Uganda, March 16 -- Our nation is entombed in an unprecedented 'thievocracy'. The media is currently awash with the reports of alleged broad daylight thieving of humongous amounts of public resources in Parliament.

Ideally, the August assembly should be constituted by a nation's creme de la creme, honourable men and women, whose integrity is beyond reproach, providing oversight function to the other organs of the State.

In Uganda's case, sadly, the August House, like all the other institutions of the State and government, is reported to be deeply mired in grotesque kleptomania. At the centre of this thieving, it is alleged, is the leadership of Parliament. The ordinary Members of Parliament are beneficiaries too.

But thieving is has be...