Fifth term: Can Museveni reset the button on service delivery?

The renewed promise by President Yoweri Museveni to turn Uganda into a middle-income country by 2020 will require a substantial policy reset, tight supervision in the delivery of public services and a clampdown on corruption – tasks that are as old as the target they seek to fulfil, but which will not easy to execute, analysts say.

For instance, task of cracking down on slow or non-performing public workers, as President Museveni promised on May 12, as he was swore in for his fifth term in office (or seventh if the first two unelected terms are included), is constrained by a bureaucracy that cannot easily be circumvented, noted Dr Hizaamu Ramadhan, of the Uganda Management Institute, who has researched public sector reforms in Uganda.