NSSF saga: It is the govt in the dock

Sep 03, 2009

EDITOR—What emerges in the NSSF affairs is the unfinished business of the Temangalo saga. The organisation is a seed-bed of graft! There should have been a commission of inquiry into the affairs of the NSSF and the finance minister then should have been

EDITOR—What emerges in the NSSF affairs is the unfinished business of the Temangalo saga. The organisation is a seed-bed of graft! There should have been a commission of inquiry into the affairs of the NSSF and the finance minister then should have been made to resign.

Instead, he was changed in a reshuffle, seemingly in anticipation of more revelations in the future. There would be another finance minister who, asked any questions about the saga, has to remain silent: kind of, “I was not the minister when all this was happening; ask other people.”

Whose decision was it to put the NSSF under Finance instead of Labour and what were the real or political reasons for doing so? Why are our laws too weak to deal with the corruption in the NSSF? Can it be that laws are as good as the people implementing them?

President Museveni’s era has introduced a culture of asking, “Is there a law about this?” or “Is there a policy about that?” Granted you need procedures, but it is possible to hit procedural paralysis, which is the case in Uganda today.
Rev Amos Kasibante
United Kingdom

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