PAUL MUGOYA: How Top NRM Honchos Are Frustrating Efforts In The Fight Against High-Profile Corruption

NRM is fused with the State. This is already a form of corruption. This can be mindboggling but it is a reality. It is a big challenge to demand accountability from a Government where the ruling party is fused with the State. That’s why we shall continue to have classified budgets, expenditures, endless supplements, etc.

Many times the President has come out to condemn the vice but again has also come out to be ambivalent and sometimes defensive on the same whenever the names of known high-profile thieves are cornered and exposed.

We all know that corruption is deadly and as a result, many Ugandans have died because of a lack of medicines. Corruption has tremendously affected the quality of life the ordinary person faces daily.

I pity kids from poor families who go to school on empty stomachs. Such a poor society becomes highly susceptible to vulnerabilities you can easily see the desperation of hunger in the glare of staring eyes seeking and begging for a solution.

There was a time when, Hon. Nandala Mafabi, my MP for Budadiri West, Sironko district, now the FDC strongman in Najjanakumbi who once campaigned to support the economically disadvantaged child by providing meals to them in schools, this was in 2006.

I’m raising this issue because we cannot pretend to build a nation when our kids study on empty stomachs. I’m talking about how dangerous corruption can be. We have had high-profile corruption scandals registered under NRM, Embezzlement, and Ineffectiveness of Anti- anti-corruption institutions in Uganda.

I think we should stop talking or bragging about economic growth when Uganda is the second most corrupt country in the East African Community. A country with no functional modern railway network. A country that has failed to provide low-income decent houses for its suburban dwellers in the suburbs within the peripheries of its cities.

I would like to appreciate and thank our first daughter Patience Museveni for boldly condemning corruption as a curse on this country. The insinuation I read from her statement is that we are shrouded with a demonic curse. Every time the curse makes us, including our leaders, not see the dangers of corruption.

Instead, we shield the thieves and try to gloss over them and make their actions appear normal and very trivial. The recent statement coming from the President that if things are committed here, then that becomes an internal affair. Does the President mean that if neighbors raise a complaint about the behavior of the child of a neighbor selling property the parents should be left alone because it is an internal matter?

My beloved President, you once appealed to concerned people to help Wananchi fight corruption, what has gone wrong? You called such thieves, parasites during the anti-corruption walk that was organized by Col. Edith Nakalema, Head of the Anti-Corruption Unit, StateHouse.

For God and My Country
Paul Mugoya Polly
Concerned Citizen, former, FRONASA Veteran, UPM Youth Leader, FDC Chairman, Chairman Elders Forum, BCU. Now NRM Delegate To The National Conference.