Mwenda has been on the receiving end of public backlash over his support of the unpopular OTT and Mobile Money taxes that were introduced at the beginning of this week.<\/p>\n
While appearing on the Hot Seat show on KFM, Mwenda said the new OTT tax is one of the good things Museveni has done for Uganda.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now people are feeling the pinch of paying taxes and they will demand accountability for their taxes,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n Mwenda\u2019s only worry is that Museveni will scrap the OTT tax.<\/p>\n \u201cMuseveni is a populist president and he is going to scrap the tax because people are making noise,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n The veteran journalist said the best Ugandans can do is pay tax or not expect service delivery from government.<\/p>\n \u201cTeachers\u2019 salaries were increased, doctors\u2019 salaries were increased. Where is this money going to come from?\u201d<\/p>\n He also cautioned Ugandans not to expect heaven on earth when they belong to a poor country.<\/p>\n \u201cIf your father is Sudhir\u2019s guard and he earns Shs400,000 a month, you can\u2019t ask him for the same things Sudhir\u2019s children ask him for,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Mwenda argued.<\/p>\n \u201cUgandans are going to force me to commit suicide or go to exile,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mwenda has been on the receiving end of public backlash over his support of the unpopular OTT and Mobile Money taxes that were introduced at the beginning of this week. While appearing on the Hot Seat show on KFM, Mwenda said the new OTT tax is one of the good things Museveni has done for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6027,"featured_media":12909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1642,1101],"class_list":["post-12906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-andrew-mwenda","tag-uganda-news"],"yoast_head":"\n