The new division ‘A’ offices have sparked a bitter row between the aspiring mayor Micheal Kabwama Mutebi and the incumbent Vincent Kayanja Depaul In Entebbe.
The political heads are running over each other neck into the audit query over the tax payers funds plugged into the divisional project.
The spark of the trouble stems from the six hundred million shillings (shs600M), a compensation from the Uganda National Road Authority and the supplementary from the tax payers vote amounting to over fifty million shillings.
The outgoing division chairperson Micheal Kabwama claims to have lobbied the funds from UNRA after several meetings with the concerned authourities.
“I personally engaged the focal authorities to have a reasonable compensation including disturbance fee” said Kabwama.
He added that ‘he pledged with his councilors before their term in office expires, there must be a remarkable project for the division before he walks out of office’.
In a letter copied to the Local government minister, Mayor Kayanja said that the Entebbe Municipal Council decided to develop the said land and construct a public library, resource centre and division offices on its land.
He added that the municipal council budgeted six hundred fifty million shilling (shs 650M) with a top-up of fifty million shillings (shs50M) from local revenue towards the construction of the new storied division offices which has sparked a bitter row with in the municipal authorities.
The spark of the fire has reached the epic with the six hundred million shillings (shs600M) compensation fund from UNRA that has been earmarked towards the construction of the new division offices now nearing completion.
The construction of the division offices was started earlier this year following a battle up between the Mayor Vincent Kayanja Depaul and Division ‘A’ chairman Micheal Kabwama Mutebi with each pointing fingers at each other over the development.
In a letter dated 12th July 2017, the division chairman proposed the land to be allocated to the former minister for medical facility to serve the greater population in Entebbe.(Special Report By:PEACOCK R.K)
