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Uganda: 'Restrict Burials to Saturday'
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New Vision (Kampala)
24 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Joyce Namutebi
Kampala
Burials should be conducted on Saturday afternoons only, the rest of the days going to productive work, former vice-president Dr. Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe, has proposed.
Kazibwe, who heads the Micro-Finance Support Centre, suggested to members of the parliamentary SACCO that each constituency should have a mortuary with a fridge to preserve corpses. The centre is the lead agency in the implementation of the Prosperity-for-All programme.
She was meeting the MPs at Parliament yesterday.
The rate of deaths, Kazibwe observed, was very high, adding that people were spending a lot of time at burials and that vehicles which should be doing more productive work were also being used to facilitate burials.
Kazibwe called for a law that would limit burials to Saturday afternoons.
The former vice-president, whose address centred on the role of MPs in SACCOs and development, said Masaka district had taken her advice and most burials there were conducted in the evenings.
Kazibwe, a former National Resistance Movement MP of Kigulu in Iganga, noted that some legislators were using burials to boost their political standing, adding that it was not necessary.
"I get surprised whenever I hear of a politician who abandons office and attends a funeral. I never did that but the people of Kigulu used to give me votes whenever I contested for the parliamentary seat."
She wondered why she was not facilitated yet the Government was aiding Idi Amin's former vice-president, Mustafa Adris.
Kazibwe declined to comment further when asked by journalists to elaborate.
She also questioned why NGOs targeted illiterate women with no land as agents of food security.
The Government, she added, should ensure that all the land in the country was titled.
She pointed out that Buganda was the worst region in food production because "when you don't own a title, you can't say you own land."
She pointed out that having a large family was a liability in an agrarian economy.
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Present was the Government Chief, Whip, Kabakumba Masiko, the Opposition Chief Whip, Kassiano Wadri, the chairperson of the Parliamentary SACCO, Jane Akwero Odwong.
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