Self-inflicted poverty

Sunday, 7th December,
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/21/663223

EDITOR—The story about the EAC spending 40% on hotels does not come as a surprise to me!

African leaders use a lot of public funds on personal affairs rather than improving the lives of their wretched electorate.

Their allowances are very high, if not obscene. but who cares!
Before questioning the officials of the EAC on their immoral expenditure, it is better to put to task their role models, the legislators and other government officials, in their countries, for their penchant misuse of public funds. Isn’t it weird that these officials are paid a lot of money for doing almost no work?

Look at the number of ministers in Kenya and the assistant ministers who in some cases are more than two! Doesn’t this explain why poverty is a ‘qualification’ of East African countries?
How can we progress economically if all public money goes into the pockets of a few individuals?

Susan Wamuyu,
Makerere University