Ugandan political party asks President to sack politicians instead of civil servant to cut costs

 

 

The Democratic Party (DP), a moderate conservative political party in Uganda, has asked Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to reduce the number of political appointees instead of retrenching civil servants to cut the huge public expenditure reports Daily Monitor.

The party was appealed to the President after he announced during the just ended one week cabinet retreat that he will be laying off some civil servants to save the East African nation some money.

According to DP civil servants are utility technical people in service delivery in the government.

“Mr Museveni is selfish. He thinks downsizing the number of civil servants improves service delivery. This is a total lie and it is unacceptable,” said DP spokesperson Kenneth Kakande, claiming that particulars of more than 4,000 civil servants were in the past deleted from the payroll in a questionable clean-up exercise.

President Museveni has tasked formed Finance minister Ezra Suruma with conducting a study into the bloated public service and associated wage bill review and recommendation for appropriate action to reduce the wage bill.

DP believes that the 117 districts in Uganda are over saturated with politicians that can be reduced instead of the civil service work force.

“Why would Uganda, a country with only more than 30 million people, have a Parliament of 437 members, 100 presidential advisors and other district leaders whose services have never been desired,” Mr Kakande said.