A proposal fronted by General Salim Saleh asking the Inspector General of Government to offer amnesty to public servants for accumulating illicit wealth has been rejected.

The Inspector General of Government, Ms Irene Mulyagonja, has turned down the said proposal by Gen. Saleh to extend amnesty to public servants who have illicitly accumulated wealth over the years.

Mulyagonja says the Inspectorate of Government (IG) could not adopt . Saleh’s proposals because they “do not fit in the legal, socio-economic, cultural and political environment of Uganda today.”

In an email to Ms Mulyagonja on January 1, Gen. Saleh, who is President Museveni’s brother and senior presidential advisor on military matters, asked the IG to declare an amnesty for all public servants who have accumulated wealth illegally and are willing to “publicly declare their loot”

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