When you
choose them to power, you have in mind that all your constituency's problems will
be brought to parliament and so expect a solution.And so you hope that... no, trust that they
will represent you well and make you heard…..but alas…..
It has been
a while, the last time we talked, I Had Beef With Chogm and everything that
came and went with it…Now I have beef with MPs. Ugandan Members of
Parliament that is, not my Monthly Periods…. At least those I have learnt to live with. Anyway, I
can not begin to list the MPs' names because you must know them, you have one or
two in your constituency.
In the
world of MPs, there is no one righteous, no not one.They all are pretty much the same greedy,
selfish characters.Last year, the hot
topic of discussion in Parliament was that of each member getting at least
60million Uganda shillings for new vehicles, the
irony was that the Parliament parking was always lined up with landcruisers and
latest models of cars.While other
countries’ MPs discuss corruption, hunger, poverty, incompetence, unemployment, global warming, the Ugandan MPs were busy debating about getting
new cars….bargaining for material gain and comfort forgetting the poor who put
them in power.
Notice how
these M’s crave for cheap publicity for the need of their cars…one shamelessly
got on radio to cry for the money to fund their new machines.She said, “Every time I go to Bugiri with my
small car, do you know what the people there ask me? They say, ‘where is the
60million car because we want you to come here as an MP.’Hmmm leaving up to her status, MP.
I guess
being an MP is supposed to be the flashiest job, whereby they don’t sweat their
butts but rather warm the parliamentary pews to either have a siesta or shout
about arguments like primary school kids ….yet most of the time these arguments
have no value for the country. I know this because I have watched many a
parliament session on TV.
Still on
crying for money for all the wrong reasons, hospitals lack medicine, not enough
salaries for government school teachers, rising crime rate, general poverty, the police and SPC living in squalid conditions but these supposedly
voices of the people don’t seem to notice that, they close their eyes and see
what they want to see, and that is their own needs.They don’t remember the promises they made
to the voter because they only want to remember what is important to them and
that is their greed.
Anyway, I
have beef with politics where only the liars and the greedy survive.
