Okello Lucima It is appalling how the Yoweri Museveni regime continues to get its priorities wrong. Uganda is a pan-handling nation-state. Despite its beggar status, it wants to spend over thirty billion shillings it does not have (EC wants Sh63b for 2006 election, The Monitor, 05, March 2005). All this spendthrift mood, while over 52% of its budget is scrounged from charitable governments in the West (UK aid cut pressures Uganda, BBC News, 29, April 2005; Aid: Govt blasts UK, The Monitor, 30, April 2005; and Britain blocks aid to Uganda, The Monitor, 29, April 2005). If there were a lack for where to spend this referendum money, 1.8 million of our citizen are internally displaced in concentration camps in northern Uganda. For their survival, the IDPs depend entirely on international humanitarian charities for their basic and daily needs (80% of IDPs are Women, Children, The Monitor, 19, April 2005; Encampment is NRM, LRA 11th point programme, commandme...
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