Ultimate Media
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has tasked the Ministry of Defense in Uganda to explain its failure to provide accountability of payments for Uganda People's Defense Forces currently deployed in Somalia. The committee has heard today that the Auditor General has failed to trace over 70 billion shillings sent by the African Union as payment of salaries to the soldiers.
The permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Rose Byengoma has explained to the MPs that the ministry thought it was only accountable to the African Union, an explanation the legislators rejected.
One of the committee members, Tom Kazibwe, explains that the ministry has been directed to create a new account for the payments and the Auditor General's office asked to follow up the matter as billions of shillings may have been misused by the ruling government in conjunction with Uganda Peoples Defence Forces.
Source: Ultimate Media