IT ALL STARTED WITH
ROBBING BANKS DURING THE BUSH WAR, NOW BILLIONS CAN BE STOLEN AND LIFE
CONTINUES ON NORMALLY!
I AM NOT SO
SURPRISED THAT 34 YEARS AFTER NRM WENT TO BUSH UGANDA FEATURES BADLY ON MOST
FRONTS IN EAST AFRICA
If President
Museveni really had Uganda at heart, he would retire this time. It is so sad what is going on in Uganda on a
number of fronts. Recently someone said that Rwanda is really doing right as
regards the economy strategies, yet many of the brains they have are Makerere
graduates! It is not wrong to say that
President Museveni is the country’s problem.
If he were to leave the seat peacefully, chances are that people can
come up to do state matters in a more professional way as compared to the
gambles we see all aimed at the priority of seeing him retain state power!
It is absurd to
hear what Hon. C. Kiyonga has told the MPs before having his Defense Ministry
budget approved. How can Uganda spend so
many billions in South Sudan when Public servants are going without pay for
months? The suppliers to Government are only waiting to have their assets
auctioned. Billions of taxpayer money is
allegedly also spent in Somalia! How can
this be? When did Uganda colonize all
these areas to have the Ugandan taxpayer responsible to meet the financial
obligations there as the Ugandans languish in terrible poverty? Even today, health conditions that would be
handled here have to be referred to Kenya hospitals and others to India to
mention a few!
There are so many
things we have put input into free of charge to Government, but what surprises are
the options that Government takes most of the time. They are unprofessional. I took my time since 2001 to come up with a
sustainable educational scheme. All my
efforts were to waste until I resigned.
This year (2014) Uganda Government is implementing an ill advised loan
scheme which is after helping only those doing Science combinations, and it will
be a miracle that the scheme is sustainable, at least in the short term before
the oil revenues come in. We have
advised Government to do away with Government sponsorship of the so – called
excelling students given that it is simply not human a scheme as majority of
the beneficiaries are children from well to do families, and a number of them
have benefitted from cheating to pass exams the reason that the School of Law
opted to start entry exams to get the chaff out. On humanitarian terms, and given that
Government has no law to ensure that those who benefit from free education do
serve Government, and even if it were to have such a law, many of the graduates
have nowhere to be employed, hence the reason they have to look for
opportunities out of the country. At
least this year’s admissions would have seen the Government sponsorship
scrapped so that all students instead pay a lower tuition, and this would lead
to lower tuition fees yet better remuneration to staff and improved
infrastructure at the public Universities.
Unfortunately, our people in Government don’t see sense in this
arrangement; they are better off seeing many more students fail to join the
University and or drop by the way side!
I have been
involved with registering a school in Uganda.
You wonder whether anybody is in control. There is a lot of bureaucracy and to get
through, one has to part with money all the time. It starts with the Health report from the Sub
– county. This has to be paid for. The District Inspector’s report has to be
paid for, and in all these instances, at least shs 50,000 – fifty
thousand. Once you a ready with the
documents, at least I have met a lady at the District with a lineup of who has
to be paid and how much. One says the D.
E. O shs 100,000, the D. I. S shs 50,000, the NEMA person shs 50,000, the
License shs 50,000. All this is the
picture of things gone wrong. The question is whether anybody is bothered about
this state of affairs. Whenever you try
to plead with some of these people say about the charges, they simply make life
impossible, and in any case it becomes impossible fighting corruption because
you suffer terrible penalties.
That is not
all. The developments where people are
hearing about dubious companies taking up contracts worth so many billions are
simply unacceptable that a Head of state instead of cleaning these, he decides
to look to taxpayer funds to clean his image.
It is simply absurd.
At this moment, the
best President Museveni can do is to leave power peacefully so that people try
to make the situation better. The
unemployment levels are simply unacceptable, yet Government continues to
accumulate local and foreign debt. Even
the few people who would be in business will have their businesses collapse as
Government fails to pay and the assets of these people have to eventually face
the axe to recover funds lent. You can
imagine the services that can be expected of public servants when for months
they don’t get pay!
In 2006, President Yoweri Museveni announced a policy of zero-tolerance
to corruption. However, at the beginning of Museveni’s third term following the
first
Multi-party elections, most governance indicators showed that
corruption was perceived as widespread and endemic at all levels of society. The Global
Integrity’s 2006 report on the
country estimated that more than half the government’s annual budget was lost
to corruption each year, amounting to USD 950 million. Reports to – date indicate that corruption is
simply growing. What is exposed is a
sorry state of affairs, and one wonders whether the President is any serious
when he talks about zero tolerance to corruption.
Things are really
bad that if President Museveni had the country at heart he would look for the
exit so that the country starts afresh.
It is simply so saaaaad.
Kituuka
Wednesday, 13 August 2014 08:46
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Clearing image: President Yoweri Museveni
Mercury Public Affairs LLC, an American
public relations consultancy firm, has been hired by State House to
transform the image of President Museveni and promote Uganda’s global
trade interests.
The firm is to be paid a total of
$600,000 (approximately Shs 1.56 billion) for the duration of one year.
News of the contract was first broken by BuzzFeed, a respected online
news aggregator and blog in the United States.
BuzzFeed based its report on federal
disclosure filings made by Mercury Public Affairs LLC to the US
Department of Justice on July 30, 2014 at 5:50pm. According to the
filings, the agreement took effect on July 19 and expires on July 18,
2015.
Kirill Goncharenko, the president of
Mercury Public Affairs LLC, signed on behalf of the firm while Lucy
Nakyobe Mbonye, the State House comptroller, signed on behalf of State
House. The deal was finalised weeks before President Museveni travelled
to Washington DC to attend the US-Africa Leaders Summit last week. It is
unclear if the PR contract was necessitated by the negative
international publicity arising from President Museveni’s signing into
law of the now nullified Anti-Homosexuality Act in February this year.
The law was annulled by the
Constitutional court on August 1 for having been passed without quorum
in parliament. On Monday, President Museveni urged NRM legislators
pushing for its enactment to tread carefully.
The agreement
According to the 10-page agreement seen
by The Observer, some of Mercury’s tasks will include “managing media
relations”. Among other assignments, the firm will “monitor coverage of
President Museveni as well as the country as a whole.”
Mercury Public Affairs LLC will also
provide consulting and communications services, promote trade and
investment opportunities in Uganda while developing special initiatives
such as the “Uganda Enterprise Empowerment Initiative” (UEEI).
Other services to be rendered by Mercury Public Affairs LLC shall include:
Managing media relations and monitoring all media globally with an emphasis on USA. This includes print, digital for coverage of the president and the republic of Uganda.
Disseminate information about Uganda using all available avenues, documents and report these publications, documentaries and stories to the press unit of the president/office of the press secretary to ensure regular and updated briefings to the presidency.
Managing media relations and monitoring all media globally with an emphasis on USA. This includes print, digital for coverage of the president and the republic of Uganda.
Disseminate information about Uganda using all available avenues, documents and report these publications, documentaries and stories to the press unit of the president/office of the press secretary to ensure regular and updated briefings to the presidency.
“Where possible some of these reports
will be circulated widely in the local media using the State House
portal,” the agreement partly reads.
State House was expected to make a down
payment of $150,000 (Shs 390m) upon the signing of the agreement.
Thereafter State House is supposed to make a monthly payment of $50,000
(Shs 130 million).
Mercury Public Affairs LLC
Headquartered in New York, Mercury
Public Affairs LLC (www.mercuryllc.com) is part of the Omnicom Group
Inc., a leading global advertising and marketing communications services
company. It describes itself as a high-stakes public strategy firm. The
firm says it uses expertise and reach to gain competitive advantage for
clients.
“Our expertise comes from extensive
must-win campaign experience and operating successfully at the highest
rung of business, government, politics and media.
“Our reach is the ability to use strategic intelligence to mobilise the message and persuade the toughest audiences,” the firm says.
“Our reach is the ability to use strategic intelligence to mobilise the message and persuade the toughest audiences,” the firm says.
The firm further says it has advised and executed successful election and public affairs campaigns on five continents.
“We are successful because we don’t
guess. Through market research, we ensure local knowledge and cultural
understanding. Then we combine those insights with strategic practices —
such as positioning, branding, social media, digital communication and
grassroots mobilization — to achieve wins for our clients.”
One of the partners of the company is
Vin Weber, a former Republican congressman and campaign adviser to Mitt
Romney, who was defeated by Barack Obama in the last US election.
Mercury Public Affairs LLC is not the first international public
relations firm to be contracted to shore up the image of the Ugandan
government or that of President Museveni.
The Observer reported in 2005 that
government had paid Hill & Knowlton, a London-based firm, Shs 1.6
billion to polish the image of the Ugandan government, which had been
stained by a poor human rights record and a restrictive political
environment.
The PR firm had itself been criticised
in the past for working with governments such as Indonesia and Turkey,
whose human rights records were suspect. Later in 2012, the government
paid an Irish firm, Glenevin Operational Risk and Security Consultancy,
Shs 2.3bn to clean up its image, which had been dented by the opposition
walk-to-work protests.
Asked to comment on the development yesterday, Nakyobe said: “I cannot comment about anything.”ekiggundu@observer.ug
Defence Ministry To Seek More Funds For UPDF Stay In South Sudan
Defence Minister Crispus Kiyonga has noted that the defence ministry will need to meet additional expenditures in order to sustain Ugandan troops in South Sudan.
Defense Minister Crispus Kiyonga
Kiyonga was appearing before Parliament’s Defence and Internal Affairs Committee chaired by Mubende Woman MP Benny Namugwanya for the consideration of the Defence Ministry financial year 2014/2015 ministerial policy statement.
Kiyonga had been tasked by the Committee to explain why no indication had been made in the ministry’s financial year budget on operations in South Sudan, the cost implication of the South Sudan expedition, the contribution of IGAD on the operations and when UPDF was pulling out.
Kiyonga explained that in the 2014/2015 F/Y budget proposal no provision had been made for sustaining UPDF troops in South Sudan because at the time when the ministry was preparing the budget, they had expected that the troops would have pulled back by this financial year.
CDF Katumba Wamala adressing UPDF soldiers in South Sudan
He said that the troops have not pulled back as anticipated because they went there to prevent possible genocide in South Sudan and that they plan to leave when there is an alternative force to take care of that situation.
Kiyonga noted that currently there are troops being deployed in South Sudan under IGAD citing those of Kenya and Ethiopia which he said UPDF has to first harmonize with.
“Once we know they are in place and effective, then our troops will return and that means therefore we will have to continue to do some additional expenditure in order to sustain our forces in South Sudan”, Kiyonga noted.
Kigulu South MP Milton Muwuma noted that the issue of defence ministry not making a budget provision for UPDF troops in South Sudan cannot apply since parliament does not work in anticipation and that this may mean a supplementary request which has kept denting the image of the defence sector.
In the last financial year 2013/2014, UPDF received a supplementary funding of 170billion and of this 25.1billion was to support the UPDF operations in South Sudan. The committee asked the defence ministry to give a break down on how the total 170billion supplementary was spent and the 25.1billion in South Sudan.
According to the breakdown provided by the Defence Ministry to the Committee of 170billion supplementary, the ministry spent 30.7billion on food; 85billion was classified expenditure, 25.1billion on Operations in South Sudan, 9.9billion on Fuel-Land forces, 12.9billion on fuel air force, 2.5billion on travel abroad, 1billion on treatment abroad and 2.6billion on medical (hospital bills).
In addition, in the 2013/2014 financial year Defence Ministry had an approved budget 1trillion shillings.
Defence Minister Kiyonga provided the Defence Committee with a breakdown of the costs provided to the UPDF troops in South Sudan from January 2014 to March 2014 to which the supplementary of 25.1billion was provided.
Some of the items on which the money was spent include Fuel and Lubricants 2billion, Hot meals 1.7billion, accommodation items 2.2billion, clothing 3.9billion, hired transport 5.1billion, Fuel JET 4.4billion, evacuation of civilians from South Sudan 2.3billion and others.
Meanwhile, MPS sitting on the Defence and internal affairs Committee have come out to contest the figures provided by the Defence Ministry to the Committee saying that the money government has spent in South Sudan must be more than what has been provided.
Hassan Kaps Fungaro, the Shadow Minister for Defence and Security said that the expenditures are under declared saying that there are a lot of off budget funding which are never declared and that the defence ministry has a smart way of hiding the expenditures under classified expenditure.
He cited that in every security sector citing defence, police, ISO and others most of the expenditures are now hidden under classified expenditure saying that the security sector needs to be reformed and all the security institutions be put under one ministry citing the Ministry of Defence and security so that the budget is under one ministry and Parliament improves its oversight role.
Kyadondo East MP Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda says that the figures provided to the committee are false saying that according to his calculation the tax payer parts with more than 300million shillings per day on Troops in South Sudan and over 500million shillings per day for Ugandan Troops to stay in Somalia.
He questioned why Parliament keeps passing money for the country’s troops to fight in other countries citing that the country’s performance in terms of infrastructure according to the worldbank reports is at 29% having an infrastructure gap of about 71%.
He noted that a country that cannot sort out its infrastructure needs cannot be passing money evert year for its army to fight in another country.
Defence Minister Crispus Kiyonga has noted that the defence ministry will need to meet additional expenditures in order to sustain Ugandan troops in South Sudan.
Defense Minister Crispus Kiyonga
Kiyonga was appearing before Parliament’s Defence and Internal Affairs Committee chaired by Mubende Woman MP Benny Namugwanya for the consideration of the Defence Ministry financial year 2014/2015 ministerial policy statement.
Kiyonga had been tasked by the Committee to explain why no indication had been made in the ministry’s financial year budget on operations in South Sudan, the cost implication of the South Sudan expedition, the contribution of IGAD on the operations and when UPDF was pulling out.
Kiyonga explained that in the 2014/2015 F/Y budget proposal no provision had been made for sustaining UPDF troops in South Sudan because at the time when the ministry was preparing the budget, they had expected that the troops would have pulled back by this financial year.
CDF Katumba Wamala adressing UPDF soldiers in South Sudan
He said that the troops have not pulled back as anticipated because they went there to prevent possible genocide in South Sudan and that they plan to leave when there is an alternative force to take care of that situation.
Kiyonga noted that currently there are troops being deployed in South Sudan under IGAD citing those of Kenya and Ethiopia which he said UPDF has to first harmonize with.
“Once we know they are in place and effective, then our troops will return and that means therefore we will have to continue to do some additional expenditure in order to sustain our forces in South Sudan”, Kiyonga noted.
Kigulu South MP Milton Muwuma noted that the issue of defence ministry not making a budget provision for UPDF troops in South Sudan cannot apply since parliament does not work in anticipation and that this may mean a supplementary request which has kept denting the image of the defence sector.
In the last financial year 2013/2014, UPDF received a supplementary funding of 170billion and of this 25.1billion was to support the UPDF operations in South Sudan. The committee asked the defence ministry to give a break down on how the total 170billion supplementary was spent and the 25.1billion in South Sudan.
According to the breakdown provided by the Defence Ministry to the Committee of 170billion supplementary, the ministry spent 30.7billion on food; 85billion was classified expenditure, 25.1billion on Operations in South Sudan, 9.9billion on Fuel-Land forces, 12.9billion on fuel air force, 2.5billion on travel abroad, 1billion on treatment abroad and 2.6billion on medical (hospital bills).
In addition, in the 2013/2014 financial year Defence Ministry had an approved budget 1trillion shillings.
Defence Minister Kiyonga provided the Defence Committee with a breakdown of the costs provided to the UPDF troops in South Sudan from January 2014 to March 2014 to which the supplementary of 25.1billion was provided.
Some of the items on which the money was spent include Fuel and Lubricants 2billion, Hot meals 1.7billion, accommodation items 2.2billion, clothing 3.9billion, hired transport 5.1billion, Fuel JET 4.4billion, evacuation of civilians from South Sudan 2.3billion and others.
Meanwhile, MPS sitting on the Defence and internal affairs Committee have come out to contest the figures provided by the Defence Ministry to the Committee saying that the money government has spent in South Sudan must be more than what has been provided.
Hassan Kaps Fungaro, the Shadow Minister for Defence and Security said that the expenditures are under declared saying that there are a lot of off budget funding which are never declared and that the defence ministry has a smart way of hiding the expenditures under classified expenditure.
He cited that in every security sector citing defence, police, ISO and others most of the expenditures are now hidden under classified expenditure saying that the security sector needs to be reformed and all the security institutions be put under one ministry citing the Ministry of Defence and security so that the budget is under one ministry and Parliament improves its oversight role.
Kyadondo East MP Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda says that the figures provided to the committee are false saying that according to his calculation the tax payer parts with more than 300million shillings per day on Troops in South Sudan and over 500million shillings per day for Ugandan Troops to stay in Somalia.
He questioned why Parliament keeps passing money for the country’s troops to fight in other countries citing that the country’s performance in terms of infrastructure according to the worldbank reports is at 29% having an infrastructure gap of about 71%.
He noted that a country that cannot sort out its infrastructure needs cannot be passing money evert year for its army to fight in another country.
Defence Ministry To Seek More Funds For UPDF Stay In South Sudan
By: Our Reporter
Defence Minister Crispus Kiyonga has noted that the defence ministry will need to meet additional expenditures in order to sustain Ugandan troops in South Sudan.
Defense Minister Crispus Kiyonga
Kiyonga was appearing before Parliament’s Defence and Internal Affairs Committee chaired by Mubende Woman MP Benny Namugwanya for the consideration of the Defence Ministry financial year 2014/2015 ministerial policy statement.
Kiyonga had been tasked by the Committee to explain why no indication had been made in the ministry’s financial year budget on operations in South Sudan, the cost implication of the South Sudan expedition, the contribution of IGAD on the operations and when UPDF was pulling out.
Kiyonga explained that in the 2014/2015 F/Y budget proposal no provision had been made for sustaining UPDF troops in South Sudan because at the time when the ministry was preparing the budget, they had expected that the troops would have pulled back by this financial year.
CDF Katumba Wamala adressing UPDF soldiers in South Sudan
He said that the troops have not pulled back as anticipated because they went there to prevent possible genocide in South Sudan and that they plan to leave when there is an alternative force to take care of that situation.
Kiyonga noted that currently there are troops being deployed in South Sudan under IGAD citing those of Kenya and Ethiopia which he said UPDF has to first harmonize with.
“Once we know they are in place and effective, then our troops will return and that means therefore we will have to continue to do some additional expenditure in order to sustain our forces in South Sudan”, Kiyonga noted.
Kigulu South MP Milton Muwuma noted that the issue of defence ministry not making a budget provision for UPDF troops in South Sudan cannot apply since parliament does not work in anticipation and that this may mean a supplementary request which has kept denting the image of the defence sector.
updf2
In the last financial year 2013/2014, UPDF received a supplementary funding of 170billion and of this 25.1billion was to support the UPDF operations in South Sudan. The committee asked the defence ministry to give a break down on how the total 170billion supplementary was spent and the 25.1billion in South Sudan.
According to the breakdown provided by the Defence Ministry to the Committee of 170billion supplementary, the ministry spent 30.7billion on food; 85billion was classified expenditure, 25.1billion on Operations in South Sudan, 9.9billion on Fuel-Land forces, 12.9billion on fuel air force, 2.5billion on travel abroad, 1billion on treatment abroad and 2.6billion on medical (hospital bills).
In addition, in the 2013/2014 financial year Defence Ministry had an approved budget 1trillion shillings.
Defence Minister Kiyonga provided the Defence Committee with a breakdown of the costs provided to the UPDF troops in South Sudan from January 2014 to March 2014 to which the supplementary of 25.1billion was provided.
Some of the items on which the money was spent include Fuel and Lubricants 2billion, Hot meals 1.7billion, accommodation items 2.2billion, clothing 3.9billion, hired transport 5.1billion, Fuel JET 4.4billion, evacuation of civilians from South Sudan 2.3billion and others.
Meanwhile, MPS sitting on the Defence and internal affairs Committee have come out to contest the figures provided by the Defence Ministry to the Committee saying that the money government has spent in South Sudan must be more than what has been provided.
Hassan Kaps Fungaro, the Shadow Minister for Defence and Security said that the expenditures are under declared saying that there are a lot of off budget funding which are never declared and that the defence ministry has a smart way of hiding the expenditures under classified expenditure.
updf3
He cited that in every security sector citing defence, police, ISO and others most of the expenditures are now hidden under classified expenditure saying that the security sector needs to be reformed and all the security institutions be put under one ministry citing the Ministry of Defence and security so that the budget is under one ministry and Parliament improves its oversight role.
Kyadondo East MP Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda says that the figures provided to the committee are false saying that according to his calculation the tax payer parts with more than 300million shillings per day on Troops in South Sudan and over 500million shillings per day for Ugandan Troops to stay in Somalia.
He questioned why Parliament keeps passing money for the country’s troops to fight in other countries citing that the country’s performance in terms of infrastructure according to the worldbank reports is at 29% having an infrastructure gap of about 71%.
He noted that a country that cannot sort out its infrastructure needs cannot be passing money evert year for its army to fight in another country.
By: Our Reporter
Defence Minister Crispus Kiyonga has noted that the defence ministry will need to meet additional expenditures in order to sustain Ugandan troops in South Sudan.
Defense Minister Crispus Kiyonga
Kiyonga was appearing before Parliament’s Defence and Internal Affairs Committee chaired by Mubende Woman MP Benny Namugwanya for the consideration of the Defence Ministry financial year 2014/2015 ministerial policy statement.
Kiyonga had been tasked by the Committee to explain why no indication had been made in the ministry’s financial year budget on operations in South Sudan, the cost implication of the South Sudan expedition, the contribution of IGAD on the operations and when UPDF was pulling out.
Kiyonga explained that in the 2014/2015 F/Y budget proposal no provision had been made for sustaining UPDF troops in South Sudan because at the time when the ministry was preparing the budget, they had expected that the troops would have pulled back by this financial year.
CDF Katumba Wamala adressing UPDF soldiers in South Sudan
He said that the troops have not pulled back as anticipated because they went there to prevent possible genocide in South Sudan and that they plan to leave when there is an alternative force to take care of that situation.
Kiyonga noted that currently there are troops being deployed in South Sudan under IGAD citing those of Kenya and Ethiopia which he said UPDF has to first harmonize with.
“Once we know they are in place and effective, then our troops will return and that means therefore we will have to continue to do some additional expenditure in order to sustain our forces in South Sudan”, Kiyonga noted.
Kigulu South MP Milton Muwuma noted that the issue of defence ministry not making a budget provision for UPDF troops in South Sudan cannot apply since parliament does not work in anticipation and that this may mean a supplementary request which has kept denting the image of the defence sector.
updf2
In the last financial year 2013/2014, UPDF received a supplementary funding of 170billion and of this 25.1billion was to support the UPDF operations in South Sudan. The committee asked the defence ministry to give a break down on how the total 170billion supplementary was spent and the 25.1billion in South Sudan.
According to the breakdown provided by the Defence Ministry to the Committee of 170billion supplementary, the ministry spent 30.7billion on food; 85billion was classified expenditure, 25.1billion on Operations in South Sudan, 9.9billion on Fuel-Land forces, 12.9billion on fuel air force, 2.5billion on travel abroad, 1billion on treatment abroad and 2.6billion on medical (hospital bills).
In addition, in the 2013/2014 financial year Defence Ministry had an approved budget 1trillion shillings.
Defence Minister Kiyonga provided the Defence Committee with a breakdown of the costs provided to the UPDF troops in South Sudan from January 2014 to March 2014 to which the supplementary of 25.1billion was provided.
Some of the items on which the money was spent include Fuel and Lubricants 2billion, Hot meals 1.7billion, accommodation items 2.2billion, clothing 3.9billion, hired transport 5.1billion, Fuel JET 4.4billion, evacuation of civilians from South Sudan 2.3billion and others.
Meanwhile, MPS sitting on the Defence and internal affairs Committee have come out to contest the figures provided by the Defence Ministry to the Committee saying that the money government has spent in South Sudan must be more than what has been provided.
Hassan Kaps Fungaro, the Shadow Minister for Defence and Security said that the expenditures are under declared saying that there are a lot of off budget funding which are never declared and that the defence ministry has a smart way of hiding the expenditures under classified expenditure.
updf3
He cited that in every security sector citing defence, police, ISO and others most of the expenditures are now hidden under classified expenditure saying that the security sector needs to be reformed and all the security institutions be put under one ministry citing the Ministry of Defence and security so that the budget is under one ministry and Parliament improves its oversight role.
Kyadondo East MP Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda says that the figures provided to the committee are false saying that according to his calculation the tax payer parts with more than 300million shillings per day on Troops in South Sudan and over 500million shillings per day for Ugandan Troops to stay in Somalia.
He questioned why Parliament keeps passing money for the country’s troops to fight in other countries citing that the country’s performance in terms of infrastructure according to the worldbank reports is at 29% having an infrastructure gap of about 71%.
He noted that a country that cannot sort out its infrastructure needs cannot be passing money evert year for its army to fight in another country.
