Nestor Tumwesigye, the Kyangwali sub-county LC5 councilor in Kikuube district spent the night in police cells accused of attempting to assault the State Minister for Works and Transport, Fred Byamukama. The incident occurred on Wednesday during a sensitization meeting for the implementers of the Parish development Model-PDM in the district.
Trouble started when most parish chiefs, community development officers-CDOs, and town clerks failed to show up for the meeting at the district headquarters prompting the minister to halt the meeting and order Chief Administrative Officer-CAO Milton Andrew Chelangat Kamalingin to trace for them.
Chelangat instructed the chiefs to rush for the meeting or else they face it rough prompting many to dash to the meeting venue. However, before the meeting could proceed, Amlan Tumusiime, the Kikuube Resident District Commissioner-RDC informed the minister that some parish chiefs were extorting money from the PDM beneficiaries promising to help them to open bank accounts and form SACCOs yet the entire program is for free.
According to Tumusiime, the parish chiefs are extorting between Shillings 50,000 to Shillings 200,000 from the PDM beneficiaries. The minister couldn’t have any of this. He ordered the immediate arrest of the implicated parish chiefs, saying their actions are illegal. Byamukama’s directive to arrest the parish chiefs didn’t go down well with Tumwesigye who charged at the minister and attempted to assault him.
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