Masaka City councilors have vowed not to attend council meetings until their sitting allowances are paid.
On Monday, the office of the city speaker wrote to the councilors, informing them that the scheduled council meeting had been postponed on ground that the social services’ committee had not yet submitted its report and the councilors’ emoluments and allowances had not yet been cleared.
On November 30th, the council sitting was aborted after councilors walked out in protest, claiming that they had not received their allowances for four consecutive sittings.
The Monday council sitting is the second to be postponed in a space of two weeks over the same issue.
Each city councilor is entitled to Shs900,000 every three months as sitting allowances and Shs330,000 as transport allowance.
In a letter dated December 12th addressed to the city speaker, Tonny Ssempijja, the city mayor, Ms Florence Namayanja raised concern over delays to clear allowances for both councilors and executive members.
Zahara Nalubyayi, a member of the city social services committee, said they have given the city clerk two weeks to clear councillors’ allowances before they can resume council business.
