ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

WE WANT ACTION AGAINST THIEVES NOW!

Fellow Citizens of Uganda:

The President of Uganda, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has over the years publically condemned corruption and promised zero tolerance to theft in public offices. This was supposed to be exemplified through the setup of the Anti-Corruption Court and the National Strategy to fight Corruption, the Directorate of Ethics and Integrity in the President’s Office, among other institutions put in place to fight corruption. What has emerged is that, we have too many institutions and yet we see no concrete action on corruption. Instead, the scandals keep unfolding day after day: Temangalo, CHOGM and the Ghost teachers, junk choppers, national Identity cards, KCC, NUSAF, NAADS, Global fund, Tri-star, school facility fund and the Ghost teachers, ghost pensioners, ghost doctors, ghost soldiers and many more!!

While we have lost 2 trillion shillings to theft, Uganda’s children continue to die of malaria, malnutrition, nodding disease and many other preventable diseases because our leaders and technocrats shamelessly loot with greed the money meant to provide medicine for our children. Our teachers sleep hungry and our children have no lunch in school, our policemen sleep like dogs and are paid peanuts, our doctors, nurses and midwives are underpaid, unpaid and on strike, our youth remain unemployed and helpless and we lose 16 of our mothers daily due to poor maternal health, while lots of money meant to address our plight as Ugandans is stolen day and night by individuals who time and again have been left scot free scandal after scandal. Why should innocent Ugandans pay with their lives for injustices perpetrated by publically known robbers, pickpockets, burglars and thieves? We are tired of losing Ugandans from preventable death. We want strong, decisive Action on thieves now!

We strongly believe there is enough for the needs of every Ugandan but not enough for the greed of public servants entrusted to manage resources responsibly for the good of all Ugandans. This unacceptably shameful, draconian, uncivil form of conduct must be stopped in the greater interest of ensuring meaningful development for all Ugandans.

Dear Ugandans, we can no longer stay silent, fearful and indifferent to the plight of our fellow Ugandans and the struggle many of us are going through just to survive. Moreover, our hard earned money is used to pay thieves for stealing from us! Unless WE, the affected stand up against this theft, nothing will change. The time is now to say - NO to Corruption. Let us stand together with individuals who are actively fighting theft and looting and add our Voices to theirs. We must demand that all individuals implicated in this grand corruption of wild theft, looting and stealing must with immediate effect:

• RESIGN FROM PUBLIC OFFICE
• RETURN OUR MONEY
• APOLOGISE TO UGANDANS LIKE HAS BEEN DONE TO THE IRISH GOVERNMENT FOR FAILING TO MANAGE NATIONAL RESOURCES RESPONSIBLY
• FACE TRIAL AND PUNISHMENT FOR THE CRIMES OF AGGRAVATED THEFT AND ABUSE OF OFFICE
• STOP STEALING FROM WE UGANDANS TO PAY FOR THIEVES!!

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Death Announcement

Mr. John Kakire Menya (RIP)

We are saddened to announce the untimely death of our Vice chairperson Mr. Kakaire John Menya who passed on the 30^th August 2012, he was laid to rest on Sunday 2^nd September 2012 at his ancestral home Bumpingu, Iganga District. Mr. Kaikaire is survived with a wife and three boys.

May your soul rest in eternal peace, we will miss u dearly.

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SMEs tipped on prevention of corruption.

Thursday 27 September 2012
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) must adhere to strict ethical practices like integrity, honesty and transparency if they are to curtail corruption in doing business.

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Uganda tops East Africa in corruption - reportPublish Date: Aug 30, 2012

By Francis Kagolo      
                                               
Uganda tops in corruption among the five countries under the East African community (EAC), a report by Transparency International has revealed.

The Eat African Bribery Index 2012 launched Thursday afternoon in Kampala ranks Tanzania and Kenya in second and third positions respectively.

Burundi was ranked fourth as Rwanda continues to record the best record in fighting corruption.

 A total of 9,303 respondents, mainly urban based and aged between 30 to 49 years, were sampled across the five countries in the survey conducted between March and May this year.

 Consequently, Uganda registered the highest bribery levels with a percentage value of 40.7%, while Tanzania had 39.1%, Kenya 29.5%. Burundi, the worst ranked country last year recorded a significantly lower index of 18.8% this year.

 With an aggregate index of 2.5%, Rwanda remained the least bribery-prone country in the region.

 In Uganda, police remains the top most corrupt institution followed by the judiciary, tax services and the land services sectors.

 Also vulnerable are the registry and licensing services, city and local councils, the health and education sectors.

Discussing the findings, anti-corruption experts attributed the problem in Uganda mainly to inadequate political will to fight corruption coupled with low salaries for civil servants.