The Forum for Democratic Change (Fdc) has expressed dissatisfaction over the President’s appointment of new Assistant Resident District Commissioners in different parts of the country which the party says was unnecessary.
This comes at a time when the President appointed 357 new Assistant RDCs to add to the existing RDCs and their Deputies in serving the country.
During its weekly press briefing at the party headquarters in Najjanankumbi, the Deputy party spokesperson Walid Lubega Mulindwa noted that the appointment of 357 Assistant Resident District Commissioners (RDCs) in public service rubs salt into the wound as the new burden to the tax payer and openly balloons the wage bill by Shs3 billion each year .
He added that the country is already struggling with different challenges such as the high levels of youth unemployment, poverty that chains many people across the country, corruption as well as a sick health care system that condemns the poor to pain and death as this needs a lot of money than to spend it on paying Assistant RDCs.
The party as well expressed concern over the process that the parliament follows to rationalise agencies to save the tax payer from the burden. Mulindwa called for transparency in the rationalisation process by ensuring that a critical review of each agency ,commission and Authority should be made against the criteria stated in the report of the Ahoc committee of Parliament where by those bodies that merit retention as stand – alone units should continue to operate as they are currently doing. “Those that fail the criteria shouldn’t have been merged with the line Ministries.”He added
Fdc further expresses concern over the grant that government offers to entrepreneurs which the party say does not benefit Ugandans. “Mulindwa stressed that as Ugandans wallow in hard biting poverty coupled with an oppressive tax regime, money collected from the down trodden is being splashed to these political entrepreneurs who enjoy the suffering of Ugandans.
