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  • Hon. Rebecca Kadaga contributes UGX 10m to develop St. Gagonza Gonza Tourism Site

    Hon. Rebecca Kadaga contributes UGX 10m to develop St. Gagonza Gonza Tourism Site

    The Chairperson Busoga Tourism Board Rt.Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga over the weekend contributed UGX 10m to Bugonza Parish in Bulamogi , Kaliro District for developing St. Gagonza Gonza Site.

    She made the contribution during the celebration of St. Gonza Gagonza in Kaliro District.

    Thousands of people from all around the country gathered in Kaliro District to celebrate St. Gonza Gagonza Day at the church parish, which is a faith-based tourism site.

    St. Gonza Gagonza was the first Musoga who was killed for his faith in accepting Christianity.

    Busoga Tourism and Heritage Minister Hon. Hellena Olga Namutumba led the tourism team on the historic occasion.

    The Minister also presented a cheque of UGX 10 million from the Chairperson of the Busoga Tourism Board, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga to the Bishop of the diocese.

    Other dignitaries in attendance included the Chairperson LC 5 of Kaliro District, Prof. Dr. Frank Nabwiiso, and Katikiiro of Bulamogi and Katikiiro of Bukono, among others.

    Hon. Hellen Olga said once the Gonza Site is fully developed, it will be a key tourist attraction for Busoga Region which will boost tourism in the region.

  • Minister Peter Ogwang takes Economic Monitoring whip to Kaliro District

    Minister Peter Ogwang takes Economic Monitoring whip to Kaliro District

    The State Minister for Economic Monitoring in the Office of the President Hon. Peter Ogwang has taken his Economic Monitoring exercise to Kaliro District.
    “Kaliro district officials learnt nothing and forgot nothing from my previous visit in October 2021. Yesterday, I decided to pay them another visit and arrested all the culprits (more than 5) who are abusing their offices and public funds,” Hon. Peter Ogwang tweeted.
    During the exercise, he found out that Kaliro District irregularly recruited parish chiefs.
    The District Service Commission produced a minute recruiting 38 parish chiefs yet only 35 positions were advertised. Relatedly, of the 38 recruited, 5 lacked minimum qualifications.
    He also established that Shs600m was allocated in FY 2019/20 and FY2021/22 for rehabilitation of Bumanya-Bulumba-Namukooge Road, but the funds were abused and diverted.
    “The Chief Finance Officer confessed to this. All construction work payments had no engineering certificates clearing their work,” the minister noted.
    In addition, Kaliro Internal Auditor was allocated a motorcycle but he gave it out to his brother to use it as boda boda.
    He found that shoddy works remain rampant; Shs284m was spent for renovation of 89 primary schools, but the output is a disaster.
    Government released Shs56m meant for training personnel on the Parish Development Model program, but the activity didn’t take place and money was swindled.