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Government told not to interfere in corruption fight

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The Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU), an advocacy civil society organisation has insisted government should keep a distance from institutions that fight corruption in Uganda if the vice is to reduce.

Speaking to The Independent in an interview on September 3, Cissy Kagaba the executive director of ACCU said: “The problem is with government interfering with the roles of the judiciary and other bodies involved in the fight against corruption. That should stop.”

Kagaba also advised government to fire corrupt officers instead of keeping them in government. “There are many cases where you find an officer who committed offenses in one ministry being transferred in another,” she said, adding that cannot help in the fight against corruption.

She urged the members of the public to join the fight against corruption instead of “saying its government and civil society organisations responsible to do that”.

The 2012 East African Bribery Index says more than 50% of the sampled respondents believe that Uganda is “extremely corrupt” followed by Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi at 48%, 41% and 27% respectively. Rwanda recorded the least affirmative responses to the “extremely corrupt” score at two per cent.

The report says Ugandan institutions lead in demanding for bribes in the region with 40.7%, Tanzania follows with 39.1%, Kenya with 29.5% and Burundi, which was the worst surveyed country last year, recorded a relatively lower rate at 18.8%.

Rwanda recorded the least chances of a bribe exchanging hands at a score of 2.5%.

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