By Steven Enatu
SOROTI CITY
The Deputy Resident City Commissioner Soroti City West, Josephine Osiba Ibasere has been transferred to Kumi Municipality and replaced by James Small Chemutai formerly Kapchorwa Deputy RDC.
Ibasere served in Soroti in the capacity of the Deputy RCC Soroti City West for one year and seven months from March 2022.
During the handover on 31st October 2023, Ibasere expressed her heartfelt appreciation to the President for the appointment and first deployment in Soroti City West.
“I really thank God and H.E, the President of Uganda for granting to have served the people of Soroti at the level of the deputy RCC. It was a good experience, my first deployment and I would refer to it as a training college. It sounded very scary being a city, they told me it’s a busy city, city have high crime rate. It it’s been a good challenge for me, it has built my capacity and I am ready for the new task in the new place,” she said.
Ibasere said she is anxious about the new posting and can’t wait to contribute to the team and make it better. “I will join not separate them, united we stand, divided we fall” she said.
While in Soroti city, Ibasere notes a key challenge of upsurge in the number of children living in the street. A trend she said scares anyone in the city. “But I am sure the new deputy commissioner jointly with Peter Pex Paak the Commissioner and the other colleague in the East deputy commissioner Edwin Beneza will be able to address that matter,” she noted.
James small Chemutai, the new Deputy Resident City Commissioner Soroti city West now, is a grade three teacher, journalist and politician. He formerly served as the deputy RDC Lira district and before coming to Soroti, he was the Deputy District Commissioner Bukwo.
He appealed to the people in Soroti city to support and work jointly with him so that the community appreciates social economic transformation in the region and as a country.
