LANGO: Apac RDC Abdul Commends Grade One Magistrate For Remanding Emyoga Defaulters.
The Apac Grade one Magistrate court has on Monday remanded three defaulters of Emyooga Program.
Mr Ayo Moses,Opio Ilee and Ocen Jacob ,all members of Maruzi North Welders Sacco have been sent to serve six months remand period in Atopi Prison until they pay back all that they owe to the Sacco.
Speaking to our reporter from the district headquarters on Monday ,16th October 2023 the Resident District Commissioner (RDC)of Apac Mr Abudul George applauded the Grade 1 Magistrate for upholding the wish of the district security committee of Apac. By remanding the stubborn Emyoga defaulters.
” We tried all the persuasive means to talk to those who borrowed this revolving fund to pay back,but all we would get is,this was a presidential handshake we can’t pay back” Abudul said.
According to RDC Abdul George this prompted the Apac District security committee to finally recommend for collection of the Emyoga debts from errand debtors through the court of law as one way of bringing them to book.
”This money was meant to revolve and benefit all members of the Sacco members in a particular selected enterprise but not only to a few greedy members who borrowed and never wished to pay back”the RDC added.
George noted that ,it has come to the attention of his Office that some people who got the money never wanted to pay back and this must act as a lesson to some people who take government programs for granted more especially by calling it as presidential handshake.
The government of Uganda around the year 2021,mobilised people to benefit from Emyoga programs and released huge amount of money under the Emyoga programs to help organised Sacco under several selected enterprises including carpentry,tailoring,taxi operators,media and performing artists among others to benefit.
It is however shameful that some people in Apac district have stubbornly rejected to pay back the money.
Apac district a week ago according to Jovrine Kalisa Kyomukama, the deputy national coordinator at the PDM secretariat have scored highly by successfuly disbursing all the PDM funds correctly to 100 percent.