The Deputy Inspector General of Government , Mariam Wangadya has said
prosecution witnesses and people who report corruption cases frustrate
efforts to have the suspects brought to book by refusing to testify in
court. This, she said, has hindered the work of the office, leading to
the dropping of cases due to lack of evidence.
She also disclosed
that sh632m was recovered from corrupt officials last year and paid on
to the IGG asset recovery account, although she declined to mention
names.
Wangadya said that the IGG recently stopped the payment of sh29b to former Internal Security Organisation (1SO) former employees after it discovered that their purported representatives had failed to account for sh10b which was already paid out. Of the sh10b already released, sh7b had been paid to lawyers as “professional fees”, which she described as theft. Wangadya said in spite of their commitment in carrying out their constitutional mandate to investigate corruption and hold individuals accountable for misuse of public resources, they face challenges of legal battles, absence of a leadership code tribunal, limited human and financial resource and technology that have made corruption hard to detect.
According to Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU) last year’s report, bribery is the highest form of corruption with 24%, nepotism favoritism and tribalism 22%, embezzlement and theft 20%, forgery/fraud 16%, neglect of duty 11% and finally selling of public goods at 7%.
The report also states that 21.8% respondents perceived medical institutions as the most corrupt.
17% considered corruption to exist in schools while 11.3% of the study respondents considered corruption to exist in police and judiciary.
Wangadya said that the IGG recently stopped the payment of sh29b to former Internal Security Organisation (1SO) former employees after it discovered that their purported representatives had failed to account for sh10b which was already paid out. Of the sh10b already released, sh7b had been paid to lawyers as “professional fees”, which she described as theft. Wangadya said in spite of their commitment in carrying out their constitutional mandate to investigate corruption and hold individuals accountable for misuse of public resources, they face challenges of legal battles, absence of a leadership code tribunal, limited human and financial resource and technology that have made corruption hard to detect.
According to Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU) last year’s report, bribery is the highest form of corruption with 24%, nepotism favoritism and tribalism 22%, embezzlement and theft 20%, forgery/fraud 16%, neglect of duty 11% and finally selling of public goods at 7%.
The report also states that 21.8% respondents perceived medical institutions as the most corrupt.
17% considered corruption to exist in schools while 11.3% of the study respondents considered corruption to exist in police and judiciary.
The study was carried out in Amuria and Masindi districts. It further states that police officers are the most corrupt officials
with 29%, civil servants 25%, local council officers 21%, politicians
12%, courts of law/judiciary 9%, community 3% and NGOs/ organizations at
2%.
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