The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has directed the Attorney General to explain the circumstances surrounding the unpaid benefits to world war ex-servicemen.<\/p>\n
Presiding over a sitting of the House on Wednesday, 23 May 2018, Kadaga read a letter from Eriab Kavuma, a veteran under the Ex-Servicemen Association requesting for financial support from Members of Parliament to enable them follow up on their compensation.<\/p>\n
In 2010, the court ordered the government to compensate ex-servicemen and in 2017, the Minister of State for Veteran Affairs, Hon. Bright Rwamirama, confirmed that the government would effect the\u00a0 payment over three financial years.<\/p>\n
However, in the letter, Kavuma said that they had not yet been compensated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ask you to contribute Ush500,000 every month for six months to facilitate us to follow up our compensation,\u201d Kavuma states in his letter.<\/p>\n
Kavuma adds that the British government had forwarded Ush20 billion to the Ugandan government for the war veterans, which they had not received.<\/p>\n
Kadaga said that it was unfair for the government to neglect the ex-servicemen leaving them in a dire state.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy should we leave these old people to suffer when they served in the World Wars; these people have no money,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Kadaga said that there is need for the Attorney General to come to Parliament and clarify the matter.<\/p>\n
The servicemen fought on the Allied side in the First and Second World Wars serving in Ethiopia, Burma and on the Indian frontier.<\/p>\n
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