Simon Peter Ocen, the Gulu District Senior Finance Officer, told URN in an interview that they have only collected Shillings 560 million out of the projected Shillings 1.7 billion in local revenue.
Out of the total 31, 064,292,000 shillings, Education and Sports Department take the lion’s share of 13,401,589,000 shillings representing 43.1 percent followed by Administration Department that gets 7,293,821,000 shillings representing 23.5 percent.
Andrew Mase Onen, the district YLP Desk Focal Person, several groups have mismanaged the funds and less than 150 million shillings have been recovered from the groups in the four years adding that the district is considering tasking defaulters' parents to payback the money.
The 30 million shillings project was launched by Gulu District Local Government to green Cwero Primary School in Paicho Sub County in June. It was expected to be completed last month. Under the project flowers, trees and grasses were to be planted in an around the school to promote beautification as well as environmental conservation.
Patrick Kinyera, the Gulu district secretary for works and technical services says the roads will connect newly created sub counties with old sub counties in the northern Uganda district.
