CLAIM. Independent candidate Amama Mbabazi has promised to increase pay and improve housing for teachers, among other civil servants.
The undertaking in his manifesto is to “recruit and train new teachers coupled with restructuring of their remuneration …”
FACT. When teachers in September 2011 went on strike over government failure to increase their pay as promised, Mr Mbabazi, then the prime minister, threatened to sack them.
CLAIM. Mbabazi says he did nothing wrong in selling his land in Temangalo, Wakiso District, to the National Social Security Fund. The Temangalo land transaction, which Parliament investigated, has become political fodder for opponents against the former prime minister.
TRUTH: In 2008, Mr Mbabazi and business partner Amos Nzeyi sold about 460 acres of land in Temangalo to NSSF at Shs11b. Parliament in a majority committee report indicted Mr Mbabazi and then Finance minister Ezra Suruma, for influence-peddling and abuse of office. A minority report absolved the duo. The majority report recommended dismissal of the ministers. Failure to tender out the land purchase was NSSF’s responsibility, and Parliament found no evidence that there was no value-for-money in the transaction. Then Attorney General Khiddu Makubuya said whereas Parliament’s standing committee acted in “good faith” to investigate the allegations, it had no mandate to do so under the Leadership Code. Subsequently, the whole House never indicted Mbabazi.
VERDICT: Mbabazi’s presumption of innocence in the land deal is correct, unless court were to determine otherwise
housing: Build 660,000 housing units for urban poor
Transportation: Introduce electric trains to reduce travel time between Kampala and Mombasa import/export gateway.
Spatial Planning: Prepare a 50-year master plan to shape Uganda’s orderly urban and rural development
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