The United Cities and Councils (UCCC) North
West Region has called on Prime Minister, Head of Government to intervene and
salvage the sad and precarious situation in which the Ministry of Finance and
its principles of “UNICITIES” have placed the councils and FEICOM.
In the letter dated August 30, 2016,
North West mayors expressed disgust over the nonpayment of Council Additional “centimes”
and CAC. To them, the delay causes council workers to go for months without salaries.
“We are also afraid of the delays in the payment of salaries to Municipal
authorities”, they emphasized.
The mayors also reiterated that when councils
were under FEICOM disbursement was prompt and timely but “in the absence of this
practice of “unicite de caisse”, council accounts never suffered the delays in
subvention transfers that are the order of the day today”.
NW mayors in the letter to Prime Minister
Yang Philemon also lamented that today it is sad that since FEICOM sent
transfers for councils in July, the Ministry of Finance has sat on them. They
suggested that FEICOM be authorized to function as the council autonomous bank
if transfer of competence to councils is to make sense. They expressed fears
that if remedial measures are not taken, FEICOM may finally end up in the
doldrums as one of the white elephant projects of government with excellent
intentions but marred by human negligence and deficiencies. In the concluding
statements North West mayors expressed disgust over the maltreatment that could
erode and frustrate grass root development yet prayed on the Prime Minister to
help the powerless council leaders voted by the people in their task in
fostering development in rural areas nationwide.
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