By Mulengera Reporters
The top leadership at Auditor House, headed by Auditor General Edward Akol, have lost their patience and swung their axe by sanctioned (sending home) 20 principal regional auditors to pave way for comprehensive investigations into persistent corruption and extortion allegations.
As these are being sent home to keep away from their offices during the inquest period, a total of 60 other auditors will have to have sleepless nights as Audit House seeks to establish why for all these years, they hadn’t been able to unearth the rot to the magnitude Minister Balaam Barugahara has been unveiling in just weeks. In just weeks, Balaam has been able expose what all these well enumerated auditors were unable to unearth for all these years.
The latest sanctioning of the Principal Auditor for Arua regional branch Martine Wamboza, his deputy one Ivan has raised panic at the Audit House about what a section of auditors has described as selective purging based on intrigue, personal vendetta and desire to settle old scores.
The other principal auditors who have been sanctioned include Principal Auditor regional branch Masaka: Hilda Bakojja and her deputies, Nathan Mutebi and Nalwebuga Herbert.
Principal Auditor regional branch Moroto: Samuel Akampurira & Principal Auditor regional branch Hoima Tracy Turyakira too haven’t been spared.
Turyakira formerly headed Mulago National Referral Hospital as Principal Auditor and was previously linked to some controversy only to be saved by someone who was a very supportive and possessive supervisor of hers as of that time. As an off-ramp, she was transferred to the Hoima Regional Audit branch.
Principal Auditor regional branch Jinja Michael Omoding Noel also has been negatively impacted over suspected improper actions. Principal Auditor Regional Audit branch Mbale Agon and his deputy Moses Kusemererwa have also been impacted as comprehensive investigations get underway. Some of the staff working under these sanctioned superiors have previously been cited in suspected corruption and extortionist acts-which their superiors are supposed to have detected and mitigated.
The most interesting about the latest purge has to do with Agon and Omoding who are nephews of one of the big persons at the Audit house. The decision to exert consequences upon them explains that what is coming in the coming days, weeks and months is going to be of the magnitude no one could have anticipated.
Principal Auditor Regional Audit branch Soroti: Michael Omagor has also been negatively impacted interdicted on the account of not doing enough to crack the whip on suspected extortion and corruption by some subordinates under their supervision.
Also equally impacted was the Principal Auditor for Central government based in Kampala about whom the relevant details will be disclosed later at a more appropriate moment.
The other equally sanctioned are junior Auditors at the Audit House in Kampala.
The latest sanctioning comes at a time of growing curiosity and relentless scrutiny by Civil Society Organizations leaders and some MPs who have been demanding to see the OAG do more to amplify the transparency cause while demanding for value for money on public funds. There has been speculation that some of Principal Accounting Officers and Principal Accountants there haven’t been acting patriotically and prudently enough when unleashed to oversee sensitive audit investigations.
Quite often, its claimed, the auditors aren’t acting tough enough on the perceived wrongdoers. Stakeholders with such concerns will consider any efforts by the top leadership to sanction some ill-intentioned auditors as timely. The same purging that is inevitably going to get underway will be accepted by many as being consistent with the President’s declaration and readiness to have 2026-2031 as the real no sleep Kisanja.
President Museveni has lately been intervening in a growing number of government institutions demanding comprehensive investigations while deploying his executive order tool that has become synonymous with the term blue letter.
The latest victim has been the Registrar General of Companies Mercy Kainobwisho, the very reformist head of URSB, who has since been interdicted by the IGG who is supposed to have been instigated by the big man from Rwakitura.
It’s increasingly becoming clear that the President, and the citizens are sick and tired of the indolent government MDA heads who don’t swiftly act upon being notified of possible corruption and extortionist dealings implicating their subordinates.
This is why the country’s top executive is weaponizing his blue letter tool to intervene as a way of remedying the situation. And so far, its clear this swiftness is what citizens, who sent him back to State House with 7m last January, are very enthusiastic about the decisiveness with which the President has lately been acting. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
