Ugandan legislators have each pocketed 29 million Ugandan shillings ($8,000, Sh830,960) as a payout for consultations on legislation to extend the president’s rule. The bill would scrap a constitutional age cap preventing President Yoweri Museveni, 73 and in power for 31 years, from standing in the next election. Public anger over waste and corruption is growing, and protests have erupted in different parts of Uganda gainst the bill. "This is an outright bribe," John Baptist Nambeshe, one of the MPs opposed to the bill, told Reuters. That was the only other occasion MPs have been paid to consult on a specific bill, and it also attracted wide criticism as a thinly-disguised bribe.

Source: The Star October 24, 2017 12:22 UTC