Uganda, March 24 -- Parliament has continued to attract unfavourable media attention since an online campaign launched in February started to expose financial impropriety and wasteful spending.

Many issues have been raised, and people have been demanding answers. But those who are supposed to give answers have been disturbingly quiet.

The sound of their silence has convinced many Ugandans that skeletons have managed to leave the closets where they had been hidden and are now walking - in a manner of speaking - around Parliament Avenue and other streets in Kampala.

Among the issues the campaign dubbed #UgandaParliamentExhibition has brought to the fore is the travel allowance Speaker Anita Among is entitled to. It jumped from $990 (Shs3...