Uganda’s public health sector is a festering wound, and Perez Batanda, the former engineer at Mulago National Referral Hospital, is just the latest vulture to feast on its rotting flesh. Billions of shillings, meant to save lives and uplift the poor, were stolen by this parasitic thief who was entrusted with restoring health to the broken. Instead, he chose to gorge himself on funds meant for medical equipment and infrastructure, leaving Uganda’s largest hospital in ruins and its people in despair. This sickening act is just another chapter in the grotesque story of Uganda’s systemic collapse under Museveni’s watch, where corruption runs rampant, unchecked, and seemingly unpunishable.
Batanda is no lone wolf. His blatant theft is just the most recent exposure of the cancer that has long consumed Mulago Hospital. Billions have been siphoned off, not just by Batanda, but by a whole network of greedy rats feeding off the very funds meant to keep the hospital functioning. Mulago, a place where lives are meant to be saved, has become a slaughterhouse where the sick are abandoned in crumbling wards while corrupt officials stuff their pockets with gold. It is a grotesque betrayal of the Ugandan people, who are left to die in squalor because men like Batanda would rather get rich than fulfill their duty.
This isn’t just theft—it’s murder. Every delayed medical project, every failed infrastructure upgrade, every missing piece of equipment translates to lives lost. Batanda and his corrupt peers are not just stealing shillings—they are stealing lives. And while the poor die waiting for care, these soulless scoundrels swim in stolen wealth, laughing at the suffering they’ve caused. This is the brutal reality of Museveni’s Uganda—a land where the rich get richer on the backs of the dying.
Museveni’s so-called anti-corruption campaign is nothing more than a disgusting farce. Every time another scumbag like Batanda is exposed, we are fed the same lies about investigations and prosecutions. But we all know the truth: these thieves are protected, shielded by the very government that claims to fight them. How many corrupt officials have actually been convicted? None. Museveni’s regime reeks of the same stench of rot and decay that emanates from Mulago Hospital. His government is a grotesque parody of leadership, where corruption isn’t punished—it’s rewarded.
This country is being bled dry by its leaders. Batanda’s crimes are a symptom of the larger disease: Uganda is run by a cabal of crooks who see public funds as their personal treasure. The entire system, from top to bottom, is infested with rats. The people charged with protecting public interests have been bought and sold, their souls traded for a few shillings. And until this monstrous regime is dismantled, until Museveni and his cronies are thrown out, nothing will change. The corrupt will thrive, and the innocent will continue to die in filth and neglect.
Perez Batanda is a symbol of Uganda’s tragic collapse. His trial means nothing—it’s just another performance in Museveni’s circus of lies. Until this corrupt system is torn down, Ugandans will continue to suffer, and the likes of Batanda will keep walking free, drenched in the blood of the people.
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