Kampala — Members of Parliament, are taking advantage of a constitutional provision that allows them to determine their emoluments to haemorrhage public resources and rip off already overburdened tax payers, a consortium of civil society organisations on budget matters, said yesterday.
The lawmakers, who number 459 in the 10th Parliament, have increased their allowances by 39 per cent and that of parliamentary staff by 15 per cent, citing increasing cost of living.
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