The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah has criticized government for overloading parliament with local government audit reports which he says frustrates House business.<\/p>\n
Oluanyah\u2019s criticism during a parliamentary session\u00a0on Thuursday evening follows an outcry by Aswa County MP, Reagan Okumu who chairs parliament\u2019s committee on Local Government Accounts.<\/p>\n
Okumu says he is overwhelmed by Audit reports from two financial years; 2013-2014 and 2014-2015, which he is supposed to present to parliament and have them debated and passed in only six months.<\/p>\n
The reports include 1,086 Sub Counties, 176 Town Councils as well as all the 44 Municipalities and 112 districts including all public hospitals and schools.<\/p>\n
Oulanyah says\u00a0this is too much work for parliament to handle and asks government to find another avenue of handling the reports from lower local government units.<\/p>\n
Parliament\u2019s Local Government Accounts Committee is reported to be\u00a0grappling with\u00a0a cumulative backlog of audit reports.<\/p>\n
Story By Moses Kyeyune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah has criticized government for overloading parliament with local government audit reports which he says frustrates House business. Oluanyah\u2019s criticism during a parliamentary session\u00a0on Thuursday evening follows an outcry by Aswa County MP, Reagan Okumu who chairs parliament\u2019s committee on Local Government Accounts. Okumu says he is overwhelmed by Audit reports from two financial years; 2013-2014 and 2014-2015, which he is supposed to present to parliament and have them debated and passed in only six months. The reports include 1,086 Sub Counties, 176 Town Councils as well as all the 44 Municipalities and 112 districts including all public hospitals and schools. Oulanyah says\u00a0this is too much work for parliament to handle and asks government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}