After every five years, Ugandans go for election of President, Members of Parliament and LC V Chairpersons, Councillors, LC3s, LC2s and LC1s.
Virtually, it’s always the election of these top most influential positions that attract the attention of the Citizens in every general election.
Recently, the Media publicized a report after obtaining information from Hansard about the names of MPs who have spoken in plenary in the past one year since they were sworn in on May-2021.
Whether the Media reports also focused on the contributions of MPs through the Parliamentary Committee sittings or not, is a subject of debate for another day.
In Uganda, just like in any other African Country, for a Member of Parliament, President or LC to win an election, he or she has to make some pledges and promises designed as “Manifestos”.
The Media reports forgot to indicate that, all these MPs inclusive of those who spoke and those who didn’t speak in plenary in the past one year (May-2021 to May-2022) all got elected into those positions through manifestos but not their capabilities to speak or to remain silent.
In fact, each and every aspiring politician in these elective positions draft a fatty manifesto that would easily woo voters into supporting / voting for the candidate without sweet-talking them!
These remind me of former US President Abraham Lincoln’s speech who once said, “Politicians are funny people! They may promise to build a bridge where there is no River”.
Many of the deceitful political class will ride on that “manifestos” gear to gain mileage to get elected into such offices by decorating delicious manifestos.
However, the HELL breaks loose once they have won the election and are sworn into office, they begin to dodge being hold accountable to their promises (manifestos) by simply saying, their roles are stipulated in the Constitution, thus; legislation, budget, oversight blah blah.
Why did they make pledges, manifestos and promises to win the votes of people if they knew those are not their constitutional roles ?.
Greed has poisoned Human Soul!
And the souls that are poisoned by greed will stick to the Law as basis to justify their greed.
Therefore, if the New Vision , Red Pepper, Observer, Daily Monitor report on one year achievement of the MPs was for good intentions and also for the sake of relevance, they would have also publicized the achievement of the MPs in their various Constituencies and Districts in this one year (May-2021 to May-2022).
In our African culture, they say, a Cow that moos too much has no Milk.
I speak all these, For God and My Country.
DISCLAIMER.
These are my personal views and opinions alone!
They are not in anyway affiliated with or in the interest of any political party, any group or any individual or any organization or any company or any foreign entity i might have links and communications with.
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