They Said It...

‘I hear that those commissioners employ their relatives and use their vehicles to transport electoral materials. This is very serious. If this is true, then that is where their inefficiency starts,’President Yoweri Museveni criticising the Electoral Commission for the messy LC 3 elections, during a press conference at State House Nakasero.----------------------‘It remains to be seen whether the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) work shall lead to fundamental changes or be reduced to exercises in public relations.’Lady Justice Balungi Bossa, opening a conference on ‘Constitutionalism in Transition’ organised by Kituo Cha Katiba ----------------------‘How can the same person in-charge of national defence leak its secrets to the public? I get surprised to find some top secrets in the newspapers... but it must stop. I will not tolerate this during my tenure,’Amama Mbabazi, Minister for Defence speaking at the ministry’s end of year party that coincided with an article in The New Vision about a plan by the MOD to buy 60 trucks manufactured in 1960 at cost of sh50b. ----------------------‘Biotechnology is Biblical. When God created Adam and Eve, he just multiplied the cells from one tissue. There is nothing new and no fears should arise. We have only enhanced the speed of multiplication in modern times.’ Prof. Joseph Mukiibi (pictured left), the Director General of the National Agricultural Organisation (NARO) dismissing opposition to biotechnology by the Christian clergy and some scientists on ethical grounds.