06, Jan, 2022
The State Minister for
Local government has today made an imprompt visit to Kagadi district to
investigate allegations about the appointment of Parish chiefs and Ward Agents
with forged academic documents in the recently concluded recruitment exercise
by Kagadi district local government Service Commission.
Hon. Victoria Rusoke
the State Minister for Local government who has been flanked by both the
commissioner of Human Resource and Commissioner of Evaluation and
Monitoring arrived at Kagadi district
headquarters at around 8am to and held a heated indoor meeting for about 6
hours of serious grill.
The meeting has been
convened in the office of the LC5 chairperson and was among attended by the
district Secretary for service commission, LC5 chairperson, RDC, DISO, Acting
Deputy CAO, District CID Officer and the district LC5 Vice chairperson.
Addressing Journalists
shortly after the heated meeting, the Minister said that their ministry a few
days back received many complaint letters by different whistleblowers citing
irregularities of forgery of academic documents and bribery that marred the
just concluded recruitment exercise of Parish chiefs and Ward Agents in Kagadi
district.
Thus upon receiving this alert they resolved to swiftly swung into action and investigate the allegations.
Minister Rusoke has
revealed that after interrogating the stakeholders, all academic documents of
the appointed 105 Parish chiefs and Ward Agents have been picked from the
District service Commission secretary and have been taken to the ministry
headquarters for verification and scrutiny.
She has promised to
publicly declare the report finding on the 20th of this month vowing
to immediately arrest and parading before court all persons found to have
submitted forged academic papers.
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