We need to divert travel money to key sectors of the economy If travels by using public funds were computerized the President would be shocked to find out that most senior public servants spend more than 1/3 of the year (121 days) abroad earning per-diem. So official work suffers. We should never be surprised as to why implementation of most government programmes is low. Public servants are always on the road/ in air. Refunds subject to provision of accountability for actual costs incurred should replace per-diem if endless travels by public servants is to be curbed. The quote from the State of the Nation address 2012 by the President summarizes it all: Those who push for salary and allowance increases as well as endless travels abroad are the same ones that complain that this road is not done, that project is not done, etc. This is hypocritical and should stop. Our discipline of Buhekyera (guerrilla strategy) educated us in the art of first dealing with the core issues and then dealing with peripheral issues later. As bush fighters, I have always told you that we concentrated on the gun and its ammunition, the recruit and some food. The rest, including clothes, medicine, etc., would be got by attacking the enemy units. This is how we built our Army.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:15:52 +0000
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