By Richardo-John-Munyegera
In a country were the same car takes both diesel and petrol and at the same time this car was in Northern Uganda and South Western Uganda!
This calls for only God to believe whether the so called “Zero tolerance to corruption” campaign is just rhetoric to dupe us into something else not known. In fact it’s another one for almost political fame that, you also exist and you can say something.
We have seen ministers and super ministers very busy being thrown to courts of law and at the same time walking out clean as if nothing happened, only to sack those who reported such cases.
What about this impeached ministers back in the same cabinet after embezzling loads of shillings? Actually they have reached dollars and pounds or Euros. It’s not near to the truth in the country like that.
In a country were the police has been ordained as the corruption champions in the East and Central African region for taking bribes and effectively participating in corruption for the fourth time in a row basing on Transparency International’ reports – many of them are actually paid a small salary (peanuts) but that doesn’t resonate to the over involvement in corruption.
What’s much annoying is the Inspector General of Police to vehemently argue that, those reports are not true of what the Uganda police institution is. This he mentioned on 8th December 2015 again.
In Uganda, corruption and bribery scandals are almost intertwined to day and night. They follow each other synonymously and will always be there. In most cases this vice is the commonest attribute in almost all developing countries in exclusion of at least Kagame’s government of Rwanda or maybe the emerging President John Pombe Magufuli of Tanzania. In fact many Africans across the globe are saying that President Magufuli is not African and he’s going to be shunned by the rhetoric autocratic governments or regimes in the neighborhood that see Tanzania now as failing them in trying to maintain the corruption status quo.
President Museveni commissions the Katosi road project awarded to a ghost firm
Looking at this in such angles reveals the fact that, one need to assess who is who in a ministry or what can they do. It’s very easy for one to eat his or her own words over corruption issues. The moment you shun the thieves like what Tamale Mirundi refers to them or ‘Engalabbis’, you’re bound to fail because they have made a circle, therefore either you like or hate it, you must swing within their ranks. It’s complicated now in Uganda to name at least five ministers without corruption scandal or about to be named in one.
Even those in and out of the government are equally dirty as those within. One wonders who is fighting corruption here. For those chaps who used to organize the “Black Monday Campaign”, many of them became known self-seekers as well as opportunists in the same context. If one is de-campaigning something and practicing the other, then there are many questions which may stand in the way. If per say you’re Ricardo, how comes you tell the public that you’re against Ricardo? It’s a matter of who’s faster to bite the cake before the other eats it. Many of them in fact were buying time for political capital! If you don’t believe me, just check the TDA team.
That will be the challenge today and the future because we live in the world of denial. As we continue to love corruption beyond God the likely scenario ahead is the rich becoming richer as the poor get into the unprecedented levels of absolute poverty. For my colleagues in the job hunting zones, (I mean the unemployed youths) a lot is to be diagnosed there as it’s getting terribly problematic. It’s as if the jobs are also elusive like an incorrupt Ugandan.