By Yusuf Serunkuma Debating the morality verses pragmatism of abandoning a project simply because an official has swindled money Dealing with social ills such as corruption pragmatically, that is, realistically, as opposed to moralistically or ideally continues to divide discourse on how societies should respond to ills for the benefit …
Read More »Graft: thinking out of the box
Many states in this world have corrupt officials. In Uganda, the corrupt have a state Over the last year Uganda has latched from one major corruption scandal to another. The paradox of our nation’s corruption is that although it goes on with impunity, it does not go on with impunity. …
Read More »Name, shame the corrupt
By Joan Akello Since the first Anti-Corruption Convention in 2011, the Ugandan National Non Government Organisation Forum (UNNGOF) and other activists against corruption said Uganda has lost not less than 1.3 trillion shillings to corruption. They cited deplorable health services across the country, ill facilitated educational infrastructure, spiraling poverty levels, …
Read More »Corruption and development
By Christopher Blattman If corruption hurts growth, why have economists not found much evidence for it? Should foreign donors care about corruption in developing countries? Or is corruption an Anglo-American fetish? Corruption infuriates me as much as the next person. It is despicable, pure and simple. But Westerners care about …
Read More »Best way to fight corruption
By Andrew M. Mwenda Focus on the civil service where graft is most lethal rather than in politics where it is most politically attractive Over the last three weeks, government of Uganda has done what was previously unthinkable. First, police rearrested the ringleaders in the scam in the ministry of …
Read More »Corruption, economy and army key issues in the debate
By Julius Odeke In the first of its kind Ugandans witnessed a debate among the presidential hopefuls who are racing for the top seat in the FDC party in order to replace Dr Kizza Besigye in three days time from now. The debate was moderated by a veteran journalist Peter …
Read More »Corruption could resurrect rebellion – Mao
By Aloysious Kasoma Opposition Democratic Party has revealed that the current corruption scandals in the Office of the Prime Minister could resurrect the spirit of rebellion in northern Uganda. According to Norbert Mao the party president, corruption will create another Joseph Kony in northern Uganda if it is not condemned. …
Read More »Corruption threatens Shs 950bn Education projects
By Peter Nyanzi Ordinarily, the police would arrest anyone found with government property at his home and charge him with “possession of government stores.” But in Sembabule District, the police are instead thanking people who were found using hundreds of school desks and chairs at their homes. The citizens told …
Read More »Fighting corruption the wrong way
By Julius Odeke Uganda Federal Alliance party president, Beti Kamya, spoke to The Independent’s Julius Odeke about Uganda’s problems, including corruption. Your Uganda Federal Alliance (UFA) wants Federo in Uganda. What type of federo are you agitating for? Actually, I think there is a slight difference between Federo and Federalism. …
Read More »Minister appeals to Ugandans to be calm over corruption
By Julius Odeke The minister for ethics Fr. Simon Lokodo says Uganda is currently besieged with very worrying allegations of grand corruption notably, the mismanagement of funds in the Office of the Prime Minister totaling to Shs. 38.3 billion. He says the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government in 1986 inherited …
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