Rejoice, for the Ugandan ghosts will soon have nowhere to hide
Things were getting out of hand when the president ordered the charging of the top military commander in the court martial for maintaining ghost soldiers on the army payroll 20 ago. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGAH | NMG
The end of an epidemic or entrenched pests can come when we even give up hope of ever being free from it. That seems to be happening in Uganda, where ghosts had become endemic in public affairs. It has taken the emergence of a much bigger problem of global proportions to render our continued romance with ghosts untenable.
Remember how Ebola and Covid made handwashing with soap a life-and-death matter, whose unintended consequence was the eliminating many diseases of poor hygiene? Climate change is now flushing out our ghosts.
