
“UPDATE: The Speaker of Parliament Ms Anita Among is set to handover vehicles to several former Speakers [of Parliament], including Al Haji Moses Kigongo, Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi, Rebecca Kadaga, and Professor Edward Rugumayo” (933 KFM, 18.12.2023).
They have made the rules and decided what matters. The legislators and the Members of Parliament. By law the Speakers and Deputy Speakers has a massive retirement plan that others could die for. The vehicles given to them is set by law and by code. Speaker Among is only following up on legislation passed, which isn’t making her a villain her.
It is just what the National Resistance Movement (NRM) does to their own. They give new vehicles, chauffeurs, security guards and other perks. Heck, if they die and their spouse is still living. They are entitled to other funds for the remaining family. That’s how golden these tickets are and how they can life off it.
The ones complaining about potholes, lack of service delivery or dilapidated government institutions. Well, it is done by design. By law they have to accustom and acquire these things. The retired high ranking officials are entitled to massive pay-offs and retirement plans. These plans are better than people wages and even with more substantial benefits. Which shows how the elites thrives on tax-payers and donor funds. Because, someone has to cover this expenditure and the ones eating aren’t the one paying. That we all know by now.
The ones defending this should be ashamed. The NRM remedy to any sort of government policy is either a vehicle or a get-rich-money scheme. That’s all they are offering. Not long term solutions or even certainties or eventualities. No, that is long gone and the well written planning documents are for the archive’s. That’s just a given in 2023 and who believes the NRM will deliver or even consider to change?
Nah, change isn’t in them. The NRM is stagnate and happy to live in mediocrity. They are happy with the prospects of high ranking officials dying in hospitals abroad. The NRM is happy to see the brains and the well educated skate up into the sunset in the West. That’s what they while the civil servants and the rising poverty continues. The schemes and the facade is broken.
It isn’t just some potholes in Kampala. Neither is it just one hospital who cannot afford to pay electricity or lack medicine. Neither is it one school who cannot afford light-bulbs. No, it is the whole rotten system and the ones to inherit the republic will have a quagmire to fix it. As if it isn’t sold, stolen or rented. It surely is indebted and in cycle of bad loans coming home to roast. While petroleum-dollars aren’t coming fast enough to salvage the burden.
The NRM will confess to their misgivings, as they doling out SUVs and bashing in glory. As they are lost ducks trying to quack. They are just oblivious to the fact and cannot comprehend their own lacklustre performance over the years. This regime is brutal and inconsiderate. They rather bury its enemies and hoping its cousins dies on hospital-beds without mattresses. That’s what they are giving you and this is their pride and joy.
We can act like it wasn’t a priority to give former Speakers this perk. They served their master and now they got their price. That’s how they are living on the lie and expecting to be loyal to the cause. It is a small token to stay grounded and be within the realm of His Excellency. As they are still on his pay-roll. That’s the game here and we can act indifferent, but it doesn’t make it less true.
The SUVs are the solutions to anything I suppose… at least that the memo I am getting from the NRM. Peace.











