Beti Olive Kamya, the Inspector General of Government (IGG,) has pledged that soon her office will issue a comprehensive report showing all corruption deals in the Office of the Prime Minister.
This revelation was made on Tuesday while at Uganda Media Centre. She said the Karamoja iron sheet saga is a minute issue compared to many unseen corruption deals that take place within OPM.
Shs however asked Ugandans to be patient as her office finalizes the investigations and in three week time, she will be done with the report which will be disclosed to the country.
“As I said we decided to go deeper and investigate the entire relief and pacification program in the Office of the Prime Minister for the past two years (past two Financial Years). You remember that Shs39 bn was only for the pacification of Karamoja through a supplementary budget but before that, for two years there were a lot more resources that were deployed for relief and pacification perhaps in OPM,” she said.
Kamya noted that to discover such corruption tendencies within OPM that took place two years ago, it took a lot of highly qualified investigators who have dug deeper into the policies (where it was generated), procurement of so many things that were meant for Karamoja, distribution channels, deliveries, storage, and many others.
Currently, the Office of Prime Minister is battling with Karamoja iron sheet scandal which came to light in February when one of the dailies reported that security officials in the eastern region had intercepted government-branded iron sheets being sold by relatives of Kitutu, the minister in charge of Karamoja Affairs Dr Mary Goretti Kitutu.
To date, three ministers; Mary Goretti Kitutu for Karamoja Affairs, State Minister for Karamoja Affairs Agnes Nandutu, and state minister for Finance and Planning Amos Lugoloobi have been arrested and charged.
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