{"id":29238,"date":"2022-04-06T16:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T16:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-proposes-shs100m-for-ex-speakers-burial"},"modified":"2022-04-06T17:01:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:01:30","slug":"nup-proposes-shs100m-for-ex-speakers-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-proposes-shs100m-for-ex-speakers-burial","title":{"rendered":"NUP proposes Shs100m for ex-Speaker\u2019s burial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The leadership of Opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) party, has called for a further slashing of the budget for the burial of former Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah.<\/p>\n

According to the NUP leaders, Shs100m would give Oulanyah a decent burial.<\/p>\n

Addressing the media at their headquarters in Kamwokya, Kampala yesterday, Mr Joel Ssenyonyi, the party spokesperson, attributed the slashing of the money to the \u201cnoise\u201d that was made by the general public, urging them to continue raising their voices on other matters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Ugandans have now seen how important their voices are. It is not clear how a burial can cost Shs2.5b of the taxpayers\u2019 money. It is good it has been reduced but we think this can be reduced even further,\u201d Mr Ssenyonyi said.<\/p>\n

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Although Mr Ssenyonyi did not mention the ideal figure that would befit Oulanyah send-off, his deputy, Mr Alex Mufumbiro, said at least Shs100m would give the fallen Speaker a proper burial without plundering resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our African setting, when a person dies, people come up with contributions and we expected that the MPs would open up a book for contributions towards the burial of the Speaker. If there were any shortages, the government would chip in but a budget of Shs100m would be good for a decent burial,\u201d Mr Mufumbiro said.<\/p>\n

The budget has already been slashed twice from the original Shs2.5b, which was exclusively covered by this publication last week, sparking countrywide debate. The figure was reduced to Shs1.8b, then to the current amount of Shs1.2b.<\/p>\n

Government cited \u201cunnecessary expenditure\u201d for cutting the budget to where it is at the moment.<\/p>\n

In the original budget, the big-ticket expenditure items included burial day (Shs1.1b), A-Plus Funeral Management (Shs226m), Acholi Parliamentary Group (Shs313m), finance committee (Shs248.7m), security (Shs158.5m), and fuel (Shs124m).<\/p>\n

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On Monday evening, organisers of the State funeral for the former Speaker were relieved after Parliament confirmed that the long-awaited Shs1.2b for the burial expenses had been deposited to its bank account.<\/p>\n

In his address, Mr Mufumbiro claimed that many of the people who are close to the organisation of this ceremony have taken advantage of the situation for personal gain.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need as the country to learn from this incident that we need to work on our health care system.<\/p>\n

That will help us not burden the already impoverished taxpayers from giving away money to people in the name of organising funerals of high-ranking officers who have died from abroad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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When contacted for a comment, Parliament\u2019s director of communication, Mr Chris Obore, said: \u201cI dont want to cheapen the farewell for a man whom the country respects so much and if it is the position NUP to cheapen it, that is theirs. Our resolution as Parliament and government is to provide the Speaker emeritus a decent send-off. We don\u2019t want to be derailed by this talk of money. We request them to allow us to mourn. They can mock but let them have respect for us who feel the pain. \u201d<\/p>\n

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