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‘I Forced UBOS Officials to Cough Stolen Money & Will Investigate Dr Mukiza’s Census Numbers, Budget’

IGG on Investigating UBOS, ED Dr Chris Mukiza Over Census Numbers

Inspector General of Government (IGG) Beti Kamya has hinted on a plot to investigate Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) Executive Director Dr Chris Mukiza’s 2024 census numbers. IGG Beti Kamya has also reminded Ugandans how she once forced UBOS officials to cough stolen money.

UBOS officially released the results of the 2024 National Population and Housing Census (NPHC) but errors in the figures made some suspect that the numbers released by Dr Mukiza’s agency could have been cooked.

Now IGG Beti Kamya has confirmed she is interested in investigating UBOS and Dr Mukiza’s 2024 census numbers. The Inspector General of Government, who is the National Ombudsman of Uganda, says she will probe the processes undertaken by Dr Mukiza and his UBOS officials.

A census is carried out every 10 years. This means that Dr Mukiza and his team had a whole decade to prepare for the 2024 population census. Apparently, the IGG would like to know what the agency did in those 10 years in preparation for the census.

IGG Beti Kamya has also confirmed that she will be interested in a financial audit for UBOS, given how the Inspectorate of Government (IG) forced the bureau’s officials to cough up to Shs 1 billion they had irregularly acquired.

“To be quite honest, I have also been reading in the paper the provisional results where the public had serious issues with UBOS and we shall definitely get involved in auditing not only the money, but also the processes,” said IGG Beti Kamya as she popularized the commemoration of the Ombuds Day 2024 celebrated every second Thursday of October.

“[UBOS] had 10 years to prepare for this census I can assure you that the Inspectorate of Government speaks with authority and we shall carry out the probe. It was not long ago in around 2022 we investigated and forced some employees of UBOS to return Shs 1 billion and as I speak 70 per cent have returned it.”

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Samuel Kamugisha

Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, language instructor, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. A Makerere University graduate of Journalism and Communication with a decade-long experience in news reporting, writing and editing, Kamugisha is Editor at The Pearl Times. Most of his previous work was published by The Observer. When he is not doing journalism work -- which is rare -- Kamugisha will be reading or writing a short story or a poem, or caught up in the writer's block.

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