Lwemiyaga county MP, Theodre Sekikubo says the parliament should amend the constitution in order to have the government officials who reportedly received oil bribe to be charged in the military court martial.

Sekikubo says that probably the corrupt in the government will develop fears and stop miss managing public resources.

Sekikubo says that corruption in Uganda is affecting Ugandans in all walks of life but the corrupt continue to walk scot free. Sekikubo says that civil courts waste a lot of time looking for evidence.

Currently Ugandan civilians can only be tried in court martial under the anti terrorism act, which provides that a civilian found with a gun can be tried in a court martial.

In fact the act says that the state has to produce evidence that the weapon found with a civilian is a monopoly of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces.

Sekikubo also says that even workers at statehouse who are reported to be corrupt should be always tried in court martial to create fear among public officials not to engage in corruption related acts. Recently president Museveni also proposed that the corrupt people should be tried in court martial.

By James Okello