{UAH} Works ministry very corrupt – President

Whoever ate government money will pay

August 7, 2015

President Yoweri Museveni has expressed concern at the high level of
corruption in the Works ministry especially the road sector and said
road contractors do shoddy work with the knowledge of the government
officials. He said this has seen most of the roads being worn out
before their expected life span.

The President who was on a one day working visit in Kasese to promote
the wealth creation campaign made the remarks yesterday at a public
rally at Kyarumba sub-county headquarters in Bukonjo East county.

The President said he learnt that there has been alarming corruption
in the road sector where the government has been injecting a lot of
money to improve the road network in the country. He noted that as a
result of corruption, the country did not get value for her money as
contractors continuously colluded with government officials to do
shoddy work.

"I have been told that the Fort Portal – Kasese road is in that poor
state because it was poorly done due to corruption and we have to
reconstruct it after such a short time. This is unacceptable," he
said.

The President said he appointed a strict woman Allen Kagina, to head
Uganda National Road Authority and she asked him to appoint a judicial
commission of inquiry which he did to bring the culprits to book.

"What is important for people to know is that whoever ate government
money will have to pay it back on top of being punished in accordance
with the Law," he said.

The President said that government has allocated 6.6 million shillings
to the construction of a new and permanent bridge on River Nyamwamba
which was washed away by the recent floods in the area.

He said the National Resistance Movement government has registered
success in several sectors because of cohesive and strategic planning
that prioritizes the most important sectors of the economy such as
peace, roads, energy and human resource development.

"Many people have advocated for salary increase at the expense of
infrastructure development but we had to be firm and resist the
pressures because infrastructure developments have long term benefits
to the economy," he said.

On security the President assured Ugandans that their security is
guaranteed by the strength of the UPDF supported by the citizens.

"I want to thank Ugandans for supporting the UPDF because you are the
source of our army's strength and I can assure you national peace is
guaranteed" he noted.
On education; the President said that due to different interventions
and programs the national literacy rate is now at 78% but said that
government had embarked on a program of skilling Ugandans so as to
create jobs.

On health; the President said that government continues to immunize
all children against 13 diseases including survival cancer and
hepatitis B but warned the population against promiscuity that has
seen the rise in new HIV/Aids infections.

He said while government had done its part and will continue to
improve on service delivery, Ugandans needed to exploit the
developments to transform faster.

"As citizens your duty is to safeguard your lives, work to get out of
poverty, promote peace and safeguard that peace by voting wisely and
voting NRM that will guarantee that peace," he said.

He noted that to overcome poverty Ugandans especially in rural areas
needed to engage in modern agro production. He said the reason they
sent UPDF officers in all constituencies of Uganda was to supervise
the wealth creation program.

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