We shouldn’t clean up only when we get visitors
Oct 24, 2006
SIR — I rarely visit government ministries because of the unfortunate bureaucracies involved in obtaining any form of attention from the officers.
SIR — I rarely visit government ministries because of the unfortunate bureaucracies involved in obtaining any form of attention from the officers.
However, when I visited the building which houses the Prime Minister’s office, what I saw did not impress me. many of the lifts are either not functioning or have no buttons. almost all the doors have no locks and the walls are dirty.
The outside of the building is no better. One wonders whether any money is ever allocated for the renovation of such government buildings.
Some years after President Museveni took power, many government parastatals were sold off with the excuse that the government was not a good manager.
That was not a bad idea but ironically up to now, there is no improvement on government properties that are supposed to provide social services. The Prime Minister’s office is only one among the many buildings which need overhauling.
One day a friend went to the Magistrate’s Court
in Mengo and when he entered the toilets, they were simply unsightly. When he asked why he was told that the building belongs to the Kabaka! As CHOGM draws closer, emphasis should not be put on commercial buildings.
It is a great shame that we should think of cleaning up only when we have visitors.
Deo Tumusiime Kabwende Kampala
However, when I visited the building which houses the Prime Minister’s office, what I saw did not impress me. many of the lifts are either not functioning or have no buttons. almost all the doors have no locks and the walls are dirty.
The outside of the building is no better. One wonders whether any money is ever allocated for the renovation of such government buildings.
Some years after President Museveni took power, many government parastatals were sold off with the excuse that the government was not a good manager.
That was not a bad idea but ironically up to now, there is no improvement on government properties that are supposed to provide social services. The Prime Minister’s office is only one among the many buildings which need overhauling.
One day a friend went to the Magistrate’s Court
in Mengo and when he entered the toilets, they were simply unsightly. When he asked why he was told that the building belongs to the Kabaka! As CHOGM draws closer, emphasis should not be put on commercial buildings.
It is a great shame that we should think of cleaning up only when we have visitors.
Deo Tumusiime Kabwende Kampala