"Every Ugandan should sacrifice as a Ugandan to complain as a Ugandan!"

Ugandans should stop whining, throwing dirt at whoever is running this country and start paying their dues to the state.

We are all tasked to shoulder the burden of financing this state, before we can start complaining left, right and center that “govt” is not meeting its responsibilities to the citizenry.

We all had a cardinal duty of paying graduated tax as the minimum requirement to fully feel like a Ugandan.

We all duly deserved the right to question where “Our” money was going, because we all parted with something. 

This tax source was scrapped simply because many people complained about the cruel extraction process used by tax collectors and misappropriation of the money collected by local councils.

Ugandans had got used to the duty of paying graduated tax because it was very humiliating to be paraded before one’s family and fellow villagers for failing to pay the tax. Every man worked hard to at least pay the tax and brag that he was a responsible man.

We have shifted the burden to the working lot, restricting their social expenditure scope and depriving village folks of money they used to get from their working relatives; they would pay graduated tax and increasingly spend on goods and services taxed by the state.

We reason that we pay taxes on goods we consume and services we enjoy, but what’s the aggregate value of this tax? In 6-months can it construct 1,000km of a tarmac road, or build a school?

@Omukiga-Wekiniga

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