UGANDA: How Museveni's army officers "thrive on peanuts"

CHANGE OF GUARDS - "If we don't treat this impunity, one day someone will come and take over parliament and claim that it is his house - claiming that he fought in the bush. So this house directs Hon. Tumwine to pay off the rent but also to vacate because it is a public facility."

Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga - May 2018.

Gen. Tumwine is currently the Minister of Security and a top close Museveni confidant. He grabbed a public facility, Nommo Gallery and turned it into a personal facility using his company, Creations Ltd. Since 1998 he has defaulted on rent payment yet the government continued remitting hundreds of millions of tax payer's money annually under the Uganda National Cultural Centre.

Recently, he inaugurated his newly constructed countryside village villa in Kiruhura. Addressing the nation during the recent International Labour Day celebrations, Museveni castigated Ugandan Doctors who are demanding for a pay raise and improved working conditions. He cited the example of his soldiers whom he claimed serve for little or no pay. He said; "These soldiers have been fighting for no pay or low pay. Why don't they never go on strike?"

Gen. Tumwine's monthly salary in the army is below two million shillings. He has been a permanent Member of Parliament for over two decades. He was formerly the Army Chief, Director General External Security Organization (DG/ESO) and just like all other privileged Bush War fighters,  grabbed and continues to grab public property and resources.

The Speaker's warning comes barely a few days after the Museveni party (NRM) Deputy Secretary General, Richard Tadwong gave a similar warning. He told a religious conference thus; "....if we don't restrain, if we don't control our greed on how we use these public resources, how we steal with impunity, then Ugandans will push us out of power".

This development is another testimony of how Museveni's "soldiers have been fighting for no pay or low pay".

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM.