By Dickens Okello Honeystraw
The Auditor General reports to Parliament not President or Chief Justice. And only Parliament has or superintendents over the audit of the Auditor General’s office expenditures.
Parliamentary Commission is composed of 90% NRM members including Prime Minister, Finance Minister and 3 backbenchers. How about the Speakers? They initiated the Parliament COVID-19 fight plan. It’s a fallacy to think that President Museveni is ready to sustain a war with his NRM dominated Parliament.
Remember Members of the Executive (Ministers) including class monitress (Gov’t Chief Whip) aren’t ready to return the money. In fact the motion to pass the supplementary without debate was moved by frontbench member, Isaac Musumba. Museveni isn’t ready to face them over only 10bn when LDUs are given 4.3bn only to distribute kawunga and beans in 3 districts and not even 40% has been covered in 3 weeks. He knows UPDF took additional 30bn, Police 37bn, Prisons 4.4bn, Intelligence 2.3bn and there wasn’t any clear expenditure plans but COVID-19 emergency. On top of 65m for each RDC, there’s also 7.6bn for their fuel.
Parliament has administrative leverage and legal arguments. It’s only the political and moral part of it. But again how many of you on social media are their block voters? Your social media arrogance is just another fallacy. Villagers are more important than most of you because they vote and don’t even lie to your selves that you’re better taxpayers. BMK, Sudhir, Mukwano (heir), Ham etc file daily tax of 200m and they don’t make noise anywhere.
Museveni hasn’t made any order or directive but advised. And I suspect he wanted to side with Parliament to kill the court case the next day. He knows it’s sub judice to discuss a matter before court but he did. Why?
The Writer is a journalist.
