{"id":62171,"date":"2023-01-20T12:31:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T09:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=62171"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:31:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T09:31:22","slug":"parliament-defends-speakers-remarks-on-cosase-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/parliament-defends-speakers-remarks-on-cosase-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament defends Speaker&#8217;s remarks on COSASE performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Mike Sebalu\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parliament has defended Speaker Anita Among&#8217;s directives to audit the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities, and State Enterprises (COSASE) over alleged poor performance in executing its duties.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the Speaker ordered for a value-for-money audit on COSASE following what she termed &#8220;a failure&#8221; by the committee to produce timely reports.<\/p>\n<p>However, COSASE chairperson, Joel Ssenyoyi responded by blaming the leadership of parliament which allegedly dismissed the output of a historically vibrant committee.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement on the performance of the accountability committees from the Director Communications and Public Affairs, Chris Obore, the Speaker&#8217;s concerns about the performance of the committee arise from a comparative analysis of the performance of the public accounts committees of parliament since May 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Committee on Public Accounts (Local Government) has since May 2021 to date produced 87 reports; the Committee on Public Accounts (Central Government) has produced over 35 reports; and COSASE has produced five (5) reports,&#8221; Obore sai in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Speaker&#8217;s investigation on the performance of COSASE arises from concerns about the disparity of the performance of the Public Accounts Committees of Parliament,\u201c he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike Sebalu\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Parliament has defended Speaker Anita Among&#8217;s directives to audit the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities, and State Enterprises (COSASE) over alleged poor performance in executing its duties. This week, the Speaker ordered for a value-for-money audit on COSASE following what she termed &#8220;a failure&#8221; by the committee to produce timely reports. However, COSASE chairperson, Joel Ssenyoyi responded by blaming the leadership of parliament which allegedly dismissed the output of a historically vibrant committee. According to a statement on the performance of the accountability committees from the Director Communications and Public Affairs, Chris Obore, the Speaker&#8217;s concerns about the performance of the committee arise from a comparative analysis of the performance of the public accounts committees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":62172,"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":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"F j, Y g:i a","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"3","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[368,1283,1274,234],"class_list":["post-62171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anita-among","tag-cosase","tag-joel-ssenyonyi","tag-uganda-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62171"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}