This is a legitimate concern, especially because it involves tax payers' money.
Firstly, the LOP's budget caters to opposition MPs and staff, unlike the Speaker and Deputy Speaker who don't have MPs under them.
So contrary to what some believe, the budget for the office of LOP is not money that goes to the pocket of the office bearer. If anything, I don't even have control over that budget, the Speaker has to always clear any activities that we propose to do as the Opposition, and sometimes she doesn't give clearance even if it's budgeted for.
The Speaker controls the budgets of all departments and committees of Parliament. Even when committees have money budgeted for them, many times the money is used elsewhere by the institution and therefore not availed to the particular committee. Likewise, the LOP's budget is not under the LOP's control.
Some time recently as the Opposition we planned to execute some activities which were budgeted for, but the Finance department told us the money was not available, eventhough on paper(budget) it was. I wrote to the Clerk to Parliament as the Accounting Officer, asking him what happened to the resources since we had not utilized them. He wrote back to me explaining that the Speaker had directed for the usage of that money for different Parliament activities which I didn't even know about, and this is a concern I have raised severally regarding the operations at Parliament.
So that 4.2bn budget is in the real sense not under my control.
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Justice in Uganda: A Study in Contrast
+FRAME ONE: The Rights of a Killer
+The Incident: Christopher Okello Onyun (in photo) attacks a nursery school, stabbing four innocent children to death.
≠The Response: As an angry mob gathers to seek immediate retribution, the police intervene to save him from being lynched. Good.
-The Outcome: Despite the horrific nature of his crimes, Onyun is granted his constitutional right to a fair trial in a civilian court, as he should.
+FRAME TWO: The Fate of the Peaceful
+The Incident: Opposition supporters stage a pro-democracy protest. They carry nothing but placards; not a single stone is thrown, and no one is physically harmed.
≠The Response: These peaceful citizens are set upon by the very same police force that protected a child killer. They are subjected to brutal beatings at the scene.
-The Outcome: The "justice" system takes a darker turn for the protestors:
•The Disappeared: Some vanish entirely, never to be seen again.
•The Tortured: Others reappear weeks later, bearing the physical scars of severe torture.
•The Jurisdiction: Unlike the child killer, these peaceful civilians are denied a civilian trial. Instead, they are processed through a Military Court.
¡The Verdict
Demanding democracy is treated as a greater threat to the social order than the murder of children. Good luck making sense of it.