Fighting for budget crumbs? | Monitor

After an irksome 38 years in power, Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has aged into a humongous machine of corruption and incompetence that seems to grow and grow.

Once all the processes of big decision-making started being nudged towards the President, and the trend of emasculating institutions became the norm, the expression of loyalty to the President became far more important than the application of reason; or truth and integrity; or fair play; or patriotism. 

To do what the President wanted became the first duty for those in high places.

But even in…