{UAH} Pojim/WBK: Magufuli 'bans' meat, lunches during meetings | The Star, Kenya

People get facts - a real time experience in Uganda wil suffice to introduce to use broad day time robbery.

Richard Byarugaba of NSSF has a very interesting story about this when some one supplied tens of litres of milk daily to NSSF but workers drunk tea without milk!

Many financial officers have lost jobs in Uganda, particularly using such occasions as route to siphon off public and private organisation funds. It is another double industry "stealing" via dubious service provision and an unregulated "catering services" one of the biggest industries in Uganda!

To succeed in this industry you must be attached to a financial or procurement officer who in normal circumstance is a relative and another to plan for a bigger budget!

The consequence is a neat woven non porous network of workers discouraging or fighting new comes - an insider outsider labour theory. (see Daniel Bwanika Involuntary Unemployment)

 

Many government and non-government Agencies have built an economy about these so called official days. Regulation of such activities is very neccessary.

I am looking after some people here, recently I got a demand note for such activities - not budgeted for in normal fees. I tried to flow what the money had been used for - what I learnt was surprising.

 

One time, at a certain organization, 100 creates of soda came in, and within a few minutes were loaded back and disappeared in thin air.

Such primitive behavoiurs are not limited to drinks but meat which on such every  occasion people smuggle into the boots of their cars. At another oragnisation young men built a businesses around this sort of thing - supplying air for services. I have seen this with my naked eyes.

Africa is amazing!

This industry though quite important in redistribution of resources leaves some organization budgetless for important activities since above mentioned characters start benchmarking their new acquisitions on such days where they actually do not provide services per se but just rob the beneficiaries, in schools, hospitals, ophrnages, weddings you name it.

And this is a lot of money my friends, in 100 million of shillings. As an example in Europe I never saw such spendthrift yet organiations had so much money to spend around. 

I normally attend state functions - foreign functions have limited extravagancy! A few bits, severl glass of wine etc.

In our culture that implies several heads of bulls, 100 bunches of matooke you name - I have always wondered where the money comes from? And the party will go on and on!

Bwanika

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Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero

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