Gulu Municipal Council Mayor, George Labeja has come under criticism from his councilors for his failure to deliver the State of the Affairs address in the last two years.
The councilors say that since the new council was elected, Labeja has failed to inform the council on the state of the Municipality.
The mayor by law is supposed to give a state of affairs address to the council.
Deogratious Ocaya, the Councilor IV representing Vanguard Parish in Pece Division described the Mayor’s failure to address the Council on the state of the affairs as unacceptable.
Speaking during a full council meeting held at the Municipal Council Health Boardroom on Friday, Ocaya said in the last two financial years, despite several murders in the municipality by thugs, Labeja has not given any report about it to the council.
Labeja was elected Mayor partly because of his promise to improve security in the municipality. He cited his background in the military and his training in Pyongyang, North Korea as evidence that he was the best among the mayoral candidates to address insecurity in Gulu.
But despite the several cases of insecurity that Gulu has witnessed in the last two years, Labeja has been surprisingly quite.
Councilor Ocaya says it’s surprising that the Mayor of a town vying for a city status has failed to address the Council on its state of affairs in the last two years.
Another Gulu municipality Councilor, Geoffrey Komakech Oginga (Te-Gwana North), threatened to mobilize fellow Councilor and censor the Mayor.
Oginga adds that mayor has failed in his responsibility and should be removed from office, causing laughter in the Friday session of the council.
Mayor Labeja later on apologized and told the Councilors that he is not to be blamed for the failure to deliver a state of affairs address on Gulu municipality.
The Mayor said in the past he had been ‘‘fooled’’ when he read in his state of affairs report that a road had been commissioned when it was not completed. The Mayor said this embarrassed him. He, however, did not say who fooled him by including in his address that a road had been commissioned when it hadn’t been completed.
