Resident District Commissioners (RDCs) and their deputies are set to receive brand new cars in the forthcoming financial year.
There might be talks of the government borrowing to pay salaries but it will not be too difficult for the government to find billions of shillings for new cars for Resident District Commissioners (RDCs).
The government plans to dole out new rides for the president’s representatives at the newly created district across the country. It is estimated that UGX18 billion will be needed to cover the more than six districts that started operations in July last year.
According to a May 2017 report from Presidential Affairs Committee, presented to Parliament last week, the proposed budgetary allocation to Office of the President reflects a 2.8% increment from UGX52.8bn in FY 2016/17 to UGX54.9bn in FY 2017/18.
In a report that was presented to Parliament by Presidential Affairs Committee chairperson Fred Mwesigye, the Office of the President requested for another UGX5.6bn in the FY2017/18 to enable appointment and facilitation of 10 RDCs.
The RDCs were to fill the newly created districts of Kagadi, Kakumiro, Omoro and Rubanda and other districts of Namisindwa, Pakwach, Butebo, Rukiga, Kyotera and Bunyangabo that came into operation in this financial year.
However, it should be noted that according to a recent Report of Parliament’s Budget Committee on the National Budget Framework Paper for 2018/19-2022/23, inadequate facilitation for RDCs has resulted into poor service delivery.
The committee observed that facilitation to conduct effective monitoring of Government programs is underfunded to the tune of UGX5.308 bn.
“Members noted that inadequate facilitation for RDC’s to monitor government programs leads to poor service delivery and poor implementation of Government programs,
