Corruption fight paying off â€" Lwanga

Aug 08, 2003

GOVERNmeNT efforts to fight corruption are increasingly yielding good results, ethics and integrity state minister Tim Lwanga said on Thursday.

By Geresom Musamali

GOVERNmeNT efforts to fight corruption are increasingly yielding good results, ethics and integrity state minister Tim Lwanga said on Thursday.

Lwanga, who was meeting the US ambassador, Jimmy Kolker, at his office at Nakasero, said Transparency International ranked Uganda the third most corrupt country last year, but this year the country had improved to 7th position.

“Our aim is to get out of the list altogether. I am sure with partners such as the United States of America, we cannot fail,” Lwanga said.

“We cannot afford to slacken our struggle at this point because we are beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel,” he added.

He said he was happy to see that Kolker, a former fellow student at Makerere University, was now the American envoy.

Kolker said Uganda was one of the few countries in the world which have a ministry for ethics and integrity as well as specialised institutions for fighting corruption.

He said Unites States of America would like to see the pursuit and prosecution of all the suspected corrupt public officers who have been exposed in the various commissions of enquiry that have been carried out.
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