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KAMPALA � The Reform Agenda has asked the government to explain the medical entitlements of ministers, MPs and other senior public servants.
It follows comments made last week by members of the late James Wapakhabulo�s family that the fallen Foreign Affairs minister did not get enough help from government when ill.
Said Reform Agenda publicist Beti Kamya: �We were disappointed to hear MPs complaining that Wapakhabulo was neglected by government and ministers explaining that his family did not ask for help. Why would a family have to ask for help?�
Ms Kamya read a statement signed by the group�s deputy chairman, Mr Sam Njuba, at the political pressure group�s weekly media briefing in Bukoto, Kampala.
Kamya said President Museveni should not decide whether one should be given free treatment by government.
�The Reform Agenda has often argued that Uganda is a state and must be governed according to laid down standard operating policies, protocols and procedures.
Public servants� entitlements should be laid down in a manual and not dispensed according to how they are perceived to support the Movement at the time that calamity befalls them,� Kamya said. | 
