Today, while driving back from a meeting at the Uganda Child Rights NGO (UCRNN) in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, I heard on news that even the midwives are requesting to be exempted from paying national taxes. Well, considering the work that the midwives do - helping mothers deliver their babies....a matter of life and death, and considering the peanut salaries that they receive, particularly those working in government hospitals....etc, maybe the midwives can be exempted.
But....back to our selfish MPs...seriously? These guys first of all promised their voters all sorts of things, and never fulfill them claiming that there are no available funds in government. Now, if that is the case, what are they doing to ensure the government has more funds? How many trillions does Uganda spend annually? Where do these trillions go, because, they are not in hospitals, and neither are they in schools - given the horrible education standards at UPE/ USE schools (Government funded)? Well, Ugandan road network has improved greatly, so, yeah, we can say that its money well spend.
I really shouldn't talk much here considering my usual lack of interest in Ugandan politics.
But, these MPs have pissed me!
Their selfish suggestion will cause Uganda a loss of how many billions annually?...UGX49.464Bn! And how or where do they think this money will come from? are they aware of the already escalating national debt? Why do we even vote them in parliament? Weren't there other smarter, more people-focused candidates available? No wonder our president thinks Ugandans are stupid. If those are the best we can come up with, truthfully, then who is smarter than who? Where are all the smart, caring, people-focused leaders hiding?
Our dear Members of Parliament, while you fill your fat bellies with our hard earned monies, please remember that the people who voted you into that office can't even afford one meal a day for their families on average. This realization should motivate you to work hard to develop your communities and the nation at large. But if it doesn't, then you are truthfully the most selfish ......ever created! Sorry to say this.
This time round, am totally not impressed!
Oh God, please uphold our nation in your hands, and please defend the oppressed.
Like Mordecai told Esther in the Bible "Do not think that because you are in the King's house you alone of all the Ugandans will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Ugandans will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"
Oh Uganda, May God uphold thee!
For God and my Country!
