Plan Leaked!! Museveni Finally Reveals The Tactics Used By His Ministers And Other Government Officials To Steal Public Funds

President Museveni has said a group of officials from the Ministry of Finance connive with accounting officers from various ministries to steal public funds.

“I have been hearing stories that there is a racket from the Ministry of Finance to Parliament,” said Museveni in his state-of-the-nation address on Thursday.

“I have been hearing but now I have proof,” he added.

“They work with accounting officers from different ministries to come to Parliament to ask for certain funds and then they share the money,” said Museveni.

“For sure the corrupt don’t know how strong we are, we are patient but if you make a mistake, you will see.”

Museveni did not mention names.He, however, said the thieves are “now in trouble.”

Corruption is one of the major obstacles that undermines Uganda’s short as well as long term development.

Although substantial investments and efforts have been made to combat corruption in Uganda, the effects of anti-corruption interventions remain modest at best, and corruption continues to impose wide-ranging costs on society.

Fully eradicating corruption in Uganda is estimated to result in total societal savings of at least Shs 9.1 trillion which is equivalent to 44% of total government revenue in 2019.

In other words, corruption cost each Ugandan in 2019 at least Shs 200,000. These figures include both direct and in-direct costs of corruption.

On Transparency International’s 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, Uganda scored 26 on a scale from 0 (“highly corrupt”) to 100 (“very clean”). When ranked by score, Uganda ranked 141st among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector.

Early this week, the Minister of State for Investment and Privatisation Hon Evelyn Anite said corruption is increasingly tarnishing the image of the government.The Minister said she was personally facing difficulty stepping out as a cabinet minister for fear of public ridicule.

“Corruption is making us very unpopular,” she said.

“We are tired; I am fatigued and even ashamed to sit in a government car, because whatever you do if you dress smartly (people say) our money…this is because citizens are aware that we are eating their money and they are tired.”