Mutebile lifts the lid on patronage and electoral financing in Uganda
Bank of Uganda’s Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile this week lifted the lid on the funding mechanisms for political patronage in the country, which critics say were responsible for “buying” the 2011 elections for President Yoweri Museveni. FILE PHOTOS | TEA GRAPHIC | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Bank of Uganda’s Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile this week lifted the lid on the funding mechanisms for political patronage in the country, which critics say were responsible for “buying” the 2011 elections for President Yoweri Museveni.
Mr Mutebile told a gathering of academicians meeting outside Kampala that the central bank had sold so many Treasury bills to create cash for the government in the run-up to the elections, he could not determine how much of the money “ended up in political electioneering” in 2011.
