{"id":45297,"date":"2023-02-23T11:45:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T11:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/service-delivery-locals-caution-govt-on-reports-by-civil-servants"},"modified":"2023-02-23T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T12:19:41","slug":"service-delivery-locals-caution-govt-on-reports-by-civil-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/service-delivery-locals-caution-govt-on-reports-by-civil-servants","title":{"rendered":"Service delivery: Locals caution govt on reports by civil servants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Residents of Rukungiri District have asked the central government to always investigate reports made by civil servants on service delivery.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a community-based baraza (meeting) organised by the Office of the Prime Minister at Rukungiri Municipal Stadium on Tuesday, the locals also asked the government to always involve them rather than relying on the reports submitted by the civil servants.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn engagement like this one should have gone deep in communities, to the grassroot because it is people there who fail to get drugs at health centres, can\u2019t access services like water and education, among other government programmes,\u201d Mr Gadson Mutabazi, the chairperson of Rwakabengo B cell in Southern Division, Rukungiri Municipality, said.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cYou will never get honest feedback if you involve only a few leaders and civil servants in accessing the challenges people at the grassroots face.\u201d<\/p>\n

The residents, who included village chairpersons and local councillors, accused civil servants of making false reports on service delivery.<\/p>\n

Mr Mutabazi said engagements with leaders only without involving the locals will always fall short of facts.<\/p>\n

Mr Gideon Turyamubugana, the municipal councillor for Kanyanya Ward, said the locals are the ones directly affected by service delivery and need to be actively involved in the meetings for effective reporting on service delivery.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a leader, I only go [to the grassroots] such as health centres once in a while to monitor service delivery but the local person involved is the one directly affected. They are the ones who feel the effect of lack of drugs at health facilities, poor roads, lack of education facilities, so they need active participation in these barazas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Micheal Byarugaba, the Western Division district councillor, said the government needs to take the Parish Development Model (PDM) approach to ensure effective service delivery and accountability.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it [government] is going for mass immunisation, they [health workers] go house-to-house. I think the same method should be used on issues of assessing service delivery at the grassroots,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The State Minister for Bunyoro Affairs, Ms Jennifer Namuyangu, warned civil servants who operate as \u201cdesk officers\u201d and do not go to the field to help transform the communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t sit in offices and make reports. You are employed to go and transform Ugandans,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Rukungiri Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Mr Stephen Nsubuga Bewayo, acknowledged that community forums should be more inclusive of the grassroots people than leaders and civil servants.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also agree with the local leaders\u2019 observations because the person at the grassroot is the one who takes that dirty water, can\u2019t access a health facility, and can\u2019t have market for his produce,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He, however, explained that the reason they didn\u2019t have many community members at that particular engagement was because it had been organised following the standard operating procedures for the prevention of the spread of Covid-19, thus a scientific one. He pledged to have more locals attend future engagements.<\/p>\n

Ms Sharifa Nakintu, the Rukungiri Municipality town clerk, said they have been carrying out community engagements but many locals are reluctant to embrace them.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven when you take these engagements to divisions, these community members don\u2019t want to come, I think there is a challenge of mind-set, which we also need to work on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

At the meeting, several concerns were raised, including limited funding across all sectors, lack of water and pit-latrines in schools, delayed implementation of PDM activities, among others.<\/p>\n

Minister Namuyangu promised to forward each of the challenges to relevant ministries for action.<\/p>\n

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