Local
citizens from Hakibaale Sub County, Kabarole District have appealed to their
leaders to effectively lobby and plan for improved service delivery to enable
the electorates gain from their leadership, “my MP should have lobbied for
better roads, effective health service delivery, better performance of the
education sector for instance in Kahangi, our schools are performing poorly
because our MPs are busy passing useless laws like the Public Order &
Management Bill. Our MPs are also spending our tax payers money taking drinks
and having good meals in Kyankwazi.” Said Mwanguhya Kenneth while appearing on
the listener’s forum on 4th January, 2014 at Better FM.
further adds that, “the only good thing is that the local citizens are now more
aware of their rights and hence prepared not to elect them back to parliament
in the next elections (2016 Uganda General electons).
listeners forum which is broadcast every Sunday (08:00 – 10:00pm) on better FM
and supported by ToroDev was discussing a topic titled, “Have leaders especially
MPs fulfilled their responsibilities.”
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Moses also from Hakibaale Sub County Committed citizens for better service
delivery who was also a panelist on the live radio talkshow also decried the
poor performance of leaders especially Members of Parliament, “the primary
responsibility of MPs is to legislate and oversight. However, our MPs haven’t performed
to their expectations because there is a lot absenteeism for instance on
average we always never have more than 100 MPs in every session out of the over
300, even recently the Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah said that the 9th
parliament haven’t performed to their expectations,” Said Moses.
participated in the live radio discussions through call-ins, SMS and online for
instance Byamukama from Kabende Parish wanted information on the progress of
the national Identity cards. John from Hakibaale Sub County called-in and
indicated that they are waiting for elections to show their dissatisfaction to
non performing leaders. Natukunda from Burahya County called-in and said that
Kagwera (MP Burahya County, Kabarole District) has done a good job in lobby for
better roads. Atugonza from Bufunjo Sub County, Kyenjojo district requested for
their MP to also come and give accountability to the electorates.
