According to this article from the good old World Bank, corruption worldwide adds up – a lot – to about $1 trillion paid in bribes annually.

How does Uganda fair?? Well, the World Bank doesn’t have a list of individual countries ranked according to corruption, but a quick google found this page and also this page, which both rank Uganda pretty close to the bottom of the barrel.

Page number one puts Uganda at 105, grouped with Bolivia, Malawi and others – less corrupt than Laos or Yemen but more corrupt than Tanzania or Malawi.

Page number two says Uganda is 124, smack between Libya (less corrupt) and the Philippines (more corrupt).

I wonder what Muhwezi would have to say about this.

In an interesting move, Finance Minister Ezra Suruma is banning the import of thin plastic bags and increasing the tax on thick ones by 120%. The ban will begin July 1 but traders have until September to get rid of their existing stock.

Enforcement? Hmm…. I’m curious how this one will happen…