{"id":25464,"date":"2022-01-30T19:21:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T19:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=25464"},"modified":"2022-01-30T19:05:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T19:05:59","slug":"dont-set-bad-precedence-with-bou-house-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/dont-set-bad-precedence-with-bou-house-giveaway","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t set bad precedence with BoU house giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>On Thursday, Bukooli Central MP Solomon Silwany proposed that the official residence of the governor of Bank of Uganda be donated to the family of the late Governor Tumusiime-Mutebile, who passed on last Sunday.<\/p>\n

Mr Silwany argued that Mutebile, who according to a leaked May 2015 report of Parliament Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (Cosase) was the highest paid government employee with a monthly salary of Shs53.3 million, lived a modest life, did not use his office to amass personal wealth and served as governor for such a long time, may have left the family with nowhere to go. He said it would be good if Parliament supported the family to get a befitting home.<\/p>\n

It was a bizarre argument that surprisingly enjoyed the support of the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Ms Anita Among, and a host of other legislators who should know better.<\/p>\n

There can never be any good around a wrong move. The Kololo house is public property maintained by the Ugandan taxpayer.<\/p>\n

If anyone should be making decisions about it, it should be the owners \u2013 the taxpayers \u2013 and not a few individuals whose interest in this matter is highly questionable.<\/p>\n

Bank of Uganda surely has a clear policy on gratuity and terminal benefits. Given the 20 years that Mutebile put in, the package due to the family should be enough to assist them get a befitting home.<\/p>\n

Like the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Mr Mathias Mpuuga, pointed out, the proposal was an insult, but not just to Mutebile\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n

To suggest that someone who earned billions in salaries over a period of 20 years and some more in all manner of allowances could not use some of it to secure a home for his family is an insult of mega proportions to a man who had such a sterling record.<\/p>\n

It is, however, a bigger insult to the ordinary hardworking taxpayer who walks home with a take-home package of less than Shs2 million per month, out of which he meets the cost of medication, education for the children, maintenance of the extended family and construction of a house.<\/p>\n

It would be completely unfair to such a taxpayer for government to donate a house to the family of a man who has been earning such money, when it has never donated a house to the less fortunate.<\/p>\n

Parliament should not be setting such a precedence, lest all families of long-serving office holders demand similar treatment.<\/p>\n

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