CORRIDORS OF POWER
Aug 16, 2006
Who’s the culprit?<br>In accounting, they say there should never be errors in figures whatsoever, otherwise things go wrong. But finance minister Dr. Ezra’s could not effectively explain why his budget presentation had more than five instances where figures were not corresponding with those in
Who’s the culprit?
In accounting, they say there should never be errors in figures whatsoever, otherwise things go wrong. But finance minister Dr. Ezra’s could not effectively explain why his budget presentation had more than five instances where figures were not corresponding with those in the budget speech, the ministry statement and the budget estimates. When the MPs wondered which figures to approve, his officials would point at the highest figures prompting one economists in the committee to ask who prepared the figures for Suruma.
Mafabi wonders
FDC shadow finance minister Nandala Mafabi cannot tell what criteria the government uses to give money to investors. During the finance committee meeting he asked what criteria the government used to extend sh13b to businessman Hassan Basajjabalaba. “Basajjabala gets money and others don’t, is it because he is from… Before he completed the sentence, the MPs said, “Change and join the movement if you want money.†Mafabi could not believe it but he just nodded his head.
How soon?
It seems there’s something between shadow ministers and government ministers. Every time they are introduced, they waste no time to remind the ministers that they should worry because soon or later it will be them in the chairs. While meeting the water and environment minister Maria Mutagamba, FDC shadow minister Beatrice Atim after admiring the minister’s office, said, “I want that chair but I know soon it will be mine†leaving MPs wondering how soon.
Awori stuns MPs
The talk now at parliament is the surprise at how former Samia Bugwe North MP and UPC strongman Aggrey Awori is rumoured to be defecting to the NRM. “I heard the man on radio, I couldn’t believe that this was the man who was so critical of the government. He said, as a leader he had to follow what the people want. I found this very interesting,†one new MP told his colleagues at parliament on Thursday.
In accounting, they say there should never be errors in figures whatsoever, otherwise things go wrong. But finance minister Dr. Ezra’s could not effectively explain why his budget presentation had more than five instances where figures were not corresponding with those in the budget speech, the ministry statement and the budget estimates. When the MPs wondered which figures to approve, his officials would point at the highest figures prompting one economists in the committee to ask who prepared the figures for Suruma.
Mafabi wonders
FDC shadow finance minister Nandala Mafabi cannot tell what criteria the government uses to give money to investors. During the finance committee meeting he asked what criteria the government used to extend sh13b to businessman Hassan Basajjabalaba. “Basajjabala gets money and others don’t, is it because he is from… Before he completed the sentence, the MPs said, “Change and join the movement if you want money.†Mafabi could not believe it but he just nodded his head.
How soon?
It seems there’s something between shadow ministers and government ministers. Every time they are introduced, they waste no time to remind the ministers that they should worry because soon or later it will be them in the chairs. While meeting the water and environment minister Maria Mutagamba, FDC shadow minister Beatrice Atim after admiring the minister’s office, said, “I want that chair but I know soon it will be mine†leaving MPs wondering how soon.
Awori stuns MPs
The talk now at parliament is the surprise at how former Samia Bugwe North MP and UPC strongman Aggrey Awori is rumoured to be defecting to the NRM. “I heard the man on radio, I couldn’t believe that this was the man who was so critical of the government. He said, as a leader he had to follow what the people want. I found this very interesting,†one new MP told his colleagues at parliament on Thursday.