By Mulengera Reporters
President Museveni is deliberate about the IGG playing a very big role in the Anita Among investigations in order to sanitize and give credibility to the entire exercise because that is the sort of work the Aisha Naluze-led office is mandated to do under the Constitution.
The Inspectorate might end up being the one to lead the prosecution of Anita Among in the Courts of law when that time comes and not the ODPP. As such, Gen Museveni has been in regular contact with the IGG who he wants to remain engaged and part and partial of the ongoing investigations.
In one of his latest interactions, Gen Museveni, to whom some preliminary report was tendered on Wednesday, asked the IGG to deliberately make sure the Office of Auditor General, whose current head Edward Akol was for long patronized by Anita Among, doesn’t play any part in the investigations.
When the IGG indicated there was need to have highly sophisticated auditors on the investigations team, Gen Museveni offered to get her one such auditor as opposed to allowing her use that as an excuse to borrow some personnel from the OAG, which the President wants investigated subsequently along with some actors at the nearby Finance Ministry. Gen Museveni believes that the OAG is part of the broader Among problem that has to be fixed once and for all.
The H.E. months earlier exhibited his contempt for the contemporary OAG when he shut up a URBRA official who, in Entebbe State House meeting, maintained his innocence on grounds that he had previously been investigated and cleared by the auditors from the same OAG. Museveni shut him up immediately saying “I don’t believe in Auditor General’s reports anymore…at least if you said cleared by the Internal Auditor General.”
That indicated how resigned Gen Museveni is when it comes to the OAG and unfortunately, its now clear that bias has persisted up to this day. One only hopes that the Anita Among-favored Edward Akol doesn’t end up being ousted like the ex-URA CG who was forced out weeks to the commencement of the new contract the board had just given her. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
