Otim says the generator hasn’t been in use at the market because of its high fuel consumption rate. According to Otim, the generator uses about 40 liters of diesel fuel per hour, which is too expensive for the city council.
Fidel Wabinyai Raja, a data scientist at AirQo Project told Uganda Radio Network Tuesday that the devices will help in relaying real-time data on air quality in the city.
In the past week, pockets of vendors mainly selling second-hand clothes, shoes, fruits, jerry cans, and plastic bottles have started reappearing on the streets.
The rift comes a week after the City authorities accompanied by security personnel stopped leaders in Bardege Division from allocating space to accommodate vendors that were last month evicted from major streets.
Obong also noted that PBS is giving a lot of challenges to accounting officers in the Local government, arguing that even when sometimes they are assisted by a team from Finance Ministry the system doesn’t respond swiftly.
Santo Obura, the Manager of Gulu Market Sacco, who owns an office in the Northern section of the market says accessibility has remained their biggest challenge ever since the market was opened.
On Monday, Tumwesigye re-echoed to Uganda Radio Network in an interview that they will not relent on the new directive that seeks to ensure traders utilize the available designated business spaces.
Last week, Gulu City Clerk Isiah Tumwesigye issued a directive to the public banning businesses along the streets, pavements, walkways, verandahs, backstreets, and corridors within the city effective July 1.
The affected teachers are from 10 primary schools, one secondary school and a tertiary institution that we annexed to Gulu City following the creation of the Gulu City Administrative Unit.
According to Openyrwot, schools like Kweyo Primary School have very old classroom blocks built by development partners. He revealed the classrooms have dusty floors and are without windows.
Close to 300 solar street lights installed within the city under the World Bank-funded Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructural Development program-USMID have been non-functional for nearly two years.
Gulu City Mayor Alfred Okwonga, says the construction work is illegal since it contravenes the environmental act and threatens the environment. He says that they won’t allow it to proceed
Olok told URN in an interview that they decided to storm Statehouse without a prior appointment with the President because they want him to order the Finance Ministry to expedite the process of remitting local revenue to the city authorities.
The government allocated local revenue worth 491 Million Shillings to Gulu City Council for the financial year 2021/2022 but using the IRAS, Gulu City collected up to 1.8 Billion Shillings from last year to date.
Richard Irwenyo, the Gulu City Principal Education Officer revealed that in Layibi Central Primary School in Laroo –Pece Division, the vandals destroyed a fence and all the lightning arresters installed under the FICHTNER Batch II Project.
