Summary:
- Bakak who is planning to conduct an oversight visit to monitor PDM progress in Kahungye Sub County, Ndorwa West County in Kabale District tomorrow (Monday), says that saboteurs must either refund the money or resign.
KABALE: The Kabale Deputy Resident District Commissioner, Ronald Andrew Bakak, has asked PDM Saboteurs to either refund the funds extorted from beneficiaries or resign from their positions in Kabale.
Bakak emphasized that despite extensive discussions about the correct procedures for implementing the PDM program, many Parish chiefs and some PDM SACCO leaders have failed to comply. He stated that arresting the saboteurs is the only remaining option.
Bakak, who is planning to conduct an oversight visit to monitor PDM progress in Kahungye Sub County, Ndorwa West County in Kabale District tomorrow (Monday), says that saboteurs must either refund the money or resign. He noted that the two-week deadline he previously set for the saboteurs to return the funds has now passed.
According to him, he only wants to see the receipts and confirm whether the money was recovered. He said that the money must benefit the intended beneficiaries.
CUE IN DRDC BAKAK….ON PDM SABOTEURS……..LUG//
On Thursday, several officials were arrested on Bakak’s orders for misappropriating and extorting PDM funds in Kabale District. The arrested individuals include Herbert Mubangizi, the Parish Chief of Kisibo Parish in Kibuga Sub-county, and Kakuru Maxison, Daniel Byamukama, John Bosco Rugambwa, Samuel Akanyijuka, Derick Niwagaba, Fred Mubangizi, and Loyce Ahimbisibwe, the Chairperson of Karubanda Ward SACCO in Southern Division of Kabale Municipality.
The PDM program was established by the government to improve the living standards of the 39% of Ugandans still engaged in subsistence agriculture.
