Some Members of Parliament, civil society, and development experts doubt that the Parish development model will be different from similar interventions like Entandikwa, and NAADS.
More than 60 agencies, commissions or authorities were to be disbanded, merged with others or returned to ministries as departments. Now Public Service Minister Wilson Muruli Mukasa says the process requires amendments in legislation. “Most of these agencies are created by acts of parliament and you cannot just abolish them,” he says.
Deputy Speaker Oulanyah appealed to legislators to skip debate on the NDP III, approve it and concentrate on debating the election-year budget later in the afternoon.
Dr. Sallie Simba Kayunga, a member of National Governing Council of the African Union Peer Review Mechanism says streamlining the governance atmosphere in the country should begin with putting a stop in the creation of new local governments and a reduction in the large size of parliament and the Executive.
