All this is due to the poor state of our roads that has persistently prevailed over decades and characterizing the NRM regime. In his speech during the 2010/2011 budget presentations, the president of Uganda His Excellency Y.K Museveni promised to create a crack unit comprised of NRM young cadres to fight corruption in the road sector a move I applauded though with reservations.
For instance, the composition alone of the crack unit is most likely to be misconstrued as a political outfit or extension of NRM given its composition and consequently viewed as NRM’s tried and tested strategy of political patronage. True that there have been registered success in Health and NAADS where similar units have been instituted to curb down on theft of drugs and NAADS money respectively however some pundits argue that much is still required to be done at the executive level.
Creating extra units to monitor sectors is detrimental in itself as it will create more structures of governance which require more resources to sustain .Now this is not what Uganda needs when already we are faced with an ever escalating public administration budget. Besides, with a party infested with graft one wonders whether the proposed unit will be able to perform without catching the bug that has eaten away the party to the core.
The President himself holds the key to this corruption puzzle and until he stops surrounding himself with corrupt officials, corruption in itself will persist at unprecedented levels up to a point of becoming a lifestyle and Uganda is just a foot away to that!
National Anti Corruption Strategy
National Development Plan 2010-2011 Prt 5