There is a bitter row between the Mbale City Clerk Ambrose Ochen and his Assistant Robert Wambende over delayed deployment.
Wambende, the former Principle Assistant town clerk for Mbale City’s Industrial Division accuses his boss of refusing to deploy him for duty since restructuring of the city last year.
Wambende says the city clerk has deliberately refusing to deploy him after being promoted for reasons he has not be told.
Wambende claims that he has tried to hold talks with the town clerk but all has been in vain, saying he is planning to seek intervention of higher offices for a solution.
But Ambrose Ochen, the Mbale city clerk says that nobody has stopped Wambede from assuming office. He says that Wambende has been at the rank of Principle assistant town clerk and he was promoted and he was deployed in the office of the city clerk but wonders why he has appeared to begin working.
Ochen further explains that Wambende is struggling to occupy an office of the deputy that he does not qualify for noting that he has to sit for interviews for the position of Assistant town clerk, a position he has to serve for three years before he can qualify to occupy the office of the deputy town clerk.
Rogers Kimaswa, the Mbale City Public Accounts Committee says that currently the city is embroiled in a fracas on who should occupy the deputy town clerk, an office that was formally occupied by Kenneth Khatuli who was transferred to Jinja.
He said that the two leaders should air out their differences because Wmabende is earning for not working which is a disadvantage to the tax payers.