{UAH} Pensions theft still alive and kicking?!

Pensions Theft Still alive and growing?!!

Many Ugandans believe that with the loud hullabaloo that went on about the theft of pension funds some time back, that the vice is now history!!  This, it seems, is furthest from the truth and actually the looting of pensioners funds could still very much be in progress!

I have had a chance to talk to some pensioners and I am yet to find anyone of them whose pension comes to him/her every month!  Some of them jokingly told me that they thought that government had turned into a quarterly payment!

The discrepancies in payments vary from individual to individual.  Gentleman X told me his stopped coming almost a year back and he has received nothing since!!  Gentleman Y said he receives some payments in some months and none in others!  Lady Z said she used to get her late brother's pension on account but had taken ages without seeing any of it until she was pleasantly surprised to find some money on account recently!!

The one constant in all these people's stories is that they are all not getting their pensions regularly and no one bothers to explain to them why they are not getting their pensions or if the missing months will ever be paid back to them!

What is happening to our old people's pensions?!  Why is there no official explanation about what is causing the delays, omissions, etc in the payments of our retired officers' pensions?!  Will the money our old people are missing ever be paid back?  Are the Workers' unions aware of these discrepancies, if so, why the loud silence?  Is this situation not giving cover for another set of thieves to loot workers' pensions?!!

Paget Kintu