Tag Archives: Probe

A fresh audit has thrown Uganda’s fuel monitoring system into the spotlight, exposing troubling gaps in oversight, questionable decisions and rising fuel adulteration despite billions of shillings being pumped into the program meant to safeguard the country’s petroleum supply chain. The latest report by the Office of the Auditor General on the Fuel Marking and Quality Monitoring Program (FMQP) reveals …

Kampala — Uganda’s insurance watchdog is under intense scrutiny after a blistering audit report exposed financial irregularities, governance gaps and failure to implement key consumer protection mechanisms, raising tough questions about leadership at the regulator. The explosive findings contained in the latest report by the Office of the Auditor General of Uganda have placed the Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda …

A storm is gathering around the Office of the Prime Minister of Uganda after a devastating Value for Money audit exposed deep cracks in the government’s flagship affirmative action programmes meant to uplift some of the country’s most marginalized communities. The explosive findings from the December 2025 report by the Auditor General paint a troubling picture of poor planning, weak …

Kampala — It was supposed to be a silent guardian of Uganda’s highways. A steel gatekeeper standing firm against overloaded trucks chewing up billions in taxpayer-funded roads. Instead, the Ministry of Works’ weighbridge system has been exposed as weak, overstretched, under-calibrated and dangerously mismanaged — allowing axle-load bandits to roll on almost unchecked. A blistering Value for Money audit by …

A Value for Money audit has detonated a political and administrative bombshell at the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, exposing deep cracks in Uganda’s land administration system despite years of digitalisation and decentralisation reforms. At the centre of the storm is the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, headed administratively by Permanent Secretary Dorcas W. Okalany, who …

Kampala — The latest Auditor General’s report on the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) reads like a catalogue of missed opportunities, stalled projects and internal power struggles at Uganda’s top agricultural research body. At the centre of the storm is the Director General, Dr. Yona Baguma, whose four-year contract runs out next year April. Appointed in April 2023 by the …

Uganda’s forests are meant to be protected by law, technology and tough oversight. Instead, the latest December 2025 Auditor General’s report has exposed what insiders are calling a “digital disaster” and deep management cracks at the National Forestry Authority. At the heart of the storm is the much-hyped Electronic Licensing System — a flagship digital reform meant to modernise licensing, …

Uganda is sitting on a silent epidemic, and the numbers are chilling. Fourteen million Ugandans — roughly 32 percent of the population — are estimated to be battling some form of mental disorder. Yet only about 10 percent are receiving treatment. As cases surge, the Auditor General’s December 2025 Value for Money audit on the Provision of Mental Health Services …

For an institution created to sniff out dirty money and choke financial crime at its roots, the spotlight is now uncomfortably fixed on the watchdog itself. A damning Value for Money audit in the December 2025 report by the Auditor General has exposed glaring weaknesses at the Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA), raising tough questions about competence, focus and leadership under …

Uganda’s tourism sector may be posting impressive numbers on paper, but beneath the glossy “Explore Uganda” billboards lies a troubling trail of gaps, missed targets and weak oversight, according to the December 2025 Auditor General’s report on the marketing and branding of tourism activities by the Ministry of Tourism Wildlife and Antiquities and the Uganda Tourism Board. The audit returned …