Opinion: The PM spent 39 million shillings to rent a vehicle [and that only covered the overtime!]

As the Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja was a part of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) earlier in the year. There is now a leaked letter from Ambassador Adonia Ayebare, the Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Uganda. He has written a letter dated the 30th September 2022 where he requested for payment of the hiring of the rental vehicle, the driver and toll-fees.

The Prime Minister needed an SUV between the 17th September 2022 to the 21st September 2022. That cost in total $10,313.75, which is around Ush. 39,206,790 shillings or 39 million shillings. The PM cost the taxpayer around 9,75 million shillings. The SUV was only used for 14 hours and not more. If you do a small calculation, it cost the PM to rent the vehicle per hour around 2,8 million shillings.

This shows how the PM is willing to spend monies from the public coffers. It was just a rental SUV in the United States. This vehicle was rented from the NY Executive Services. What is striking is the costs of this bill and it’s only the additional expenses.

So most likely the vehicle rental was costing much more, but just in addition to original billing. The PM could afford to spend 39 million shillings on 14 hours in New York. Nabbanja should wonder how she could use funds like this. It is a wastage of funds and we don’t even know how much the Permanent Mission of Uganda to the United Nations, New York had agreed on spending on this. Because, this is just the overtime of 14 hours during these four days. This bill isn’t the whole cost of the rental vehicle and what was spent on the ordinary time. The 39 million shillings is only covering the overtime.

I would wonder how steep and how many millions it cost on the original billing. Since this is an additional invoice. The original invoice have to be big when the add-ons are 39 millions of shillings. As it said in the letter: “additional charge”.

We don’t know how much it was to begin with. The PM has a lavish spending habit and used to finer things. When she costs that much for overtime in New York. We can just peculate what else she spent money on and how costly that was. This is just overtime on a rental SUV. Not the first and original invoice.

Sigh. The PM has money to burn. That is for sure. Peace.

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Opinion: Truss only lasted 44 days…

The reign of Prime Minister Liz Truss is one of the shortest. She was officially the Prime Minister from the 6th September 2022 and she resigned on the 20th October 2022. That’s only 44 days in office. She had two Chancellors and two Home Secretaries. While losing the Chief Whip and Deputy Chief Whip over a vote on the final full day, which happened to be yesterday.

We expected the letters to 1922 Committee was already in order. The PM had not only ostracized herself within the party, but also outside. The financial markets had not faith here and the public was alarmed. In the middle of a crisis of living with rising inflation, higher costs on basics and additional uproar over the prices of the electricity. There was enough trouble steering sea to able to cross into a safe-haven. However, Truss and her cabinet would steer right into the storm and never come out alive.

Prime Minister Truss and Chancellor Kwarteng really unleashed the “biscotti”. The wealthy was to live abundantly without fear of taxes or caps. There was supposed slashes in taxes and bankers was bound for a huge pay-off. It was early Christmas for the wealthiest in the Kingdom and they plenty of bounties on the way. However, it had a cost and the price was on the financial stability itself.

As the taxes, the money out of the markets and possible ramifications got consequences quickly. The trust in the gilt market fell exponentially and the mortgages was rising significantly. While the pensions funds was crashing down too. In addition, the Pound Stirling also fell in value and was devalued overnight too. There was no good news, but possible more austerity for the poorest while the richest was to get more gold. That was the project and the mission of the Truss era.

A Truss Era that only lasted a bit more than a month. She lost confidence everywhere. The PM has done several U-Turns, but nothing of she ever did helped her cause. Secondly, she also ended up forcing a fracking vote, which was a sort of confidence vote in her. Where the Tories MPs who didn’t vote on it would be deemed as “independents” and not Tory MPs. However, after seeing what happened today. That sort of forced vote didn’t help her case or the trust in her either.

The PM has not only failed the United Kingdom, but she has also failed the Conservative Party. Truss has shown the world not to govern. She even lost to a lettuce. The lettuce lasted longer than Truss.

Truss and her allies said the opposition was a “coalition of chaos” and an “anti-growth coalition”. However, the Tories themselves are these things and can only be seen as projections. Instead of looking into its own actions and what they have caused. The Tories have only caused chaos and been anti-growth. The Tories at this point is the creator of chaos… and their financial polices have only decreased the options for businesses or the financial markets. Therefore, Truss and such should be a bit more self-reflective about the actions made by herself or her appointed cabinet secretaries.

Liz Truss will be an example how in crisis to make things worse. Truss has shown how you can self implode and self-destruct without spending time in office. She is just the proof that even seasoned politicians can lack common sense and flexibility in concern to make wise decisions. That’s what she has achieved… and it’s a unique achievement.

The next successor better be aligned with some sound people in her cabinet. Secondly, better be careful with financial policies and the way forward. Truss has shown that you have to modify and carefully move forward. Not just go all in and thinking it doesn’t have consequences. Because, of the biscotti has now lost the office and her reputation.

So, I doubt you will see her sitting in a cafe in Norfolk in the future eating on a biscotti on the side of cuppa of tea. Peace.

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Ethiopia: The Tripartite Alliance will “double-down” on Tigray…

““There’s no other situation globally in which six million people have been kept under siege for almost two years,” Tedros said. “There is a very narrow window now to prevent genocide.”” (World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, 19.10.2022).

If an unarmed person is killed in Tigray, the joint army will not be responsible. Absolutely! If an unarmed person is killed in Tigray, TPLF will be responsible. Because all the people of Tigray have called for the war. They are working to make the unarmed people of Tigray a part of war. Four five times he called for everyone to join the war. TPLF is organizing people who are not armed with weapons under the command of General” (Getachew Shiferaw, 19.10.2022).

The ones that believes the Peace-Talks in South Africa will amount to anything is naive. The Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF), Eritrea Defence Force (EDF) and Amhara Para-Military Group “Fano” is advancing on multiple front in Tigray. They are going house-to-house looting in Shire. They are shelling and air-raiding towns as well. The Tripartite Alliance is using drones and other technical devices to terrorize the region. Therefore, don’t expect peace and expect horrific results out of it.

The vilification and all blame is put on Tigray. The people of Tigray is guilty by association and by ethnicity. There is also news of leaflets dropped to “cease all cooperation with the TPLF” and the Tripartite Alliance has promised to deplete, delete and annihilate the Tigray region. That’s why the “hate-speech” and rhetoric is becoming vile. Not only by veteran journalist like Shiferaw, but by others.

There is little to no hope on the horizon. The Tripartite Alliance will do like it has done before, total pillage, destruction and leave nothing behind. The Tripartite Alliance is enjoying currently the spoils of war and they are proud of it too. While being glee over the downfall of certain fronts. Which gives the Tripartite Alliance more territories.

Just read these statements too…

The Terrorist TPLF group is a threat to the peace and security of the Horn of Africa (HoA) and it should be disarmed, according to a senior political analyst. Speaking to local media, history and political affairs author and analyst Prof. Mohammed Hassen stated that the people of Tigray have been suffering a lot because of the T-TPLF” (Abdurezak Mohammed – ‘T-TPLF disruptor of HoA’s peace, security: Analyst’ 20.10.2022, The Ethiopian Herald).

One Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Ethiopia and Eritrea could be planning to create “concentration camps” to isolate the local population from supporting the TPLF. “The consequence is to move Tigrayan civilians from their homes into IDP camps at the expense of the West. The political calculation is the Tigrayans will become politically irrelevant for years to come,” he said” (Zekarias Ezra, 20.10.2022).

This is just compelling how this war has gone. The Tripartite Alliance is saying the Tigray Defence Force (TDF) should be disarmed. While they are violating the region, killing civilians, bombing their homes and stopping them to even farm their fields. The Tripartite Alliance has create a famine, a starvation campaign and has weaponized humanitarian assistance. The Tripartite Alliance are even blocking medicines and helping the hospital system from working in the region. That’s why the Tripartite Alliance is so eager to takeover airports. Just so it can air-raid, bomb and spread fear across the region. It is really unique that the Tripartite Alliance calls the TDF and TPLF “terrorists” when they are terrorizing and defending war-crimes in the name of “law-enforcement”.

Things are not only falling part, things are getting worse. People are dying endlessly. Just so the Prosperity Party could consolidate all power. They wanted all parties of the EPRDF coalition to bend the knee and bow down to the Prime Minister Abiy. However, they didn’t accept that and Abiy got his fellow allies to target, attack and never leave a stone unturned. That’s what his done…

Abiy and Afewerki is doing this to settle old scores. They are doing this to “win” and end the hegemony of Tigray. That’s their grievances. By doing so the Derg 2.0 has been created and the Medemer Terror is significant in this era. The leaders of Addis Ababa, Asmara and Bahir Dar must be so proud of the bloodshed, bloodbath and massacres in Tigray. All that blood is on their hands and they are responsible for it. Peace.

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