It serves these socalled ministers right; they are the ones, for greed and selfish reasons, act as the mouthpiece of a corrupt cult government. Because their boss terrorises them at will - they have no recourse but suffer in quiet. Word is that these are forever in a panic, shaking in the knees whenever they are surmoned to see the big man. These ministers like all concerned citizens should building institutions of accountability instead of relying on one cult leader to decide everything that passes for governance. The irony of all ironies is that the media is now coming to their rescue. Without the media that they dont support - like other instutions like the judiciary - nobody would even know what is actually going on. These mininsters and country as whole are misguided in heaping all the power in one cult figure and expect to be treated fairly.

Here is how corrupt the country is. Instead of paying an employee a living wage they are willing to pay employees all kinds of allowances that amount to tens of times the actually paltry salary. This way it is easy to manipulate the pay by cutting off the allowances. But what is tragic is that it allows for corrutpion because now emplyees, instead of concetrating on their work, spend time inventing ways and means to bump up their monthly allowances to pad they pay. They submit bogus medical claims; they organize fictitious conferences - like the three mininsters who embezzled Global AIDS Funding moneys; they go on fictitious trips to attend fictitious conferences; they organise political functions that never take place. This the modus operadi that it used by employees from those at the presidents office to thoese at a village council.

Here is the solution: pay employees a living wage instead of a truck load of allowances that only allows for and entrenches the subculture of corruption. In a word get rid of the allowances, and instead pay a living wage. Every employee should be able figure out how they spend their pay instead of each time running begging for allowances. You figure if the employer can pay all these allowances on a regular basis why cant they just pay a decent salary like its done in all countries ? The only fathomable explanation is that it is one way to control the hapless employees while at the same time preside over a corrupt criminal enterprise called government. The leaders get to rule without challenge while enriching themselves with impunity and arrogance.