Money-hungry youths to miss out on deployment in key government institution
President Museveni has been strained to accommodate a meeting with a group of radical NRM youth for more than two hours at State House Nakasero, and their national chairperson Mubarak Ssenteza expected to be expelled for “criminal behaviour connected with on-going political controversies within the NRM youth wing”.
The striking group is of about 100 of the 290 youths comprised mainly of those who previously belonged to the NRM Poor Youths, an organisation that initially supported the presidential bid of former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi. The youths later defected to NRM’s candidate Museveni in the run-up to the 2016 elections.
They recently graduated as cadres of the Ruling Party -NRM from the National Leadership Institute Kyankwanzi.
Nevertheless, President Museveni had promised to deploy them in different government ministries and agencies to tackle cases of poor service delivery and widespread corruption after 60 days of NRM ideological training. This was meant to help government meet its target of moving from from a predominantly peasant economy to a Middle Income status by 2020.
The President’s argument is that his ministers, government bureaucrats have failed at service delivery as they often steal the money.
A fortnight ago, the group who are largely youths allied to the Uganda Poor Youth Movement (UPYM) recently marched to State House Entebbe in protest over poor facilitation. Each of the participant likely to get Ush2m from the president as a transport refund for the two months they spent in Kyankwanzi.
Reports
A State House insider tells TheUgandan that the President is very disappointed with the group’s reaction to being given less money and has okayed the for meeting to take place before Friday this week at State house Nakasero.
“The president is not happy with the behaviours of the boys and he won’t deploy most of them due to indiscipline and ideological bankruptcy after what they exhibited immediately after returning from NALI,” a State House party privy to the meeting revealed.
“He (Museveni) could not believe that these youths were that greedy and that is the reason he has instead order a State House official to give them Shs2m each instead of deploying them in key government institutions,” our source added.
Background
For over a week now, State House has been investigating about 100 of the 290 fresh cadres over suspicion they were still linked to Amama Mbabazi and plotting to engineer a comeback for the former Super Minister.
“One of their leaders called Mubarak Ssenteza and Kaggwa aka Senior Defector are being suspected as Mbabazi moles thus are going to be banished from the group,” our source intimated before adding: “Those two have a section of the group under their wing who are very vocal among others while demanding for atleast Shs1.5m as compensation due to debt burdens at home after along two months away from their work. That is a decoy.”
Ssenteza has been singled out by the investigators as the leader of individuals who have been mobilizing antagonism among the youth wing on radio stations and social media and “using methods that amount to criminality”.
