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Kitgum Municipality has been ranked among the worst-performing administrative units in the country in the collection and disposal of solid waste in the last three years.
According to the audit report of the Auditor General for the Financial Year 2023/24, Kitgum Municipality scored only 30 percent in solid waste management in the implementation of the Uganda Municipal Support to Infrastructural Development Additional Financing (USMID-AF).
Kitgum is among the selected Municipalities and cities benefitting from funding for the implementation of the USMID-AF programme that not only focuses on infrastructural development but improved collection of urban liquid and solid waste.
Other cities are Fort Portal and Soroti which were ranked as best performing cities having collected and disposed of 86 percent of the garbage collected in their respective areas followed by Kamuli Municipality which scored 79 percent.
Other worst-performing administrative units included Lira City and Tororo Municipality which scored 10 and 28 percent respectively.
Alexis Abonga, the Acting Kitgum Municipal Engineer however acknowledged the challenges they faced in disposing of garbage in the last financial year and attributed it to lack of equipment. According to Abonga, the Municipal council leadership on Tuesday had a lengthy engagement on resolving the garbage crisis effective this February.
