{UAH} Squandering public resources and wealth, no to such form of representation, sea of endless oligarch ideology.

By Jackie Asiimwe-Mwesige:

Yesterday while at Parliament, I bumped into one of the legislators who, while against Parliament's move to exempt MPs from paying their full share of tax, said we are focused to narrowly on them and that we should rather take a broader view of where and how money goes to waste in our budget.
He gave me one example - remember when NAADS was handed over to the army? Each district now has two army officers, at the rank of major and above - who oversee NAADS, aka Operation Wealth Creation. Kampala has two army officers for each of the five divisions. Last year, Government bought each officer a brand new pick up truck estimated at 250 million shillings. If we calculate that at a conservative figure of 112 districts (making 224 Army NAADS officials) that gives you 56,000,000,000 - just on cars alone - before we even talk about salaries, drivers, fuel allowance, etc.
This MP also said we should be pushing back against a very heavy administrative burden which has been brought about by the sub-division of Uganda into 'district-lets.' He said we should push back against having such a big parliament. He said India, which has 1.3 billion people, has has only 600 legislators, while Uganda with 35 million people, has 435 legislators (and growing, given that new districts were approved).
So bottom line, while it is well and good to be concerned about MPs dodging taxes, there are also very many dodgy expenses in our national budget that we would do well to pay attention to.

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