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.
Dear Ugandans, we can no longer
stay silent, fearful and indifferent to the plight of our fellow
Ugandans. 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 WILD THEFT, LOOTING AND STEALING MUST WITH IMMEDIATE
EFFECT RESIGN FROM PUBLIC OFFICE AND FACE THE DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW AS
REGARDS THE CRIMES OF ABUSE OF OFFICE, MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS AND
TREASON.
• ALL MONIES LOST TO ROBERRY AND THEFT MUST IMMEDIATELY BE RECOVERED AND RETURNED TO THE NATIONAL TREASURY.
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GET INVOLVED AND DEMAND FOR ACTION ON CORRUPTION NOW!
Please join the National Anti-Corruption mourning days starting 12th - 14th November 2012 as we reaffirm our demands by:
• WEARING BLACK TO WORK: Wear black clothes to work between 12-14th in
loving memory of Ugandans who have lost their lives because of the
greed, theft, looting and stealing by their fellow countrymen and women.
We will also be symbolically mourning the death of Patriotism and
honesty in our leadership.
• DISPLAY A MESSAGE OF DISATISFACTION: We
urge all of you to display message of disappointment about the on going
corruption at the most visible part of your offices. The message
should be visible to everyone.
• CLOSE OFFICE FOR THREE DAYS .We
appeal to all NGOs in the country who are disappointed by the level of
theft to close down between 12-14th November 2012 to show their
dissatisfaction with a government that has neglected its duty to provide
services to its citizens in preference of protecting thieves and
robbers.
PLEASE GET INVOLVED. IT IS OUR COUNTRY, OUR MONEY, OUR PEOPLE.
