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.

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A controversy in assignments has risen up between Inspector General of Government’s (IGG) office and the resident district commissioners across the country.

Under Ugandan laws it is the Inspector General of Government (IGG) mandated to follow up the corrupt public servants and bring them to book.

However the president of Uganda , Gen. Yoweri Museveni after realizing that something was may be not going on well in the IGG’s office, has assigned RDC’s to investigate corruption in their areas of jurisdiction.

The RDC for Wakiso, Dan Kaguta tells this informer that Museveni has directed all RDC’s to add probing corruption on their duty roster.  Kaguta says that the corrupt should now develop high blood pressure because RDCs are out to hunt them in their hideouts.

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Sekikubo says that probably the corrupt in the government will develop fears and stop miss managing public resources.

Sekikubo says that corruption in Uganda is affecting Ugandans in all walks of life but the corrupt continue to walk scot free. Sekikubo says that civil courts waste a lot of time looking for evidence.

Currently Ugandan civilians can only be tried in court martial under the anti terrorism act, which provides that a civilian found with a gun can be tried in a court martial.

In fact the act says that the state has to produce evidence that the weapon found with a civilian is a monopoly of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces.

Sekikubo also says that even workers at statehouse who are reported to be corrupt should be always tried in court martial to create fear among public officials not to engage in corruption related acts. Recently president Museveni also proposed that the corrupt people should be tried in court martial.

By James Okello

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