Pader district weekly COVID-19 task force management meetings have been suspended over the alleged delays of payment of allowances to members of the task force.
The move was made by the Resident District Commissioner Dusman Okee who pronounced the suspension during a meeting held at the district headquarters on Thursday.
He told the meeting, that the task force members can only reconvene after all their dues have been fully paid.
Okee argues that numerous requisition vouchers have been made to the Chief Administrative officer and the District Health Officer but no payments have been made to any of the task force members, ever since the COVID 19 funds were disbursed to the district three months ago. He says that many of the task force members are losing morale.
Pader district received 498 million Shillings from the central government to facilitate its response to the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
These funds were meant to cater for allowances and inland travels for taskforce members and frontline workers that include medical health staff, village health team members, local council chairpersons, vehicle maintenance and medical supplies.
However, the Chief Administrative Officer Alex Chelimo attributed the delays to failures in the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) which had bogged down numerous transactions.
Chelimo however called for patience saying that deliberate measures are now being made to ensure payments of all their pending dues.
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