While addressing media houses on Monday at Kololo Independence Grounds in Kampala, the President hinted that he will be in touch with the speaker of parliament aimed at bringing a law that will be discussed in parliament to fight corruption.

He also added that he will also have to engage with the Chief Justice to find way of curbing corruption in courts.

“We shall enact a law that allows us to confiscate property of government officers accused of corruption. I will talk to the Speaker and the Chief Justice to see how to fight corruption in Parliament and the Judiciary,” he said.

The President urged the public to coordinate with the newly State House Anti-Corruption Unit established to be headed by Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema.

He accused a section of public servants particularly the Permanent Secretaries of different government ministries, town clerks, chief administrative officers, sub county chairpersons and parish chiefs of fueling corruption.

“Those public servants who think or feel they are tired of working and promoting integrity should leave. I’m not ready to continue dealing with them. Even the public is also tired of hearing stories about corrupt officers,” he said.

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Things are not all fine for the Member of Parliament for Budadiri west, Nathan Nandala Mafabi after his party’s National Executive Committee decided to grill him over reportedly shielding corrupt officials in Forum for Democratic Change.

Nandala, according to sources sitting on the National Executive Committee of FDC, will be grilled on Wednesday this week at the FDC head offices in Najjanankumbi, on Kampala-Entebbe road.

Nandala will be grilled further because many times he has failed to act on complaints against FDC officials whom have been ‘stealing’ the party funds the party has been getting from the donors.

Mafabi will also be grilled because recently when the Public Accounts Committee of parliament was investigating the controversial compensation to Kampala businessman Hassan Basajjabalaba, a senior government official approached the FDC MPs and reportedly bribed them. The MP for Terego Kasiano Wadri reported the matter to Mafabi but still Mafabi declined to act.

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The Directorate of Ethics and Integrity is in final stages of drafting a bill that will allow individual Ugandans to sue corrupt government ministers, president among other public officials.

The bill against the corrupt will be called ‘’quintum bill 2012.’ The bill will allow individual Ugandans to provide information and the Attorney General will be required to support that individual Ugandan or Ugandans in courts of law.

 The minister of state for Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo says that the individual Ugandan or group of people who will win a case against the corrupt public servants will get 25% of the proceeds of the suit.

He says that when stolen items are recovered, they will have to be sold and the people who filed the case will get 25% of the sale proceeds. We are told that the bill is being financed by the World Bank and Amnesty international.

Ultimate Media

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