Auditor General John Muwanga.

The Auditor General, John  Muwanga, has released a new audit report for the financial year 2015/16 showing escalating misuse of trillions shillings in government agencies and entities.

The report handed to the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga by  Muwanga indicated that government domestic debt increased by 446 billion shillings making a total of 2.7 trillion shillings government arrears.

The report faults the accounting officers in government entities of paying for domestic arrears which were previously not disclosed nor budgeted for.

The report further shows that 168 billion shillings was spent on items which do not reflect the nature the expenditure.

According to the  Auditor General’s analysis carried out on the government payroll, it was revealed that 11.3 billion shillings was paid irregularly by accounting officers in local government authorities through over payments, wrong salaries payments and unsupported pension payments.

Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga recieving the Auditor General John Muwanga’s report previously.

The Auditor General said that though he has experts with required skills for auditing any entity they can only contain corruption but that it is difficult to eliminate it totally and hence called for every one’s effort in the fight against the vice.

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Dr. Muvawala (right) with Dr.Kisamba Mugerwa who he replaced at National Planning Authority.

Otto’s remarks come shortly after the Executive Director to National Planning Authority, Dr.Joseph Muwala told a Parliamentary Committee on Budgets that they were constrained by unfulfilled pledges by the President.

He says that every time the President visits different constituencies and districts, the electorates ask him for different things which sometimes cannot be met because of the budget constraints.

He says each leader including LC 1 to be availed with a copy of the budget and a strategic plan and that anyone who asks the president for something that is not streamlined be arrested.

Otto says that it would be dangerous for the Authority to prioritize instructions other than an approved budget.

The Chairperson of the Budgetary Committee, Henry Musasizi , conquered with Otto saying that these unbudgeted pledges result into the President promising ‘air’ to his electorates.

Musasizi says there is need for government to adopt guiding principles which it should follow while making these pledges for better implementation of government plans.

However, the minister of state for planning, David Bahati refuted claims that the President promises air and instead blamed ministries which he says fail to capture the President’s pledges for implementation.

Bahati also says that in order to reduce the 400 billion domestic arrears government has ordered all ministries to make it a priority to pay all the companies that owe them money in this first quarter and they have instructed them to stop acquiring services from companies when they know they do not have the money to pay them.

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