CORRIDORS OF POWER

Mar 17, 2008

Suruma frustrated<br>MP Alice Alaso on Wednesday accused the finance ministry of behaving suspiciously when it comes to releasing money to different organizations. “When Parliament approves the budget for different organisations, you go and do your own things. Then you come back to us to rubber-s

Suruma frustrated
MP Alice Alaso on Wednesday accused the finance ministry of behaving suspiciously when it comes to releasing money to different organizations. “When Parliament approves the budget for different organisations, you go and do your own things. Then you come back to us to rubber-stamp it. How seriously do you take Parliament?” Alaso charged. Dr Ezra Suruma rose up furiously on a point of order. But to his dismay the microphone failed work.
He fidgeted with it for about five minutes until the Speaker of Parliament suspended the session for 10 minutes to have it repaired.

Nsibambi advises
Prime minister Apolo Nsibambi has not been happy with the hugs he has been getting from female MPs, especially those in the opposition who later turn out to attack the government. “When I am in the corridor I get greetings and a hug from my colleagues and think everything is okay. But when they enter the House they attack government. Do you think you can solve everything by raising it on the floor of Parliament,” he asked. He demanded that the female MPs should inform him of all the problems they face as they hug and chat. “We can solve some of these problems even if you don’t raise them in Parliament but inform me,” he said.

Ruhindi’s humour
Deputy attorney general Frederick Ruhindi was the guest of honour at the Makerere Law Society 11th Sir Udo Udoma Symposium. He looked cheerfully at the students in the lecture hall at the faculty of law. He told the students a joke about how an engineer was found by God constructing roads and buildings in Hell. When God asked that the engineer be brought to heaven, Satan refused. Then God threatened to sue Satan. But Satan said: “How can you sue me when all the lawyers are in hell?” Ruhindi then told the students he began feeling much younger by being with them.

CAO lectured
Ntungamo Woman MP Beatrice Rwakimari is very strict on accountability. “A river does not flow upwards on a hill. It flows downwards into a valley. likewise in accounts there must be a circulation flow of income with fixed and current assets with an asset register. We also need current expenditures,” she lectured the Sironko CAO, Sam Ogenrwoth, before the Parliamentary Local Government Accounts committee.

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