Where has Lyomoki been all this time?
Sep 16, 2010
EDITOR: I am angered by the way MP Sam Lyomoki wants to get undue credit for the proposed amendment of the 1985 NSSF Act.
EDITOR: I am angered by the way MP Sam Lyomoki wants to get undue credit for the proposed amendment of the 1985 NSSF Act.
All I have read and what I believe is true is that it is the workers' representatives on the NSSF board who have pushed this through and not Lyomoki's private member's Bill.
Lyomoki claims that the proposals in the ammendment Bill is synonymous with their private members Bill.
With all the noise which was being made in the media why has it taken Lyomoki all that time to present his Bill for discussion for all the years he has been in Parliament?
Instead of preparing a Bill which is similar to what is already done by the NSSF board, why didn't he spend his energy on campaigning for a minimum wage, for instance?
The truth is these so-called workers' MPS are elected in a very undemocratic way in workers' unions which don't function and perhaps represent only 20% of the workers.
I get irritated every time I hear people like Lyomoki being referred to as a workers' MP. Many of us actually do not know how they are elected as a big number of workers do not belong to any union.
MPs like Lyomoki spend more time on party politics than fighting for workers. The only struggles Lyomoki is involved in is for medical workers as if they constitutes the entire work force in the country.
Tema Kafeero Nansana, Wakiso
All I have read and what I believe is true is that it is the workers' representatives on the NSSF board who have pushed this through and not Lyomoki's private member's Bill.
Lyomoki claims that the proposals in the ammendment Bill is synonymous with their private members Bill.
With all the noise which was being made in the media why has it taken Lyomoki all that time to present his Bill for discussion for all the years he has been in Parliament?
Instead of preparing a Bill which is similar to what is already done by the NSSF board, why didn't he spend his energy on campaigning for a minimum wage, for instance?
The truth is these so-called workers' MPS are elected in a very undemocratic way in workers' unions which don't function and perhaps represent only 20% of the workers.
I get irritated every time I hear people like Lyomoki being referred to as a workers' MP. Many of us actually do not know how they are elected as a big number of workers do not belong to any union.
MPs like Lyomoki spend more time on party politics than fighting for workers. The only struggles Lyomoki is involved in is for medical workers as if they constitutes the entire work force in the country.
Tema Kafeero Nansana, Wakiso