By Mulengera Reporters
Monday 22nd September is the last day Beti Kamya will be having at the office to complete her term as the Inspector General of Government (IGG). She was appointed in July 2021 and assumed office in September after taking oath and getting inaugurated.
Her four-year term is coming to an end amidst uncertainty deriving from the fact that Gen Museveni, just like the rest of the country, remains dissatisfied with the way she has led the fight against corruption.
Museveni recently demonstrated diminished interest in Beti Kamya when he praised one of her deputies at a public function in Migera Nakasongora and even didn’t make any mention of her even when was seated right there in front of him.
The same Museveni had months earlier shut up a government MDA Executive Director who praised himself during a meeting at State House by asserting that “Your Excellence I’m not the corrupt inefficient bad person the Board keeps saying I’m. I’m so clean in all my dealings and even the IGG recently cleared me.” Museveni quickly cut him short and informed everyone at the meeting that “I don’t believe in such reports anymore.”
He made it clear he believes in some other investigative mechanisms and not the type the embattled ED was making reference to. All this indicated the little faith the President currently has in the Beti Kamya era ombudsman.
The President, who is fully aware of the 22nd deadline, has opted to remain totally indifferent and Beti Kamya has so far not been able to get any signal as to whether she will be getting contract extension or not.
The President has occasionally complained of such investigating agencies being full of kawukumi actors who actually betray and sell out whistle blowers, who risk to give them information implicating the corrupt, as opposed to shielding and protecting them.
Beti Kamya is actually having her contract expire and run out on the same day as that of her two deputies Ann Muhairwe and Dr. Patricia Achan Okiria.
This simply means that, unlike what happened with Kamya’s predecessor Irene Mulyagonja whose tenure expired as those of her two deputies George Bamugemereire and Mariam Wangadya continued running, this time round the Inspectorate will have no one eligible to carry on in the acting capacity after 22nd of this very month. The trio took oath and assumed office on the same day.
Sources indicate that some other people (not from within the Inspectorate) are already being vetted in close collaboration with Gen Salim Saleh and that the President is determined to occasion some changes at the Inspectorate, out of necessity.
And quite understandably, the ongoing absence of signal from the President has caused plenty of anxiety at the Inspectorate as none of three can, with certainty, predict what is coming. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
