The plight of the Region Eight administration

Dec 18, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am penning this letter to highlight the problems we are encountering with our RDC Statutory meetings in Region Eight.
First of all, because of the transportation cost for transporting Councillors for RDC meetings, we only have RDC meetings quarterly. The problem is that most of these meetings bear little fruit if any at all because of the behaviour of Clerk of the Council whom I believe was specially sent into this Region with a special agenda to stymied development here.
In our first RDC meeting of the year the Clerk of the Council and all the Programme Managers were absent from the meeting. We received two excuses, one from the Clerk of the Council and another one from a programme manager. The persons they sent to represent them as programme managers could not have given answers to most of the questions asked by the Toshaos, and Regional Councillors.
In our second RDC meeting of the year, the Clerk of the Council was absent for part of the morning session and the entire afternoon session of the first day. He appointed an assistant accountant to act in his place. The next day of the RDC meeting the Assistant Regional Executive Officer (AREO) deputized in his absence for only the morning session. The assistant accountant held the brief for the afternoon session.
The Clerk of Council was present for the entire third RDC meeting. The last meeting for the year was to be held on December 9 and December 10. After I did not receive any notice I enquired from our Regional Chairman about the missing notice. He informed me that he was informed by the Clerk of the Council that there is insufficient money allocated under line item 6211 to conduct a full sitting of the RDC.
I found this to be rather strange that all the money is finished. I feel that there were some misappropriation of the funds.
Mr. Editor I find this rather unfair to the Councillors, for someone to be spending money that is allocated in the budget to run the Council, as if it is their personal money, and refusing to a no-objection from the Council before payment is made. Imagine we are owed two months stipend for past year and two months for this year but there is no money.
I am calling for a full investigation of the spending of line item 6211. I would like our Members of Parliament to look into this matter and call for a full investigation how the money was spent.
These are some of the reasons why we were forced to move a motion of no-confidence against the Clerk of Council, and our position remains the same; we don’t have any confidence in him.
And while this Clerk of the Council continues with this delinquent behavior he continues to enjoy the full confidence and support of the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development.
Oswald Junor
Regional Democratic Councillor
Region No.8

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