Uganda, March 17 -- The price of "peace" and "stability" in Uganda may now be calculated at Shs2.6 billion per day.

I think this is how we may begin to make measurements based on the information currently roiling social media and public discourse since the dogged researcher-campaigners at the civic information project AGORA, began releasing details of how budgets under the ultimate authority the Office of Speaker of Uganda Parliament are managed.

The public have become at once mesmerised and outraged by reports of the amounts of cash that have been changing hands, and in the manner in which this is being justified.

What has become clear is that our Parliament is a place awash with cash which anyone connected to the place has a chance o...