Kikuube Resident District Commissioner Amlan Tumusiime has opened up a file in his office inviting people who were asked for money in exchange for a job to report.
Mr Tumusiime said the register would help in taking appropriate action against offenders of what he called cleaning up Kikuube for job scam.
Canon Edward Musingy, the district chief administrative officer, said money extortion for jobs has left many offices with incompetent people who can’t even deliver.
During a recent address at Kololo, President Museveni noted that there was an increase in the sale of jobs in Bunyoro sub region, citing the districts of Kikuube and Kagadi.
Shortly after a week, Vincent Alpha Opio, the Kikuube vice chairman, was arrested over soliciting Shs3 million from two teachers who had applied to get government jobs.
Mr Opio, who was remanded to Hoima government prison and later released on bail, became a gateway to the fight of sale of government jobs in Kikuube.
Locals say jobs-for-sale has become a norm with hardly anybody able to get a job without paying huge sums of money and that even some who pay still get frustrated by the highest-bidder policy.
“The sale of jobs has to become history in Kikuube and as we talk two people have turned up, including an elderly man who was asked to pay Shs3 million to have his grandson get a job by a senior district official," RDC Tumusiime said.
CAO Musingye, who is yet to make a month in office, said he hates extortion with a passion.
“Most of the times people who have competence don’t have money to buy jobs, so those don’t have competence end up getting jobs because they have money and at the end of the day they can’t even deliver to the expectations,” Musingye said.
Last week, during a scorecard monitoring on government service delivery, Deputy Inspector of Government Patricia Achan said they have heard a lot of complaints about the sale of jobs.
“We have heard and followed Kikuube keenly, it’s true there is sale of jobs here, a poor person never gets a job, it’s the rich well connected who get jobs," she said.
"Poor people have struggled to educate their children and then you subject them to sell land and property to get jobs for their children, that habit must stop."