Tag Archives: corruption

By Joseph Bossa Will Ugandans and donors wake up and fight corruption or tolerate it to the extent that it ceases to shock? A little more than forty years ago, an observation was made that foreign aid was aid from the poor people of the rich countries to the rich people …

By Aloysious Kasoma The office of the Inspector General of Government launched the third annual report on tracking corruption trends in Uganda using the Data Tracking Mechanism. The IGG, Irene Mulyagonja said that the Data Tracking Mechanism was initiated in 2009 as a strategy design to make an impact on …

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 …

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. …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …