President Museveni has faulted the inspector general of government over surging corruption in government offices saying they have retarded the development and diversification of Ugandan economy.
Museveni instead announced that he had a new team of three persons that would handle corruption.
Museveni remarked that corruption interferes with the patriotic attitudes of freedom fighters, and called upon the general public to report all corruption cases to an instituted a team led by former Secretary General of Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATU)James Tweheyo, Ms. Martha Asiimwe and sister Akiror for proper manning down of corruption.
“The purpose of the IGG’s Office was to protect the public from corrupt officials, What happened to the IGG? Why don’t the victims of corruption report those incidents to the office of the IGG?” Museveni wondered.
He further continued “That was the purpose of that office; to protect the public from corrupt officials; to protect the investors against corrupt officials. The IGG should reflect on this. Are her staff credible? Why does the public not trust that institution? We need answers”.
He revealed that In order to speed up in monitoring economic production and service delivery, government will offer bicycles to parish chiefs saying it is quite and health for him to peddle around to monitor and inspect.
“The only element of security is the acquaissance of the public by not reporting these criminals, otherwise there is no crime that we cannot handle report corruption a cross to the instituted unit,” he said.
Museveni’s frustration against IGG come at the time when there is public outcry over corruption. The IGG and Financial Intelligence Authority are currently being accused by a youth group Youth Crusaders of failure by the two institutions to investigate former Executive Director in charge of Supervision over corruption and money laundering . Despite whistle blowers reporting Bagyenda three months ago, both institutions haven’t produced any report on her.
Senior officials who have been tried over corruption: former ministers, Herbert Kabafunzaki, Eng Abraham Byandala. Others are former National Social Security Fund boss, David Chandi Jamwa, the former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Service Jimmy Lwamafa, former Principal Accountants, Godfrey Kazinda and Christopher Obey among others.
