The Inspectorate of Government (IG) has put out a notice that in two months time will name and shame corrupt public officials who have noted complied with recommendations from the Inspectorate of Government, or rulings arising from corruption and abuse of office cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These include Chief Administrative Officers (CAOs), and officers from Ministries, Departments, and Agencies-MDAs. The Inspector General of Government, Beti Olive Kamya, said that the inspectorate is consolidating information about the implicated officers for publication. She notes that whoever would not have updated their records with the IG, will appear on the list of the corrupt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Kamya, the display will help change the public perception of the Inspectorate of Government. She explains that due to the non-compliance of the officers, many Ugandan see the Inspectorate as non-efficient yet it executes its mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have been doing investigations, issuing orders and plea bargains, and assuming that people are going to pay. We have been missing a mechanism to make people pay, yet we have recovered a lot of money on paper, that is why we put up this Follow-Up unit to concentrate on this work and after two months, we are going to publish all the defaulters in cash or kind,\u201d Kamya said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She revealed this while commissioning the IG\u2019s Follow-Up unit, a new department that is mandated to ensure that its orders and court rulings arising from its cases are implemented by the concerned parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Kamya, the IG is currently investigating several cases worth up to 500 billion Shillings, which are nearing completion. She says that she is very optimistic, that all this money will also be recovered despite their limited investigative capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs an institution, we don\u2019t have enough staff. In Uganda, unlike in many other countries, all the ombudsman\u2019s work and the corruption fight are fused under one inspectorate that\u2019s why we are constrained. We are doing the work of three people with the facilitation of one that is why capacity is the problem,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking about the Follow-Up unit, Kamya said it is a permanent integration in the IG management structure, and it doesn\u2019t come with any additional costs because the selected officers are employees of the Inspectorate who have just changed roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis unit\u2019s composition has been carefully selected, from all the inspectorate employees, and the team will be headed by a person at the rank of manager. Other than other unit managers, this one will report directly to the IGG, not to the director,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The inaugural Follow-Up unit will be led by Victor Acidri, as its manager, and Simon Ariko as the supervisor. Other members include Jemimah Zawedde, Julian Nantale, Wilfred Gumisiriza, and Diana Nakkazi Mirembe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Acidri says that as a unit, they are taking on the responsibility to change the IG from the perceived scarecrow. \u201cIt has been talked about that the IG just investigates or prosecutes and stops there. But from today that is history, we are going to follow the corrupt until we recover what belongs to the government. We need to reach the implementation stage of more than 55 percent, as stated in the national development plan, and we don\u2019t want to use resources, investigate, prosecute and stop there. We have to recover and for those who don\u2019t want to comply we shall shame them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Records from the IG, indicate that Uganda loses up to Shillings 20 trillion annually to corruption and abuse of office-related cases. The Inspectorate has managed to recover 30 billion Shillings this year and interdict 50 public servants, mostly CAOs. The inspectorate has also secured 34 convictions out of 86 prosecution cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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