PM orders Bukoba plots audit

Bukoba. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has instructed the Controller and Auditor General (CAG), Prof Mussa Assad, to audit the allocation of 843 plots by Bukoba Municipal Council, Kagera Region.

Mr Majaliwa gave the instructions to the CAG on Monday, when addressing hundreds of residents at a rally at Mayunga Heroes’ Ground.

Residents welcomed the PM, with one of them carrying a placard with a message that they had not been allocated plots which they had paid for 10 years ago.

On his first day of his Kagera tour, the PM called municipal council executive director Wallace Karia to the podium to respond to the complaints.

He said office records showed 182 plots had not been allocated to residents, while 85 others had not been surveyed.

His statement that the municipal council planned to refund the residents during the 2016/17 financial year caused uproar at the meeting.

The PM told the executive director that the uproar signified the residents were not satisfied with his explanations.

He said he was aware that both the executive director and the mayor were still new, but he ordered them to review the 843 plots within one month, especially for 182 people, who should be allocated the plots, which were still available.

“I know you will say that you were not around at that time. You (municipal director) and your mayor should sit down and go through the contracts and files.

“You and the regional authority should sit together to know how those plots were taken up by TPDF. I will bring the CAG here so that he should review only plots within one month,” the Prime Minister said amid cheers from thousands of residents.

He ensured residents of compensation after agreeing to pave the way for the construction of a Sh31-billion water project.