The Permanent Secretary office of the President, Hajji Yunus Kakande has encouraged Resident District/City Commissioners (RDC/RCCs and deputies to be the vanguard of unity in their respect Districts.
This he said at the opening of a capacity building training attended by RDCs/RCCs/Deputy RDC/RCCs, DISOs, and RISOs from Bukedi, sebei, and Elgon sub-regions at Wash and wills hotel in Mbale.
The capacity building training is aimed at equipping the officers with skills in fulfilling their mandate of oversight, supervision, and monitoring to ensure efficient and effective service delivery.
The workshop also aims at sharing challenges and finding solutions to challenges during the course of their work.
Hajji Kakande urged the RDCSs and DISOs to step up efforts in monitoring government programs to ensure service delivery and also to sensitize and popularise them among the wanaichi.
He tasked the Stakeholders in their respective offices to ensure that government programs namely PDM, Emyooga, Youth Livelihood Project, Uganda Women Empowerment Project funds, etc are a success in their respective districts to reduce the poverty among communities in their areas which will lead to peace since an impoverished community is a source of instability.
He further urged the RDCs and DISOs to ensure that ethnic communities in their respective districts live in harmony instead of leaders promoting disunity in the districts. He tasked them to focus on the social economic transformation of communities for development.
He singled out some districts like Butaleja, Tororo, Pallisa, Bulambuli and Budaka where tribal differences are common and urged the Leaders to play a pivotal role in uniting the people.
To ensure sustainable environmental management, Hajj Yunus Kakande tasked his subordinates the RDCS and DISOs to sensitize the communities on environmental degradation and avoid wetland encroachment by communities, he directed them to work with government agencies in implementing the presidential directives on wetlands.
To address some of the challenges of RDCs regarding transport the Secretary committed that more new cars will be procured before the end of the financial year for RDCs who didn’t get vehicles.
