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Gulu District Sells 30 Plots of Land to Settle Compensation for Dismissed Staff

by Our Reporter
May 14, 2021
Gulu District Sells 30 Plots of Land to Settle Compensation for Dismissed Staff

Gulu administrative building. Courtesy photo.

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Gulu, Uganda – Gulu district local government has sold off at least 30 plots of its land to individuals to settle the cost of compensation for parish chiefs whose contracts were terminated close to 20 years ago.

The district council passed a resolution in 2001 for the termination of contracts of Parish Chiefs who were working in the various sub counties across the district. The resolution led to the termination of contracts for 89 Parish Chiefs who later dragged the district to court and sought compensation for unlawful termination.

The High Court in Gulu subsequently ruled in their favour and awarded them a compensation package of 2.6 billion Shillings in 2010, with an interest rate of 18 percent. As the money accumulated to Shs 6 billion over the years, the court attached the district assets, among them 23 vehicles, Pece War Memorial stadium, the District Administration building and 40 other plots of lands in order to settle the payment.

In December 2016, a team of bailiffs from Auctioneers and Court Bailiffs Associates attached the assets to recover the cost awarded. The then Chief Administrative Officer Dorothy Ajwang and the District Chairman Martin Ojara Mapenduzi then sought the intervention of the police to rescue the situation.

Ojara explained that the district tried to engage the Ministry of Local Government and the Central Government for financial support to settle the debt in vain.

“While the Ministry of Local Government said there was no money to give us, the Office of the President only saw our documents and said it was a bad case and the ruling was justifiable.

He said in an interview that the Bailiffs have so far recovered 2.4 billion Shillings of the total cost. Part of the money was taken from the district accounts while the rest was raised through the sale of district properties that include land and Institutional buildings.

The recently sold properties include a plot adjacent to Uganda Management Institute, a plot next to Gulu Main Prisons and the building of Gulu Support for Children Organization (GUSCO), the former rehabilitation of war-affected children of the Lord’s Resistance Army among others.

Geoffrey Okaka, the Gulu District Chief Administrative Officer says revenue collection in the district has gone so low that they cannot raise the money that could help the district to even finance its own activities.

He has also expressed fear that the district may lose most of its assets to cover the cost if the central government fails to intervene.

Piloya Evelyn, the councilor representing Paicho sub county in Gulu district local government says the debt burden is worrying and urged the district to pay keen attention in handling the employees.

The case against Gulu came when three other districts of Amuru, Nwoya and Omoro were still part of the greater Gulu district where the complainants were working before the termination of their contracts. URN

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