Ugandans left yawning as money burn to ashes

Honestly speaking this tantamounts to murder! It is like showing food to a starving child or even an adult. Wads of money in denominations of sh50,000, burn to ashes at this time of economic chaos?

Well, while you and I are starving, there are some people out there, whose hidden wads of money are habitats for coackroaches and food for ants.  This particular wad of money that got burnt is not an isolated case; the corrupt leaders in Uganda are hidding money in baskets in upcountry huts.

Guilt is convicting the thieves to hide the loot in their upcountry homes, where gullible samba boys and house helpers do set fire unknowingly.

A story is told how one of the senior army officers one night went back home with a kaveera full of money, but because he was drunk he placed it anyhow. In the following morning as the house help was cleaning she took the kaveera of money without checking it to Kasasiro/rubish heap.

Guess what happened! There was party in Kasanga. While children played and picked rubished items, they accidentally landed on the Kaveera of money.  The whole area was in inflation. News spread and even this story was published in The Newvision.

This is not the only story about money in wrong hands in Uganda. This site learnt of an incident in one of the schools on Entebbe Road, where one of the pupils had about sh10m in the dormitories and police was called to ascertain the source.

Yesterday Kagwa Njala tweeted, ” I’m at bond along Ggaba rd & a lady has hired 2 Cross country Benz for her daughter’s headgirlship campaign. In our chit chat, she reveals that she’s put aside 8m to facilitate the process including buying hankies and chocolates for the whole school. Only daughter! Awo wetuli!”

Anyway, If you have money to burn, congratulations—but you’d better not actually set fire to a pile of cash. Burning money is illegal in Uganda and elsewhere and is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, not to mention fines.