FORT PORTAL MUNICIPAL COUNCILORS IMPEACH SPEAKER OVER INCOMPETENCY

By Sylvia Kugonza
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In Fort Portal

A section of councilors in Fort Portal municipality have drafted a motion to impeach the council speaker Gilbert Kayondo over incompetency.
Over 15 councilors led by Faith Nyakairu called for Kayondos resignation after it was found out that he is sidelining with the executive to give false accountability to the people.
According to the local government act rules of procedure, the office of the speaker is supposed to impartial, and its holder is not supposed to take sides with the executive.
Nyakairu said that the speakers move has affected the integrity of the office of speakership and that Kayondo has lost the moral integrity of being a Speaker.
Councillors also condemned what they called wasteful expenditure by the municipal council and asked the inspector general of government to investigate some officials.
However on a phone call, Kayondo denied all the allegations against him and said that he had not committed any crime for him to leave the office.
Fort Portal municipality council has of recent been engulfed in a lot of controversies which have left some of the officials interdicted over corruption.
Recently, the physical planner Fort Portal Municipal Council, Olivia Bahwayo Busobozi, was interdicted over 10 million bribery scandal.
According to the interdiction letter written by the Town Clerk Fort Portal Municipal Council, Godfrey Bamanyisa, it is alleged that Busobozi solicited a bribe of 10 million shillings from Don Uganda Limited so that she approves the physical plans for the construction of a fuel station along Tibeyalirwa Road in Fort Portal municipality.

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