NUP's SG David Lewis Rubongoya {Photo Credit - File}
By Jose Kabale
On Tuesday, the Ugandan Parliament chaired by Anita Annet Among approved the motion which requested for an extension of a 500m gratuity to the outgoing Auditor General John Muwanga.
The proposal, that was presented at the floor of Parliament by the state minister for Finance/General Duties Henry Musasizi, he proposed that the outgoing Auditor General John Muwanga should be allowed a 500m on top of a life-time salary which is equivalent to that of a sitting officer, a state burial upon death, a furnished house, a one-off payment in lieu of accommodation, an annual medical allowance, provisions for transportation, security among others.
According to NUP's Secretary General, David Lewis Rubongoya, the act is a move to sanitize the Parliamentary leadership of the previous accusations leveled against them of graft and misappropriation of public funds.
"The one of the Auditor General is meant to sanitize the service award to parliamentary commissioners which was illegal and wrong. I think we need to understand that for the Auditor General for example, there is a law that puts in place his office, the AG is entitled to the pension, to gratuity, the AG is a senior government official, but there is also a problem of conflict of interest, it's the AG who's supposed to investigate the parliament..."
Before it's approval, the decision was pushed by the Budadiri West Constituency member of Parliament Nathan Nandala Mafabi who argued that the outgoing AG should pocket 50m for every year he served.
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