Routine activities of the secretariat of Kuje area council are currently going on at snail speed due to what the staff in various departments described as the “inability of the council to make funds available.”
Recent reports from the secretariat claimed that not much seemed to be going on in the council as requests for funds to carry out official assignments had always met with a negative response from the chairman, who Blueprint gathered, had consistently maintained that there “is no cash in the council’s coffers to run daily administrative affairs.”
An official of the council would not have his name mentioned, however, disagreed with the chairman’s claim, saying that “the problem lies with the chairman’s administrative style.”
He said activities of the council had continued to decline since the chairman assumed office.
When contacted, the chairman, Hon. Ishaku Shaban Tete, during the meeting with newsmen in his office recently, admitted that the monthly allocation to the council was used to pay salaries after which nothing was left to run the affairs of the council.
