Corruption is Risky and Suicidal – President Museveni

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni warns newly elected Members of Parliament against corruption and Bribes in Parliament stating that the vice is suicidal and risky to their political careers.

While officiating at the closing ceremony of the National Resistance Movement Party Retreat which took place at his Ngoma farm today April 14th, President Museveni noted that Members of Parliament are meant to ensure oversight over government operations and ensure accountability as their core mandates but if they turn corrupt, they risk to fail themselves, their electorate and the country at large. 

The President highlighted previous corruption scandals in Parliament that led to the carrest of Hon Cissy Namujju the Lwengo District Woman Member of Parliament, the Busiki County MP Paul Akamba and Yusuf Mutembule of East County over syndicate corruption in Parliament against government entities.

President Museveni told new legislators that he has compiled proof of corruption scenarios in Parliament and other entities entities like he unearthed the rot in Masaka Parish Development Model appropriation.

The President ordered reprimand for both givers and receivers of bribes in public service as means to end corruption among leaders.

He noted that his investigations into Parliamentary operations revealed how committee members in Parliament had turned themselves into solicitors from government agencies’ budgets as a precondition to approve their budgetary appropriations until he reigned in and arrested the perpetrators.

President Museveni called the general public to desist and also report those soliciting for bribes and cautioned the newly elected legislators against the vice that he says will catch-up with both the givers and receivers of the bribes.

The President told newly Members of Parliament that government is enhancing institutionalized support for their operations as a counter intervention against corruption and asked them to fast track wealth creation as their primary focus.

President Museveni noted that those areas with the highest milk production have the least road infrastructural standards yet that hasn’t stopped them from engaging into wealth creation to earn income for their homesteads.

He urged Members of Parliament to look at the historical revolutionalisation of the cattle corridor to guide their electorate to emulate and prioritize wealth creation as government fasttracks development to their areas.

President Museveni recounted the historical landmark achievements of the NRM for Uganda and districts in the cattle corridor spanning from the NRM’s inception to power to date that he has rallied newly elected mp to keenly observe and replicate in their respective jurisdictions.

He however rejected the proposal by newly elected NRM MPs to partake of appointing processes for accounting officers that include Chief Administrative Officers, Resident District Commissioners and Permanent Secretaries among others.

This was part of the 5 thematic area resolutions from the NRM caucus read out by the NRM Secretary General Hon Richard Todwong during the closure of the week-long retreat at Kyankwanzi which included Ideological Alignment, Accountability Leadership and Public Service Reforms, Economy and Socialeconomic transformation, Legislative Oversight and Public Accountability, Institutional Alignment and Governance, Ideological Training and Capacity building and Anti corruption and Service Delivery.

During the same event, the Vice president Major Jesca Alupo Epel has reminded newly elected Members of Parliament on the task ahead of them to foster the tenfold national economic ambition to grow Uganda’s economic to US 500 billion dollars through their Parliamentary role.

Vice President Alupo noted that government is deliberate on monetisation of the economy to end subsistancehood and ensure that all households have sustainable income flows which is a responsibility of leaders to their electorate.

She commended Museveni for foster politics of interest as opposed to identity and acknowledged his success mark on socioeconomic transformation of the country 

Nakaseke District Leaders led by Nakaseke North Member of Parliament Prof Wilber Ahebwa revealed the strategy to organize area farmers for value addition on milk to optimize their earnings and returns on their farm yields.

Hon Ahebwa explained that the transformation witnessed by diary farmers in the greater Ngoma area for the past 20 years has boosted milk production per farm which guarantees the farmers dream to align to the values addition initiative for milk as a strategic initiative to further empower farmers 

Prof Ahebwa highlighted transformative interventions for the cattle corridor since their NRM government took power and explained plans by farmers in Ngoma – Nakaseke cattle corridor to establish feed lots to improving cattle grazing in their area and unveiled plans for a milk processing factory for value addition on milk in Ngoma and Nakaseke District at large.