Badru D. Mulumba
22 October 2002
Kampala — Government spends about Shs 5.6bn to buy cars for presidential advisors, an MP said yesterday.
Nandala Mafabi (Budadiri West), who also is Reform Agenda Secretary for Poverty Eradication and Economic Affairs, told a press briefing in Kampala yesterday that each car costs about Shs 80m plus taxes.
"A presidential advisor is entitled to a car, and [a spouse too] is entitled to one," he said.
The MP said that there are 35 presidential advisors, each earning about Shs 4m a month, and entitled to a bodyguard and garden helper.
Mafabi said that presidential advisors are doing the work supposed to be done by ministers.
"The cost of maintaining a senior presidential advisor is equivalent to that of a Cabinet minister," Mafabi said. "Either the president decides to do away with the Cabinet, or the advisors."
The group's Secretary for Labour Beatrice Anywar said that the recent public bickering between Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi and Minister of State for Northern Uganda Agard Didi shows that resources are misplaced.
Didi was recently reported complaining while appearing before MPs that Nsibambi has sidelined him.
He later apologised.
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