Evelyn Anite, a politician from Uganda who serves as the State Minister of Finance for Investment and Privatization, has acknowledged that after losing the election in 2021, she withdrew the ambulance she had given to the Koboko Municipality in her district.
Despite giving an ambulance to the electorate, the politician who ran against Dr. Charles Ayume for a parliamentary seat in Koboko District lost.
On September 7, 2020, Mrs. Anite gave the ambulance to the local health department with the promise that she would continue to pay the driver.
Health officials started looking for the missing ambulance after it vanished from the parking lot with Anite’s portrait painted all over it.
Dr. Denis Oloya, the local health officer, confirmed that the ambulance had been given back to the minister and sent to Kampala.
The ambulance driver, who claimed that the MP removed it, was spoken to by the mayor of Koboko Municipality, Mr. Wilson Sanya.
On Tuesday, October 3, 2023, the minister acknowledged that she had actually returned the ambulance and that she had made no apologies for doing so.
“Thank you for bringing this up. First, it’s true I took back my ambulance & I have no apologies for that. Why did I do it? It’s because they didn’t vote for me. So did you expect me to walk away with nothing? Galatians 6:7 A man reaps what he sows,” she wrote.
She then responded to X users who had criticized her for her “shameless and embarrassing action.”
