New jets show where govt priorities really lie

President Museveni summoned lawmakers from the ruling NRM party to his presidential palace last week to discuss a matter of national importance, so we were told. No one anticipated what the head of state had in mind. It turns out the President had called the meeting to lobby his MPs to authorise a retrospective spending of close to two trillion shillings for the purchase of sophisticated military hardware to include fighter jets and armoured tanks. MPs were shocked to learn that the government

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