Who sets Uganda's Priorities?
Of recent, we have been faced with all sorts of issues ranging from allowances for medical interns, cars and special funeral facilitation for MPs to teachers spending months without salaries. This country boasts of the National Development Plan which outlines seven priority areas which include, among others agriculture, infrastructure, and human resource development. What is puzzling is that we seem to consider priorities according to the whims of those who hold higher offices, not in public interest. I am surprised that government does not have money for medical interns whereas billions sit unspent on accounts of some state institutions; that teachers go for two months without salary yet some individuals are debating on how to own cars worth Shs 500m and have a ‘death’ package of Shs 68m. We are in a country where it is okay to buy medals, pay transport refund and treat medalists to a sumptuous meal but not okay to clear the heavy water bills slapped on crucial public institutions