UDA looking for backpay

The announcements of loyalist decommissioning this week by General John De Chastelain should be welcomed by all, even if it is a little bit late in coming. But then the announcement that the UDA wanted money in return for guns makes the extra wait a little more plausible. If I stay in work for a few extra hours per week, I get overtime pay. I guess the UDA leadership believe they are entitled to overtime for the work they have done over the years trying to expunge the world of people other than themselves. Maybe they think they are entitled to a refund for the guns, and maybe they would be better off going to South Africa for repayment, provided they have the receipts of course. I have never understood when the IRA began decommissioning their weapons in 2001, that the UDA were allowed to keep their guns for so long. Were they trying to find all the receipts? Or maybe they were keeping them in case a Romanian insurrection occurred in South Belfast? So what will the outcome be? Quis Separabit Armorum? Maybe they could go see what the scrap man will give them.