Why not cut a slack for the poor?

Evidently the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) was given a lot more than it could chew that they had to even take back funds to the treasury because they were “lying idle”.

Question though, did they do anything with the money?

NO
, the money was too much that it made them go blind to its usefulness – make Ugandans better roads. Utmost irresponsibility, negligence of order one and no patriotism at all mixed with a lot of love for fulfilling their stomachs.

According to the Daily Monitor they returned USh226billion. Notice the b not m for million.
Reasons they gave back the sums?
They did not know the roads to work on as so said the UNRA boss, Eng. Peter Ssebanakitta blatantly. He also said it was an abnormality for the government to give UNRA more than what it needed.

Why did they even accept it in the first place if it was abnormal money?

Try breaking down the money by dividing according to the basic needs and see what it can do for the people living in abject poverty. They will probably have enough to go on for years.

Why not give it to them if it is just lying idle and the purpose for which it is to be used is not fulfilled, because we continue to have pot bellied roads and no roads at all to speak of in some areas.

Madam talks of the returns as going to other ministries to cater for needy sectors which she does not care to identify. Misusing money in such a way (not actually using it for what it is intended) and you do not offer viable reasons for the public says a lot.

Probably she does not care what Ugandans thoughts are on the issue and she is being a little Hitler. “Too much money was given to the UNRA without adequate planning.” Reasoning for a lazy being avoiding crucification! Who gave them the money?

She probably needs a press secretary to write her speeches. What she said seemed like gloating at UNRA’s failure because she is the one in charge, with her ministry officials.

Now she remembers getting foreigners and getting the off load off the UNRA people. In her own words, “We had overrated the capacity of UNRA when we assigned them the role of fixing roads. So we are beefing them up by contracting foreign support.”

Hullo!

It gets worse, let us just yawn as Ugandans and bow for the riders, in an August letter he wrote to Ms Bbumba, Works Minister Eng. John Nasasira sought to acquire over Ush1 trillion to make better roads and offered sketchy excuses for UNRA’s poor management or the lack of it in executing the funds.

Someone do the maths please. Over Ush226 billion is returned because it was too much, no roads to repair were seen, areas needing new roads were absent, blah blah and more blah, now trillions not billions and definitely not millions are needed to do what was not done with the abnormal money.

Do these roads people just want to go mad with hefty sums of money in sight? Well, shrinks and psychologists are available.