MUBENDE: Mubende District coordinators of the Office of the National Chairman (ONC) also hopeful woman Member of Parliament Mubende district, Tindimwebwa Teopista together with the Bazzukulu coordinator Ms. Namuddu Patience held an engagement meeting with the Mubende Municipality town clerk, Mr. Omoko Paul, the PDM coordinator, PDM IT officer, OWC coordinator, and all the town agents of all the 18 wards in Mubende municipality, presided over by the Deputy RDC Mubende Mr. Birungi Abubakar with his assistants.
According to Tindimwebwa, the meeting was to address the challenges in the implementation of the Parish Development Model (PDM) in Mubende Municipality and how they can be solved.
“The meeting was to address the challenges in the implementation of PDM. We have learned that most of the challenges are administrative, like no support funds, low facilitation, lack of aid gadgets, no monitoring, delay in responses, no workshops, no development partners,” Tindimwebwa told Mubende Post.
She added that; “some PDM staff are anonymous to the PDM system, hence breaching the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and limiting service delivery”.
According to the Bazzukulu coordinator Ms Patience Namuddu, they argued with the PDM chiefs not to extort money from the PDM beneficiaries as it would look like fraudsters, brokers, and selfish officials.
They say they have to prepare a report on their findings and send it to the responsible authorities for action.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Finance, each parish in Uganda has already received 207 million, where 107 million and 100 million were received in the financial years 2022/2023 and 2023/2024, respectively.
According to Mubende Municipality, a total of 3,312 million has already been disbursed to the 18 wards in the two financial years.
