The corrupt will lose appetite for graft — Museveni
Museveni also said the bad actors involved in corruption would be exposed very soon and their appetite to steal taxpayers' money would be lost instantly.
Museveni also said the bad actors involved in corruption would be exposed very soon and their appetite to steal taxpayers' money would be lost instantly.
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KAMPALA - President Yoweri Museveni has vowed to curb the rampant corruption in Uganda.
"I will write to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID)," Museveni says.
The President made the remarks while addressing the nation on Thursday as a precursor to the commemoration of the 38th NRM Liberation Day anniversary celebrations slated to take place in Jinja city today, January 26, 2024.
The event will be at St John SSS Wakitaka in Jinja city northern division.
Museveni was disappointed by the financial year 2022/2023 Auditor General’s report handed over to Parliament, which indicates that more than 1,818 ghost workers are being paid by the Government and that more than shillings six billion was lost to ghost employees every month.
"Why did these people take the report to Parliament yet they knew the source," Museveni said as he promised to tackle the growing vice of corruption in the country that is derailing progress.
Museveni also said the bad actors involved in corruption would be exposed very soon and their appetite to steal taxpayers' money would be lost instantly.
The validation exercise that was carried out by the Auditor General indicates that the Government had been paying over shillings 53 billion annually to ghost employees.
The report focused on 367 entities comprising of 162 departments, 179 local governments, and 29 other government organisations in 2023.
The report was received by the Speaker Anita Among on January 9, 2024.
"Let us not have any backlog and let us not continue adopting reports which have not been scrutinised. It shows a vote of no confidence. But I believe that the Leader of Opposition is going to make things work out," Among said.
Among commended the Auditor General for promptly executing his mandate as prescribed in Article 163 (3) of the Constitution.
According to a 2021 report by the Inspector General of Government, shows that Uganda is estimated to be losing more than shillings 10 trillion every year in illicit flows and corruption.