By Mike Rwothomio
Zombo District leadership has formally appealed to the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance to resolve critical technical failures affecting approximately 50 percent of Parish Development Model (PDM) tablets.
The disruptions are constraining operational efficiency across half of the district’s 61 parishes.
According to the Zombo District Production Department, 31 of...
By Mike Rwothomio | Zoomer Africa
The Government of Uganda has issued directives for the replacement of leadership in all Parish Development Model (PDM) Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations (SACCOs) across Zombo District, as part of ongoing efforts to enhance transparency, accountability, and effective implementation of the programme during its stabilization phase.
In a circular dated...
By Mike Rwothomio
The Minister of State for Defence and Veteran Affairs in charge of Veteran Affairs, Hon. Huda Oleru Abason, has directed Parish Development Model (PDM) implementers in Yumbe District to strengthen transparency, accountability and coordination to improve the performance of the government's flagship poverty eradication programme.
Minister Oleru's call comes at a time...
By ALEX PITHUA
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has explained that the Parish Development Model (PDM) program is one of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government’s deliberate interventions to get people out of poverty.
“The program of PDM is part of our philosophy from the 1960s.We didn’t believe that we should have poor people in our country. Before Amin came, we...
By Mike Rwothomio
Two parish chiefs have been arrested in Zombo over reported mismanagement and extortion of Parish Development Model(PDM) Funds.
Judith Kawun, the Parish chief of Alube Parish, Kango sub county and Manano Betty Diana, of Omua Ward, Warr town council were arrested by the Resident District Commissioner of Zombo Festus Ayikobua and his team.
Ayikubua, in an interview with this...
By Mike Rwothomio
Judith Kawun, the Parish chief of Alube in Kango Sub county and her counter part Mananu Betty Diana of Omua ward, Warr town council were released from Paidha Central Police station on Monday morning , after they paid back Parish development model (PDM) funds they had reportedly mismanaged.
The duo which spent days at Paidha Central Police station, was arrested by RDC...
By Mike Rwothomio
Local authorities in Zombo District have vehemently condemned an act of stigma and discrimination perpetrated by a Parish Development Model (PDM) Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (SACCO) in Paidha Town Council.
The SACCO ( name withheld) allegedly excluded a client living with HIV from accessing the parish revolving fund, based on the prejudicial assumption that...
By Mike Rwothomio
Zombo District’s ongoing Parish Development Model (PDM) stabilization phase is experiencing significant delays due to a persistent Parish Revolving Fund (PRF) backlog capture.
This constraint continues to hinder the timely transition of subsistence households into the money economy, according to the latest implementation update from the District Production Officer, Dr....
By Mike Rwothomio
Juliet Amia, the Town Agent for Dwonga Ward in Paidha Town Council, Zombo District, has been directed by the Resident District Commissioner Mr. Festus Ayikobua, to record a statement at Paidha Central Police Station following multiple allegations of irregularities in the disbursement and management of Parish Development Model funds.
The directive was issued during a...
By Zoomer Africa Editorial
Innocent Olama, a Wendi Agent in Zombo District, has been arrested after allegedly diverting UGX 7 million from Parish Development Model (PDM) funds to settle his personal loan obligation at a bank in Paidha. Olama was arrested on Thurday 4th June , 2026.
The funds formed part of a UGX 50 million disbursement that Olama was mandated to channel to eligible PDM...
By Mike Rwothomio
The Okoro Constituency Emyooga Fish Farmers SACCO in Zombo District anticipates generating over 100 million Ugandan shillings annually from its aquaculture and apiary projects in Paidha Sub-County.
Formed in 2021, the group, comprising members from Okoro County, has achieved an impressive loan recovery rate of 85% as of March 2025.
During the SACCO’s 2023/2024...
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