The ministry should be honest with Ugandans. Sh90bn is meant to purchase new equipment to fight LRA rebels, but not for professionalisation or standardisation of the UPDF.
The defence review process does not need urgent attention now. Moreover, this programme was scheduled to start in the 2004/06 financial year. The MOD needs all the support now, but that support should not be at expense of other ministries.
The secretary for defence should apologise for failing to make contingency plans for his ministry. Perhaps it is this adhoc way of conducting issues in the Ministry of Defence that has contributed to inefficiency in the UPDF.
Why is it that when the Ministry of Defence fails
to make accurate forecasts
of the security situation in
the country, it goes on
to disorganise other ministries?
E.F. Kahuma
Fort Portal
Ministry Of Defence Should Work Strictly Within Its Own Budget!
