The National Youth Council has urged Judiciary and Parliament to release all the detained protesters to pave the way for dialogue.
Yesterday, joint security forces of the police, and the army arrested and cracked a whip on protesters against Speaker of Parliament Anita Among. Among is accused of being corrupt.
At least 50 protesters including youth were arrested on their way to parliament, charged and remanded to Luzira Prison.
The leaked documents show the alleged exorbitant sums of monies pocketed by the Speaker Among in the name of per diem, social responsibility among others.
The funds were being deposited in various accounts of the parliamentary staff. The parliamentary exhibition revealed that several MPs claimed per diem for the same activity from parliament and the National Council of Sports.
It further showed that the speaker received over Shs2.4 billion in a space of 39 days. The money that was received by Daniel Adilo and Okwi Emmanuel Emuron was reportedly meant to cater to field mobilization activities, her outreach activities, community consultation activities, and others.
It also showed that she pocketed, per diem, Shs2.6 billion for the eight trips she made out of the country between September 2023 and January 2024. She also received a per diem of Shs646 million between July 2022 and July 2023.
In a period of four days from October 11, 2023, to October 16, 2023, Shs2,673,000,000 was deposited into a personal bank account of parliament staff.
Jacob Eyeru, the chairman of National Youth Council commended the young people both online and physically on the streets for their courageous stance against corruption in Uganda.
“Fighting corruption is a timely and patriotic duty of every well-meaning Ugandan that must be done. We welcome the zeal of all Ugandan youth in speaking out against corruption and demanding accountability on the part of all leaders including the leadership of the National Youth Council,” he said.
He appealed to the leadership in the Judiciary and in Parliament to release all the youth without charge and to provide avenues for further dialogue to have them air out their grievances in a conducive manner.
