Uganda, May 4 -- The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (what a mouthful of a name) has sanctioned the Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda and some other Members of Parliament. They are accused of being corrupt and taking resources from vulnerable communities.

The other Members of Parliament were bunched together with Speaker Anita Among as those variously named in the theft of iron sheets intended for vulnerable people of the Karamoja Sub-region.

Mr Chris Obore, the director of communications at the Parliament of Uganda, made a quick response to the accusations (and reasoning) behind the UK government's sanctions against the third most important person in Uganda. As a bona fide Ugandan, it is very an...