A Report from the Ministry of Health indicates that lose of government medicine to the fraudulent health workers is on increase. While addressing a press conference in Kampala Dr. Diana Atwine, the head of the recently Medicines and Health Service Delivery Monitoring Unit said several health officials across the country are being investigated over medicine […]
Fellow Countrymen and Women, RE: ABUSE OF TAXPAYERS’ MONEY AND WASTAGE OF PUBLIC FUNDS BY GOVERNMENT AND PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA AND 6 ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! As you read this letter, just remember that your primary loyalty is to our country and our flag. Also remember that almost 10 million of […]
Though not referring to themselves particularly, many respondents said people vote whoever buys them a drink, or gives them some little money. The defense for this kind of attitude and behavior was that all the people they elect are the same- all good promises and no helpful action on the ground. Actually the term used in two groups to describe elections was “choosing who to go and eat this time” .
The Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Authority (PPDA) has released the second corruption perception index report underlying new trends of corruption which are continuing to hamper better service provision in Uganda. In a report released recently, the PPDA found that most service providers are paying bribes to access work at the different local governments […]
The government has sounded a strong warning against health workers who are engaged in corruption related practices. President Yoweri Museveni says the government is set to intensify efforts to arrest health workers who abscond from work, solicit for money from patients and those who steal government medical drugs for use in their private clinics. He […]
The office of the Inspector General of Government (IGG) is carrying out its own investigation into mismanagement of CHOGM funds following the report by Parliamentary Public Accounts committee that implicated top ministers in the embezzlement of over 500 billion shillings. The IGG, Raphael Baku, says they studying the parliamentary report on the financial scandal surrounding […]
By Mugisa Isaac Mathias Members of Parliament have called for an audit of the National Water and Sewage Corporation, one of the few surviving government parastatals in Uganda. The demand comes after certain issues raised by whistle blowers which point at corruption, financial impropriety and abuse of office by top official of the water body. […]
The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has ordered that the office of the Director of Public Prosecution presents the list of officials that were implicated in the mismanagement of Global Fund cash but have since admitted to the mismanagement and decided to return the cash. So far over 2 billion shillings has been returned from officials […]
The Inspector General of Government Rapheal Baku is blaming his failure to catch the big fish in the fight against corruption on inadequate resources. The IGG has often been accused of targeting the lower level officials in government while the higher ranking officials, who take even more of the tax payers’ money in corrupt practices […]
The Directorate of Ethics and Integrity has handed over 60 motorcycles worth over 1 billion shillings to the Uganda Police Anti Corruption Squad to ease the transport of the police in their work of curbing corruption in Uganda. These motorcycles are part of the project by USAID on corruption that started in 2007 and ended […]