Robukui
Uganda politics was decided by Baganda when they saw a Dog fit to replace
Obote. When you go after the Dogs administration of Uganda, you directly
become anti Buganda. Let a Dog run the country for it was adorned very
publicly sir and you were not.
EM
On the 49th
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robukui .
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 10:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {UAH} Uganda Govt On Brink Of Bankruptcy
Frank,
The thieves are broke, and now are trying to mortgage Uganda's future
further by borrowing more from the IMF.
Viele GruBe
Robukui
On 23 July 2013 08:26, Frank Mujabi <[email protected]> wrote:
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THORNY ERA: Government Runs low on Finances and pushes to Rush the 2013/14
Budget to save the already Embarrassing Situation as MPs, Ministries, Local
Govts, Teachers, UPE, USE, Suffer the blow
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By Stephen K Muwambi
<http://www.investigator.co.ug/details.php?option=acat&a=933> 22nd, July
2013
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The country's three financial players are in trouble as Government nears
bankruptcy
Disturbing news reaching our desk indicates that the government is broke and
is having a hard time clearing salaries, paying suppliers as well as
contractors.
Highly placed sources within the Finance Ministry confirmed the governments
current embarrassing financial position when we sought them out.
As a result, the government is moving to have the Parliament pass the
2013/2014 budget passed as fast as possible. Government has also cut down on
imprest and allowances given to ministries and government departments.
Our source cited some of the evident scenarios that prove the regretful
state our government is in.
Teachers
As we filed this report today, teachers had kicked off yet another strike,
demanding an increase in their salaries. In fact, the NRM Parliamentary
caucus members are at the moment holed up in a crisis meeting with their
chairman President Yoweri Museveni to find a solution to the troubling
financial times.
Professors and lecturers at Makerere University have also put government on
notice that they will not turn up to lecture rooms come next semester.
The University administration should not waste time opening the varsity
for the next semester if the promised salary increase does not come to
pass, Makerere University Academic Staff Association Spokesperson, Louis
Kakinda told journalists last week.
Their source of grievance, Kakinda explains, stems from governments promise
to increase their pay by 100% this financial year.
In subsequent meetings attended by government representatives and the
lecturers, Kakinda claims, agreed that the increase will be implemented in
bits starting with a 20% increase. The 20% increase, Kakinda adds, was
agreed to be implemented in the next semester.
We have information that government has gone back on its word regarding the
20% salary increase which is even captured in the 2013/14 budget. We shall
not take the betrayal lying down. We shall express our displeasure by
withdrawing our services come next semester, Kakinda charged.
Doctors
Info we have is that even doctors are also gearing up to go on strike if
government does not implement the salary increases it promised them.
Some heath centers, especially those in the countryside, are said to be
lacking drugs and other equipments used to treat patients.
However, the management of National Medical Stores (NMS) has always
dismissed the reports, assuring Ugandans there are enough drugs to sustain
the nation. NMS chiefs blame the lack of drugs on doctors who steal them or
hoard them until they have been given a bribe.
UPE & USE
UPE schools around the country are also said to be stuck with no money to
operate the governments free Universal Primary Education.
Our investigations indicate that private schools that are offering Universal
Primary Education are contemplating sending the beneficiaries home because
of delayed remittances from the Central government. The same is true for
private secondary schools that are offering Universal Secondary Education.
Contractors and Suppliers
Contractors and suppliers of goods and services, we learnt, are too feeling
the pinch with the broke government failing to deliver monies on time.
Majority of such contractors have in fact been dragged to court for failing
to pay suppliers of materials they use to perform contracts for government.
Under pressure, such contractors have in turn sued government or served the
Attorney General, several ministries or government departments and agencies
demanding payment.
Security
Some policemen and security officials, we understand, have also not been
paid salaries for at least two months. Government has instead resorted to
giving them free food so they can carry on in the absence of salaries.
Judiciary
In the judiciary, courts mostly upcountry are reported to be lacking
stationery and ink and litigants are made to buy files in which to fasten
their case documents.
Source of brokenness ??
The Governments financial woes heightened when the ruling party raided
the treasury and drew sacks of money to fund the 2011 presidential and
parliamentary elections. The election has since been billed as the most
expensive in the countrys history.
Military Jets
There was also uproar when government picked around 11 trillion from the
national treasury without Parliamentary approval and bought six fighter jets
from Russia. Government would later have Parliament approve the deal
belatedly.
OPM/ Pension Scam
Still reeling from the foregoing financial setback, Ugandans would later
wake up to disturbing news of the more than Shs50bn that was stolen in the
Office of the Prime Minister. The money was meant to rehabilitate the war
ravaged northern region of the country. The donors were so disappointed
that they turned off the dollar taps.
Stuck, government still returned to the national treasury and secretly
picked money to refund the donors stolen dollars. But the donors were not
impressed by the refund.
Defeated, government chose to hike taxes through the 2013/2014 Budget so
that businesses would end up deflecting on the already financially hard up
common man by increasing much needed commodities such as paraffin et cetera.
But, keen political observers blame the countrys financial woes on the
wasteful government, whose priorities are upside down. They argue that
government spends way beyond its means and so is definitely destined to run
into money problems.
Observers also argue that government spends a lot of money on a bloated
cabinet, civil service, local government, Presidential Advisors who rarely
do their jobs, stadia of RDCs, DISOs, GISOs, who perform duplicated work,
among such bureaucracy.
In short, the pundits say government is wasting more money on consumption
other than production. There are many mouths waiting to be fed than the
hands willing to engage in productive work.
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