Kenyan
JF-Expert Member
- Jun 7, 2012
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By Bernard Tabaire (OPINION)
It is a good thing that MPs are thinking of dying and are planning for it. What have they been waiting for all this time? No matter, I very much encourage them to continue along their dust-to-dust path. Uganda could turn out the better off for it.
Look, the World Bank is withholding new lending to Uganda because of the incompetence of our politicians and technocrats. The Bank's loans are not being used to deliver value for money. There are "delays in project effectiveness, weaknesses in safeguards monitoring and enforcement, and low disbursement".
President Museveni and company cry all the time that Uganda is a poor country with a "limited resource envelope" and that is why they can't provide sensible education and healthcare to Ugandans. But even when they willing get loans and grants, on good terms moreover, they act so blasé.
None a dignitary than Finance Permanent Secretary/Secretary to the Treasury Keith Muhakanizi thinks Uganda is at the bottom in Africa in using World Bank money. Yet he doesn't even resign for that. He passes the buck to the "ministries that implement these projects, not me".
No sense of shame. No sense of outrage.
The other day President Museveni was also just whining about the near non-expenditure of loans and grants to build things like hundreds of schools around the country. He claims this term is Kisanja Hakuna Mchezo, yet he can't bring himself to fire ministers and permanent secretaries guilty of poor/non-expenditure of borrowed dollars.
Hakuna Mchezo is, of course, empty sloganeering. Mr Museveni's laser focus is not on effective government, it is on how to get another kisanja. The first step in the effort is MP Kafeero Ssekitoleko's very urgent desire to change the Constitution and raise the retirement age of judges. Next, logically, is to remove the presidential age limit to allow Mr Museveni go for it again in 2021.
The MPs, cunning as ever, pick their cue from the President and take full advantage. They know they will give Mr Museveni his kisanja anyway, and so they must extract their pound of flesh while at it.
They seek cars that cost hundreds of millions of shillings. They pay themselves hefty per diems to go on endless and mostly useless foreign trips. They now want nearly Shs70 million put aside for each MP's death.
It is a good thing that MPs are thinking of dying and are planning for it. What have they been waiting for all this time? No matter, I very much encourage them to continue along their dust-to-dust path. Uganda could turn out the better off for it.
Look, the World Bank is withholding new lending to Uganda because of the incompetence of our politicians and technocrats. The Bank's loans are not being used to deliver value for money. There are "delays in project effectiveness, weaknesses in safeguards monitoring and enforcement, and low disbursement".
President Museveni and company cry all the time that Uganda is a poor country with a "limited resource envelope" and that is why they can't provide sensible education and healthcare to Ugandans. But even when they willing get loans and grants, on good terms moreover, they act so blasé.
None a dignitary than Finance Permanent Secretary/Secretary to the Treasury Keith Muhakanizi thinks Uganda is at the bottom in Africa in using World Bank money. Yet he doesn't even resign for that. He passes the buck to the "ministries that implement these projects, not me".
No sense of shame. No sense of outrage.
The other day President Museveni was also just whining about the near non-expenditure of loans and grants to build things like hundreds of schools around the country. He claims this term is Kisanja Hakuna Mchezo, yet he can't bring himself to fire ministers and permanent secretaries guilty of poor/non-expenditure of borrowed dollars.
Hakuna Mchezo is, of course, empty sloganeering. Mr Museveni's laser focus is not on effective government, it is on how to get another kisanja. The first step in the effort is MP Kafeero Ssekitoleko's very urgent desire to change the Constitution and raise the retirement age of judges. Next, logically, is to remove the presidential age limit to allow Mr Museveni go for it again in 2021.
The MPs, cunning as ever, pick their cue from the President and take full advantage. They know they will give Mr Museveni his kisanja anyway, and so they must extract their pound of flesh while at it.
They seek cars that cost hundreds of millions of shillings. They pay themselves hefty per diems to go on endless and mostly useless foreign trips. They now want nearly Shs70 million put aside for each MP's death.
