{UAH} Finance Ministry PS Ramathan Ggoobi Dissects Uganda’s problems
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PS Ministry of Finance Ramathan Ggoobi (FILE PHOTO)Kampala – Power has finally been handed to Makerere University Business School economist and critic, Ramathan Ggoobi, who describes himself as a pragmatist and a proponent of economics that works.
Ggoobi was on Thursday appointed Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Finance and Secretary to the Treasury after dancing on the edge power for some weeks.
A day before Museveni announced the cabinet last month, Daily Monitor leaked a purported list of cabinet nominees, and Ggoobi had been tipped to be Minister of Finance. But when Museveni finally released the cabinet list, he retained Matia Kasaija.
Ggoobi described the 24 hours from when Daily Monitor tipped him to the time the cabinet list was released as interesting. "I enjoyed power for 24 hours, there were very many encouraging messages and when the list came out, all of a sudden, I lost the power," he said on Uganda Broadcasting Corporation –UBC TV Wednesday Behind Headlines programme where he is a panellist.
Ggoobi said those 24 hours taught him the "kind of life which politicians go through" and why it's always a life and death battle for those in office to stay. As he takes office, it is the future that will tell if he will also fight hard to stay as long as the man he is succeeding, Keith Muhakanizi who has been in office for almost a decade.
Ggoobi is said to have been Operation Wealth Creation -OWC's chief economist and was part of the team that drafted the National Resistance Movement -NRM 2021-26 manifesto. Thus, he comes at the right time to implement a document he co-authored.
Project implementation
In his writings over the years and regular appearance in print and broadcast media respectively, Ggoobi has divulged his philosophical thoughts and diagnosis of Uganda's economic problems. On numerous occasions, he has argued that Uganda's number one problem is poor implementation policies, strategies and laws.
"NRM/NRA has written very good papers over the years, the challenge has always been the quality of implementation," he argued on May 12th, a day after Museveni took oath for the sixth term in office.
Ggoobi authored a paper titled "From Paper to Practice: Implementation of Uganda's Industrialization Agenda" which was published by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Uganda Country office in 2019.
Government projects, he argued are derailed by weak decision making in ministries, departments and agencies. He gave a scenario when for instance, a commissioner in a ministry can't make a simple decision, forwarding the issue to the director who forwards it to the permanent secretary. The permanent secretary forwards it to a minister to take it cabinet and the cabinet leaves it to the president who would also want to first consult electorates before making the final decision.
Ggoobi described these delays of critical things which would kick-start the processes of transforming Uganda as "silly." And they must be addressed.
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