Despite the of the growing call by Ugandans to the Museveni government to design measures on how to fight poverty in the country, President Yoweri Museveni still lives a life of extravagance characterized by excessive expenditures on himself and his close allies.
The media early this week reported Museveni to have carried huge sums of money amounting to shs. 250 million in a polythene bag (Kavera) to the youth in the Busoga region purportedly for the youth groups to help them fight poverty.
The money was delivered the President himself, accompanied by the Minister for the Youth Ronald Kibuule and handed to the Busoga Youth Forum chairman, Mr Sanoni Bwire at Kaliro District headquarters on Saturday.
This act has however not gone well with Anti-corruption activists and the opposition political party leaders who described Museveni's act as "horrible"
They say Museveni is using the donations for bribe Ugandans ahead of the 2016 elections which are closing nearer.
Mr Wafula Oguttu, the spokesman of the country’s largest opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change, yesterday insinuated at a possible correlation between such donations and the ever increasing State House expenditure that has seen parliament tasked to approve supplementary budgets from the President's home, State House.
“The principle [of poverty alleviation] is fine but the government announced a scheme where the youth are supposed to get money through normal government procedures and not the president throwing money at the youth,” Mr Oguttu said.
Mr. Museveni's spokesperson has however defended the boss on allegations that the donation was a campaign ploy saying the opposition and civil society concerns are a sign of an “obsession with 2016.”
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