Tag Archives: corruption

By Haggai Matsiko What difference will arrival of big American companies make? From Energy, oil and gas engineering, to advisory and legal services, American companies are increasingly scrambling and bagging Ugandan business contracts. In the last two years, over 10 top American companies have sealed big business deals and U.S. …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The scandals in OPM and the ministry of Public Service show a breakdown of the government’s financial management system Two scandals were exposed in Uganda simultaneously as 2012 came to an end; one in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), the other in the Ministry …

By Julius Businge Development Partners have urged the Ugandan government to improve its governance and anti-corruption efforts to spur economic growth and development. “Development Partners under the Joint Budget Support Framework broadly support the priorities set out by Government, which include infrastructure development, industrialization, enhanced agricultural productivity, human resource development …

By Aloysious Kasoma Democratic Party (DP) has today called upon Ugandans and political parties to join hands and fight corruption that has affected the country. “I call upon all Ugandans and political parties that corruption does not affect only Bishop Niringiye but the health and public service sectors are dead” said …

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 …