The practice of using children as family labor during school terms is especially common in government primary schools, which are tuition-free under Ministry of Education guidelines.
Mary Oywa Apoto, the LCV councillor representing older persons in Gulu district council, says that officials who carried out registration during the mass registration for National IDs assigned wrong ages to older persons, which has inadvertently made them miss out on social protection funds.
While addressing a full council meeting held on Thursday, Ayoo noted that the ordinance has failed to address issues of increased domestic violence and low productivity among the population, as intended by the 10th council which came up with the law.
Christopher Opiyo Atekere, the District Chairperson revealed to URN that all the 12 departments of the districts that includes Council, Audit, Natural Resources have not got any financial allocations for operations as yet due to unavailability of funds.
Christine Gloria, the Gulu District Information Officer told URN that the works were halted following a directive by President, Yoweri Museveni banning all forms of gatherings.
