By Stephen Ojacor
In a bead to better the delivery of services, the Serere district local government in Teso Sub- Region has embarked on capacity building of civil servant and stakeholders to ensure value for government money.
The leaders reveal that in most cases, government looses Billions of shilling due to inadequate capacity of leaders in handling their jobs, and delivering accountable service.
According to Mr. Robert Adyama Ekaju the Resident District Commissioner Serere, civil servants are either wasting or abusing resources and costing the government loses.
“this capacity building training Is aimed at helping local leaders to create solutions that are effective in the short term and sustainable over time, This can lead to a more effective government that is able to address the needs of its stakeholders” Adyama mentioned.
Government in the 2023/2024 financial year lost up to shs. 9 trillion to corruption through embezzling and miss management of tax payers money, such linkages according to Mr. Stephen Ochola the Serere district Chairman, can be curbed down by building the enhancing the ability of the implementers at the local government level right from the grassroots.
“Some of the challenges we face in Serere is laziness amongst the technical people, hence failure in service delivery, Corruption especially during the Parish Development Model implementation by the handlers and conflicts”, Ochola mentioned.
The district boss is optimistic that such trainings will change the attitude of the officials and permanently close the linkages in service delivery.
Mr. Geoffrey Okaka the Chief administrative officer Serere said that the district currently carries the population of 400,000 people, however they still records some cases corruption hence a distracter to service delivery, right from the roads, health, education and security.
Dr. Joseph Opul the training expert, Executive Director Quality Education Consultancy Ltd amplified the demand to continue training the local government stakeholders in order to enhance their capacity towards delivering.
“Capacity building can help governments understand the needs of vulnerable and underserved groups. This can lead to a more effective government that is able to address the needs it’s stakeholders” Opul said.