Uganda, Feb. 28 -- I, and perhaps a few other Ugandans have lost count of the schemes the NRM government has conjured up over their years in office to get us and especially rural dwellers, to graduate to a higher socio-economic level. Some decades ago there was a scheme originally established for the then war-ravaged Luweero Triangle which greedy politicians hijacked and extended to all districts without increasing the amount of money.

An MP who happened to be a deputy minister in the ministry supervising me at the Uganda Export Promotion Council (now Uganda Export Promotion Board) summoned me and asked me what would be the best way to use that money for his area in the Masaka sub-region. Not being a politician myself and therefore not c...