By KT Reporter
The president Museveni says that auditor general’s reports don’t excite him anymore. In a meeting at state house last month, Museveni told his guests who included attorney general Kiwanuka Kiryowa, finance minister Matia Kasaijja, permanent secretary Ramathan Goobi, Moses Kaggwa, Martin Nsubuga of URBRA and politician Julius Jjunjura, that he isn’t excited about anyone getting cleared by external auditors from the auditor general’s offices.
Media reports show that the president was responding to the knifed URBRA managing director Martin Nsubuga who claimed to be corrupt-less and very clean with the handling of public funds because the auditor general had found him to be.
Nsubuga claimed that for all the years he was the top man at URBRA, everything was well and he was always given unqualified audit opinion in all audit reports going to parliament.
Museveni told him to shut up and made it clear to the people at the meeting that he had been getting clear intelligence reports for years showing that agencies of govt and ministries contribute money to pay off external auditors every financial year to write for them favorable reports which cover up the real scandals.
He told the meeting that he knows a lot and even has recordings of some individuals asking for money to ‘cater for the auditors.’ He made it clear that he has a lot of information and this is what happens every financial year. He told people at the meeting that he knows this extortion happens for almost all votes in the central government and local governments in the districts.
The president shocked his visitors when he stated that its only agencies that refuse to pay off the external auditors that end up with qualified opinions on the external audit reports.
Museveni told Nsubuga that he is more inclined to believe in internal audit reports which in URBRA’s case were showing serious financial mismanagement, than in external ones.
He told Nsubuga to keep those nice external audit reports in his library for his grand children to read in future and not waste his time bringing such deceit to his state house.
Media reports show that the president will be digging up the kawukumi among external auditors at auditor general’s place after securing another term for himself in 2026. And that heads will roll, with some people going to jail
It will be similar to what happened at the accountant general’s office under the finance ministry, or even worse.
Sources say that Museveni has been receiving a lot of information about the rot among the external auditors who collect hundreds of billions in kickbacks every financial year.
Media reports show that Museveni contacted the public service chairman Winfred Kabogoza and told her to investigate the mess at URBRA regardless of the cover up in external audit reports.
Kabogoza was told she must totally ignore the external audit reports, which the president distrusts, and instead make use of the rotten findings contained in internal audit reports.
Kabogoza is supposed to advise the president on what should be done to Martin Nsubuga as Kiwanuka Kiryowa advises on the fate of former board members many of whom are conc cadres of the NRM. Give us feedback on this story through our email: kamwokyatimes@gmail.com
