

Kiiza handed over the office to the new bearer Reagan Okumu.

She said this in particular happens in government ministries where officials are often transferred and this makes it troublesome tracking them if the accounts committee leaves office within a short time.

She also said that redeployment of accounting officers like Chief Finance Officers (CFOS) and Chief Administrative Officers to other district before accounting for expenditure of the period of their operation is wrong because it is not easy to trace these officials to account for the funds for the previous districts.

Okumu, while receiving the new office said that his committee will stick to the Auditor General (AG) reports over the accountability of the district funds as a way of disposing off of the many pending reports to reduce the current backlog caused because of the many administrative units like districts, municipalities,sub counties and municipal councils.

He urged the whistle blowers to utilize the local government accounts committee to report contracts and donor funds what is perceived not accounted for.

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