Uganda’s Speaker Anita Among buys a sh2.5bn car

Still on MP`s salary upsurge? Well, the Rt. Hon Speaker Anita Among`s sh2.5bn new Mercedes Benz is already in the country.

The S-Class series, L500 L AMG Line, reportedly jetted into the country last week on Thursday, via a cargo plane.

Drones gather info that indicates they are two cars, whose cost is Sterling Pound 520,000 (approximately sh2,444,000,000) sh2.5bn, which belong to the seventh generation of the S-Class that was originally scheduled to be launched in South Africa last year.

The launch was reportedly prevented by Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the Germany brand`s local arm finally released the machine, and Uganda’s unsympathetic Speaker  Anita Among becomes one of the very first purchasers of the long-awaited luxury car.

Someone here said, a nurse who works 24/7 for 52 weeks demonstrating for salary increment from sh313,000-sh600,00 in this hard economic times was too criminal and should be chased but these ones ordering a Benz worth sh2.5bn is normal and on top of not paying taxes, their pay should be increased by sh10m. Who bewitched Uganda?

This is materialism of our leaders that makes our hearts sick. Sacrifice is oneof the key ingredients of leadership. If Africa’s leaders cannot sacrifice we shall never say bye bye to poverty.

That is why leaders like Mwalimu Julius Kambalage Nyerere are icons on this continent the element of sacrifice is missing here.  Ugandan leaders know it but because they have so often breached the law, not respecting the constitution many times and because of their own ambitions their mouths have been shut because they have no moral right.

According to sources in the know, the purchase of the Mercedes Benz is one of the strategies of making money. First of all, there was breach of procurement procedures. Secondly, the price of the cars was inflated, making triple the actual cost of the car in question. Watch this space!