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The world bank early this month announced it wouldn’t accept any new funding requests to Uganda due to the countries tough stance on homosexuality following the passing of the new Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 which was signed into law by president Museveni.
This move by the world bank has raised mixed reactions and many scholars have questioned why the bank hasn’t suspended funding to countries who even have tougher laws against homosexuality especially in the Middle East but single out Uganda.
Some scholars have since revealed that the world bank might have used the Anti-homosexuality Act as a spark but behind the reality it might be a different reason especially the stinking corruption that has prevailed in Uganda for quite some time and many efforts to fight haven’t yielded much.
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Since the announcement by the world bank that it’s suspending funding to Uganda over th Anti-homosexuality Act, president Museveni has issued two hard and tough letters in response to the world bank. In the first two paged document released a day after the announcement, Museveni openly said Uganda would develop with or without World Banks loans but he also said if there’s need for funding, they would opt for alternative sources of funding.
His government despite being in talks with world bank to change it’s stance on Uganda and also issue a second chance and continue funding projects in Uganda. Government is also for the first time in it’s history considering revising it’s financial discipline but it’s starting with salary cuts for civil servants if the worst comes to the worst.
Uganda, a country with over 80 ministers, over 200 official presidential advisors, over 520 members of parliament, and over 120 government parastatals with executive directors, board of directors and commissioners all cruising expensive cars, being fueled by the tax payer and some with police patrol and lead cars leaves on an extravagant bill to cater for salaries and allowances but can only fund it’s budge by 53% and the 47% is entirely loans, foreign aid and grants.
In Museveni’s 26 paged letter to World Bank which was entirely hitting to the global lending institution, the president called world bank all sorts of names despite picking from them loans year in, year out to run his government. In the letter, Museveni told the World Bank to stop it’s arrogant posture towards Uganda over th Anti-homosexuality act.
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The president also said the world bank loans are instead meting poverty and stunted growth on Africans and it’s the reason Africa including Uganda continue being poor.
“If foreign aid and loans, are a source of social-economic transformation, why the present growing crisis of even security and stability in Africa? Look at Guinnea-Conakry, Mali, Burkina-Faso, Niger, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Boko Haram in Nigeria, Somalia, Mozambique, etc Most of these countries, have been getting those grants and loans”-Museveni questions
Now Uganda’s opposition firebrand politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine has clapped back at president Museveni regarding his 26 page open letter to world bank where he referred to the institution as a hub of neo-colonialism and heaping all the blame for Uganda’s failures of foreigners.
The NUP principal who also hit at World Bank for being selective with Human rights and only considering homosexuality as a right to defend yet Ugandans are tortured, mimed, killed by security and the army according to human rights reports. He however believes Museveni’s tough open letter to World Bank had a lot of holes which he has poked below.
Below is Bobi Wine’s Statement in reply to Museveni over World Bank and we bring it verbatim
RESPONSE TO MR. MUSEVENI’S STATEMENT ON THE SUSPENSION OF LOANS TO UGANDA BY THE WORLD BANK.
Gen Museveni,
Your recent outburst about the World Bank withholding future assistance to Uganda is a clear indication of your ideological disorientation and policy nomadism that has…
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) August 24, 2023
… It does not help matters that despite sound policy advice to the contrary, your government continues to borrow from commercial banks, which worsens the fate of the same private sector whose successes you continue to claim.
Under your regime, on the foreign policy front, our…
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) August 24, 2023
… What does that say about your own ideological (dis)orientation?
Moreover, you have erroneously conflated economic growth (which is about numbers) with economic development (which is about qualitative change and progress). This is akin to equating growth in terms of the…
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) August 24, 2023
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