City Divisions Want Financial Powers To Determine Their Budgets

City Divisions Want Financial Powers To Determine Their Budgets

By our Writer

CITY HALL

THE five Divisions which make up KCCA have vowed to do any thing it takes to get more powers from the centre saying they are now feeble.

In a stormy meeting ,Kampala Division councilors threatened halting the budgeting process for the FY 2025/2026 unless full devolution of power to their respective city divisions was effected.

The unanimous decision was made at a stakeholders’ meeting attended by the Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA executive committee, councilors, division mayors, and the technical wing, and chaired by Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago in the Mayor’s Parlour.

Lukwago told the meeting that the KCCA council had passed a resolution for devolution of power in 2016 but no significant steps have been taken by the central government to operationalize it.

He said this humpers division urban councils from making their own budgetary appropriations as the amended KCCA Act stipulates.

The Lord Mayor also pointed out that KCCA has continued to operate with one consolidated vote number 122 and one accounting officer, instead of six separate votes for the authority and the five divisions.

Lukwago noted that the operation of a single consolidated vote by KCCA is a violation of Section 13 of the Public Finance Management Act of 2015, as well as Sections 28B, 32, 35, and 53 of the amended KCCA Act.

Presently division councils only sent a wish list to KCCA but even then it’s not prioritised.