Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party has said it is against the government’s decision to give Members of Parliament 200 Million Shillings to buy cars.
Speaking at the party’s headquarters at Najjanankumbi in Kampala on Monday, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, its spokesperson and an MP himself, said the government must adopt a policy where all its employees including MPs should be just given interest-free loans that should be recovered from their monthly salaries to buy for themselves cars.
Ssemujju’s comments come less than a week after 529 MPs and 26 Ex-officials were each last week given 200 Million Shillings to buy themselves a car.
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On whether it is a right for MPs to take money yet the country is in the middle of a pandemic, Ssemujju said the principle remains that it is wrong to give money any time.
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FDC has also called upon President Museveni not to extend the current lockdown when it runs out on Thursday this week.
Ssemujju said although as a party they supported the lockdown that was announced on June 18 as a measure to slow the spread of Covid-19, it can’t be a permanent solution.
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Ssemujju said that government should speed up the process of buying vaccines so that people are vaccinated to safely return to their work.
