Quotes
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs kept telling us the guests would come. The rooms remained vacant until CHOGM was over. Each of the 200 rooms was hired at $200.” Joseph Behakanira, the proprietor of J&M Airport Hotel while appearing before the Public Accounts Committee on February 11th.
“Our society has decayed to an extent that people don’t know what to do when they wake up every morning. We must accept that we are living in a morally bankrupt society.” State Trade Minister Gagawala Wambuzi
“Between 1994 and 1999, I belonged to that class of money makers, wheeler-dealers and the rich. But in 1999, my revolutionary background reminded me and I got saved and categorically declared that I had abandoned that class.” General Salim Saleh in an NRM meeting in Kasangombe last weekend.
“I was in the US and they gave me something they called a pineapple. It didn’t taste like a pineapple! There was no sweetness. I think they had used too much urea fertiliser and I could taste it. You know, I am a cowboy.” President Yoweri Museveni at an inaguaration of a new drugs factory in Mukono district last Saturday.
“I would like to figure out a way to handle it in as peaceful an approach as possible, and I certainly welcome any meaningful engagement, but ... we don’t want to be engaging while they are building their bomb.” U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on Iran’s nuclear ambitions
“Our society has decayed to an extent that people don’t know what to do when they wake up every morning. We must accept that we are living in a morally bankrupt society.” - State Trade Minister Gagawala Wambuzi
“Angie was a nobody, she died a nobody, she will never have a funeral, she will never have a tombstone. She is just one of the nameless, faceless victims, and I hate that.” Haitian earthquake survivor Angie Dupoux on the death of her cousin t 17-year-old Angelania Ritchelle
Numbers
81,000,000,000
The amount in shillings that civil servants who retire starting this year will get according to a new policy. The policy will affect 54,000 retirees.
24,000,000,000
The value in shillings of the recently acquired police vehicles and equipment from the governments of Canada and the Netherlands.
1, 300,000,000
The amount of money in dollars the government intends to use to build the Karuma hydro-power station.
255,000,000
The amount of money in shillings that is unaccounted for by Gulu Municipality. Police have accused three Gulu officials of corruption and abuse of office for failing to produce accountability documents for the money that was meant for various projects.
1,500,000
The amount of money in shillings each of the winners of the 24 Monitor Mentorship and Excellence Awards received for school fees.
200,000
The amount of money in shillings a grade two magistrate attached to Entebbe Court, Mr. Christmas Bindeba Godfrey, is accused of receiving as a bribe last week.
142, 000
The number of students who will miss senior five positions this year countrywide.
513, 219
The number of students who sat for the Primary Leaving Examination in 2009.
1,650
The total number of motorcycles impounded by police in and around Kampala last week in the on-going boda boda crackdown.
782
The number of women maliciously infected with HIV virus by Byarugaba, a recently deceased doctor.
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