Following the recent vote of agreement in parliament that members of the house should be issued with atlaest 150m shs to purchase luxury cars to take them through the next five years. This is believed to cost the government about 64billion shillings.
When this landed on ears of the self-proclaimed Ghetto president Bobi Wine he objected saying there are lots of fundamentals needed by citizens of Uganda than feeding these 'hungry' politicians.
He argued that the money could atlaest be allocated to restrain the rotten hospitals in the country, pay teachers’ salaries and he further more said that if he was Parliament he would single handedly refute this it was called for.
"Okay with the state of our health sector, rotting schools and unpaid striking University staff, parliament has approved over 64billion shs of tax payers’ money to buy luxury cars for MPs each car going for about 150million. What hurts me is that when it gets to such eating bonanzas, there is no opposition or government. That is wrong and if I was in parliament I would strongly OBJECT IT and the reasons are simple; A good land cruiser that costs about 45 million shs would serve a whole five year term and even be donated afterwards possibly as a local ambulance in the constituency. If those cars were acquired through a centralized procurement, am sure they would even cost much less.
I have so many MP friends and every time I meet them, they're always in big cars coz many of them are high ranking government officials already having gov’t cars, others already have cars given to them in their previous term/s in parliament while others are successful business men and women. In my opinion, MPs should SERVE and not be SERVED By the voters. I really think ,MPs should be given double cabin pickup tracks coz they're durable and effective and if they want any luxury, they should use their own money to buy it (after all even their salary is too high).Like I said, IF I WAS IN PARLIAMENT, i would OBJECT!
#BikwaseKyagulanyi" posted Bobi Wine.