{"id":49064,"date":"2026-10-21T13:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T11:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=49064"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:08:26","slug":"caretaker-minister-summons-drop-in-bucket-over-scholarship-activities-in-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/caretaker-minister-summons-drop-in-bucket-over-scholarship-activities-in-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Caretaker Minister summons Drop in Bucket over scholarship activities in the State"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ijoo Bosco\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eastern Equatoria State Caretaker Minister of Education, Ibwaha Lucy, has summoned Drop in Bucket, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), to explain its activities in the state following concerns over the implementation of its scholarship programs without prior coordination with the state government.<\/p>\n

The ministry said it had learned that the organisation operates between Magwi County in South Sudan and Gulu District in northern Uganda, with scholarship activities reportedly concentrated in Nimule Town Council.<\/p>\n

Minister Ibwaha expressed concern that the sponsorship program was not benefiting citizens across the state, raising questions about the distribution of scholarship opportunities among counties and administrative areas.<\/p>\n

She called for an immediate halt to scholarship programs and other sponsorship activities until arrangements are made to ensure that all counties and administrative areas benefit fairly.<\/p>\n

The minister emphasised the need for the organisation to coordinate its activities with the relevant government institutions to promote transparency, accountability, and equitable access to educational opportunities.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Drop-in Bucket Programme Manager Paul Lokaba acknowledged the coordination challenges and apologised to the Ministry of Education and the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission for the lack of proper communication between the organization’s management and government institutions.<\/p>\n

Lokaba said the organisation would put its scholarship programs on hold until it establishes closer cooperation with the relevant government ministries and institutions responsible for overseeing the implementation of the projects.<\/p>\n

He also accepted the need to review the scholarship scheme serving South Sudanese nationals in Nimule, Magwi County, and Ugandan beneficiaries in Gulu District, pending improved coordination with the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n

The development highlights the importance of cooperation between non-governmental organisations and government institutions in ensuring that education and sponsorship programs are implemented in line with government priorities and benefit the intended communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ijoo Bosco\u00a0 Eastern Equatoria State Caretaker Minister of Education, Ibwaha Lucy, has summoned Drop in Bucket, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), to explain its activities in the state following concerns over the implementation of its scholarship programs without prior coordination with the state government. The ministry said it had learned[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":49065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,81,80,79,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eastern-equatoria-state","category-education","category-national","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ibwaha-Lucy-Caretaker-Eastern-Equatoria-state-Minister-of-Education-courtesy-photo--e1792583518771.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49070,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49064\/revisions\/49070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}