Whenever Members of Parliament are sworn in, several banks and other money lenders rush to sweet-talk the MPs into taking loans. Some are duped into borrowing up to Shs1 billion, hoping it will be paid off before the end of their parliamentary term.
But my humble advice to the newly elected MPs is that they should hold on and not rush to take loans until the ongoing investigations into former Speaker of Parliament Anita Among and her associates are concluded.
At the moment, the information we have is that all the MPs who received backing from the former Speaker of Parliament are likely to be rounded up for interrogation, which might lead to fresh elections in their constituencies.
Basing on that, I would like to alert the newly elected Members of Parliament that if you know you won the seat with the backing of former Speaker of Parliament Anita Among, please do not rush to borrow bank loans, since paying them back could become a problem if you are kicked out of Parliament.
It is not a rumor but a fact that all MPs who won their seats did so with the help of the former Speaker, and investigators have been dispatched to the first 12 constituencies where evidence has allegedly been obtained from voters showing that the MPs representing those constituencies did not win genuinely.
The investigation team is also visiting constituencies where candidates claimed they had no competitors and were declared unopposed.
This is the reason I am, in a brotherly way, advising the newly elected MPs that if you know in your heart that without Among’s influence you would not have won the seat, please stay away from loans because you could be out of Parliament at any time.
The writer is a senior veteran journalist.
