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.
Uganda’s children
continue to die of malaria, malnutrition, nodding disease and many other
preventable diseases while 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 at 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. 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 Action on Corruption.
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.
