What are the new Government’s priorities?

NRM members of parliament have been ordered by the president to approve a transaction worth Shs1.7 trillion to buy fighte jets and other military hardware. It is not known even to the MPs who needs these jets, why and when government will use them.

But it is understood that government needs the sophisticated Russian-made jet fighters to strengthen the country’s national air defense capability. This figure is about 23 percent of the country’s Shs 7 trillion budget for 2010/2011 which is

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