In Uganda, one of the most corrupt countries on earth, the government of long serving President Yoweri Museveni will inject nearly Shs200bn in the fight against corruption in the next financial year. Ruling NRM party officials announced the move by Museveni Government to Inject Shs200bn in Corruption Fight after a parliamentary caucus.
The caucus of National Resistance Movement (NRM) MPs discussed priorities for the 2025-26 National Budget. After the meeting, State Minister for Finance Henry Musasizi told reporters that government would spend Shs198.7bn to fight graft.
Musasizi said the money will go to agencies like Beti Kamya’s Inspectorate of Government and the Office of the Auditor General.
“In the budget for next year, we shall provide Shs198.7bn to facilitate the efforts to eliminate corruption and these funds will go through the following agencies. One is the Directorate of Ethics and Integrity, two is the Inspectorate of Government, and three is the Office of the Auditor General,” he noted.
“These are some of the agencies that are responsible for fighting corruption and we intend to enhance and support their budgets with an amount of Shs198bn.”
IGG Beti Kamya recently said that up to 85 per cent of government employees had paid bribes to get jobs, if a study by the Inspectorate of Government in at least 20 districts of Uganda is anything to go by.
Last year, the IGG also claimed that Uganda loses up to 44 per cent (or Shs9tn) of its national revenue to corruption.
President Museveni himself has claimed that government jobs were on sale for a few millions, and in some cases with women paying with their bodies. (See Details Here and There).
A few years ago, The Pearl Times reported that some teachers had to pay as much as Shs2m for each teaching job on government payroll, claims that the Education Service Commission (ESC) rejected. (See Details Here).
Such allegations were also raised by a Ugandan MP who claimed that some government officials, including ministers, had eaten bribes of up to Shs20m to hire RDCs and deputy RDCs, with those who failed to pay losing out on jobs. (See Details Here, There and Over There).
As The Pearl Times has previously reported, IGG Beti Kamya has previously told Ugandans to be serious about the fight against corruption, making it clear to them that she and other powerful government officials may not die at Mulago Hospital but would have to be flown abroad, and that their posh vehicles do not feel the potholes. Interestingly, as we have reported even the IGG was to be investigated over corruption. (See Details Here, There and Over There).
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