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Uganda: Shame On Our 'Broke' Ministers
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The Monitor (Kampala)
COLUMN
9 May 2008
Posted to the web 9 May 2008
If our ministers can claim to be totally broke what are the rest of us going to say? This time I think the joke has been taken too far, and is now bordering on mockery!
How can these fellows who did not even apply for those ministerial jobs imagine they deserve to be treated like royalty, especially in these days when things have become really hard.
And rather than look for other jobs like the rest of us do when one job is not paying enough, those chaps want us to increase their pay and all the other soft things that come with the position. Imagine those fat chaps crying for lunch allowances, like they became ministers to have lunch.
Instead they should be happy that the lunch is not there so they can become healthier and work longer in the afternoon instead of lying in the shade like fat cows to digest the lunch bought using our taxes.
I actually think these ministers don't have enough qualifications to get better jobs. Because if they did, they would have applied for all these jobs we see in the papers long time ago.
And their complaints should really expose them for who they are. They always claim they are serving the country, but we all know that true patriots would willingly go without lunch. Our chaps instead want us to pay for their membership to massage parlours and pay for their shamba boys' upkeep for good measure.
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But I don't think those ministers are being sincere about their situation. Given the heat that is being turned on corrupt officials, I think these guys are trying to pre-empt events by claiming early that they are broke so when we see them driving around in fat cars and big houses, all they'll have to do is claim their cousin doing kyeyo sent them the money. And since they have decided to behave like little children fighting over toys, we should treat them as such.
First we should ask them where they put the cars we gave them, and what they did with all the allowances they have been given all these years. You would expect that someone who goes to the parish during election time and educates the peasants about saving, should be able to practice a little bit of that himself. But not our ministers.
And that's why sometimes I think we need to subcontract the running of government to more serious people. We need people who will get straight to work instead of continuously making noises over cars and offices and now lunch. Shame on you ministers.
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