James Nsaba Buturo. Laughingstock. Disgrace. Contemptible piece of shit. (Also featuring a Diarist post titled "How I grew down in 2006")

This is the story: When Jimmy was Minister of Information in 2004, he received money from a radio station in Gulu. Sh20 million. The station gave him the money for some jibber jabber about formulating a policy framework blah blah... whatever. They gave him money so that he can do some work for them. After receiving the money Jimmy said, “It was after I studied the nature of the request that I concluded that it was not possible to do what the Board had requested.”

That is to say, Jimmy took the money then said, “I can’t do this job.”

This is the point at which he should have sent the dough back, right?

Well, a man of integrity, would have, but this dude didn’t give it back until parliament and public uproar ordered him to.

He still does not think he has done anything wrong. Dude, in a country where corruption is a crippling disease, widespread and ingrained, a land where corruption is so deep it is part of the culture, the man who is charged with fighting it should not fiddle around with finances. Do things by the book. He should understand what the words Zero Tolerance, Setting and Example, and Appearance of Impropriety mean. He should at the very least understand what Integrity means. That is what we pay him for.

Oops. I forgot. Nsaba James Buturo doesn’t think it is important do what he is paid for.



I can't believe you are still reading this...

I know there are real thieves out there, real crooks, who are stealing, not just um… reassigning… funds, public funds, my money, not Mega FM’s, I know that this case is petty small fry peanuts, so why am I riled up about this? Why no blog rant about The Global Fund?

Well. the global fund crooks did not presume that they should usurp my adult right to determine how best to live my own life by assuming that I lack the moral maturity to decide on my own. Global fund thieves did not repudiate my citizen’s rights and call me a callow child who needs to be protected that I hear from seeing Ray C’s hips.

And they did not trumpet this abhorrent bigotry against people who don’t make much money as if it was a fact declared by God that Mukono people lack the sense to not allow themselves to be sodomised in exchange for pigs, insinuating that because they are poor they must also be stupid. Global Fund thieves at least had the decency to respond to their indecent acts by skiving, ducking and making excuses. Nsaba admitted that he did it. He said he was enthusiastic about breaching procedures and disregarding principles.

Also in the news this week:

How I grew down in 2006

Favourite movie at the end of 2005: Adaptation
Favourite movie at the end of 2006: Pirates of The Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

Musician most often quoted to myself in 2005: Bruce Springsteen
Musician most often quoted to myself in 2006: Jay-Z

Book I felt I had to read by end of 2005: Invisible Cities
Right now I cannot wait for Amazon to deliver my copy of Azazel by Asimov.

Issue I ranted most about by end of 2005: Women being complicit in the insuduous corrosion of their own workplace rights
Issue I rant about now: Nsaba Buturo daring to say I should not watch EATV.