“Burden Share” – stop the corruption you smell and see

The Constitution in article 286 prohibits illicit or unexplained wealth by public officers.

It commands forfeiture and confiscation of such assets which cannot be traced to ones’ income, gift, loan, inheritance or other reasonably legitimate sources.

Public officers who complain of earning very little and have no other legitimate sources of income, can afford $140,000 private V8s and build mansions; they or their relations, without known sources of income, establish multimillion businesses within one-term four-year political cycle.

Those who appointed them with full knowledge of their previous and current circumstance pretend not to smell or see the daylight thievery.

One most effective way to check the petty and grand corruption, some of the evidence for which abound in the annual Auditor-General’s Report, is to activate and expand this law on unexplained wealth with clear rules.

Those who claim to fight corruption have always known this. Let them act if they are truly committed to the fight against corruption!

It is refreshing to hear Prof. Stephen Adei declare the obvious, what anti-corruption crusaders have said over and again, that “[a]nyone in authority who says he wants evidence on corruption is blind.”

We sure need a coup on public corruption to save this country. Listen to Kampala-based Canadian preacher Gary Skinner and get inspired to act with integrity and demand better commitment to protecting the public purse.

Source: Samson Lardy Anyenini