Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee

MUBS locks horns with Uganda Land Commission over land compensation

MUBS locks horns with Uganda Land Commission over land compensation

MPS on the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee have revived a probe into Makerere University Business School (MUBS) and Uganda Land Commission (ULC) previous land dealing  which are currently  generating conflict between the two institutions. The MPS investigations are facilitated by the   Auditor General’s Report for the financial year 2016/17 which shows that the ULC compensated […]

MPS grill MUBS officials over suspected funds mismanagement

MPS grill MUBS officials over suspected funds mismanagement

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has quizzed the officials of Makerere University Business School (MUBS) led by the University’s principal Prof.Waswa Balunywa over gross mismanagement of the university funds. The committee presided over by the Woman MP for  Soroti district Angelina Osege observed that MUBS accounting officers caused the diversion of 259 million shillings to […]

Staff bickering and corruption killing Uganda’s missions abroad- MPs

Staff bickering and corruption killing Uganda’s missions abroad- MPs

Members of Parliament sitting on the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee say they have unearthed the rot in the foreign missions which relates to mismanagement of the missions and infighting among the staff. The committee that is presided over by the Member of Parliament for Ntungamo Municipality, Gerald Karuhanga, who is the vice chairperson discovered  that […]

MPs quizz foreign affairs PS over illegal recruitment of staff

MPs quizz foreign affairs PS over illegal recruitment of staff

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has quizzed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary, Amb. Patrick Mugoya, over the irregular posting of staff members at the Uganda missions abroad. The Committee Chaired by the Soroti District Woman MP, Angelina Osege, while interfacing with the new PS wondered why Ugandan staffs assigned to work in foreign […]

MPs bast another ghost pensioners scam under the Ministry of Public Service

MPs bast another ghost pensioners scam under the Ministry of Public Service

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee is probing another ghost pensioners paid a tune of 12.7 billion shillings by the officials in the ministry of public service. MPs on the committee chaired by Soroti district Woman Member of Parliament, Angeline Ossege, while meeting the officials from the ministry of public service led by the ministry’s permanent […]

MPs order ministry of finance officials to avail a list of companies that duped government on the manufacture of textile items

MPs order ministry of finance officials to avail a list of companies that duped government on the manufacture of textile items

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has directed the ministry of finance to list private companies which benefited from the tax waiver for the supply of raw materials imported for manufacturing textiles but instead duped government when they supplied finished textile items. This was after members of the Committee Chaired by the Soroti district Member of […]

Former PS Patrick Mutabwire fails to account for diverted funds

Former PS Patrick Mutabwire fails to account for diverted funds

The former Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government, Patrick Mutabwire, last week  failed to explain to MPs the circumstances under which over 12 billion shillings was diverted. Mutabwire was appearing before the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee on Thursday Chaired by Soroti district Woman MP, Angelina Ossege. The money was meant to procure 111 vehicles […]

MP’s grill their own blaming his inefficiency while at Mulago hospital

MP’s grill their own blaming his inefficiency while at Mulago hospital

The Parliamentary public accounts committee has grilled Kachumbala County MP, Patrick Isiagi Opolot for inefficiency during the period he worked as an accountant at Mulago hospital. Isiagi had been summoned along other officials from Mulago hospital headed by the Executive Director Dr. Byarugaba Baterana to answer financial queries as indicated in the Auditor General’s Report […]

46bn shillings meant for Agricultural credit facility goes unused

46bn shillings meant for Agricultural credit facility goes unused

The parliamentary Public Accounts committee has grilled the officials in the Ministry of finance over 46 billion shillings which is lying idle yet it was meant for Agricultural credit facility for commercial farmers. The committee chaired by Jinja East Member of Parliament Paul Mwiru noted that 46 billion shillings of the Agricultural credit facility is idle […]

PAC committee discusses unused medical equipment at health centers with Ministry officials

PAC committee discusses unused medical equipment at health centers with Ministry officials

Members of parliament on the Parliamentary Public Accounts committee of parliament were upset by discovering that the Ministry of health supplied to health facilities in the country medical equipment and these are laying on their verandas. In the meeting with Ministry of health officials led by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of health, Dr. […]