Draft:List of corruption scandals in Uganda
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This is a list of notable corruption scandals in Uganda.
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Notable scandals[edit]
| Scandal | Date | People
Involved |
Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gavi funds[1][2][3][4][5] | 2005 | High ranking officials in government diverted millions of dollars’ worth of funds from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization and from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in 2005.The Geneva based fund suspended five grants totaling over US $ 200 million after $45 million had been disbursed to Uganda over two years. The suspension was lifted in November 2005, after the government officials responsible had been replaced by the international accounting firm, Ernst & Young. | |
| OPM scandal[12] | 2012 | 12.7 million US dollars in donor funds earmarked for rebuilding northern Uganda, ravaged by a 20 year war, and Karamoja, Uganda's poorest region, were embezzled from the office of the Prime Minister(OPM). | |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Uganda: Misuse of funds revealed as global fund inquiry quizzes ministers - Uganda | ReliefWeb". reliefweb.int. 2006-03-24. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
- ^ "The Global Fund Welcomes Ugandan Corruption Inquiry Report". www.theglobalfund.org. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
- ^ Eaton, Lynn (1 October 2005). "Global Fund toughens stance against corruption". BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.). 331 (7519): 718. doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7519.718. PMC 1239969. PMID 16195280.
- ^ Kapiriri, Lydia (August 2006). "The Global Fund Secretariat's suspension of funding to Uganda: How could this have been avoided?". ResearchGate.
- ^ Kelly, Annie (2008-10-30). "Uganda loses HIV funding over fears of misuse". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
- ^ "Politicians implicated in Global Fund scam excluded from gov't". The New Humanitarian. 24 May 2006.
- ^ "Former Ugandan Health Minister Charged with Embezzlement". Voice of America. 2009-10-27. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
- ^ Cohen, Jon (2008-07-25). "Uganda Confronts Corruption, Slowly". Science. 321 (5888): 522–525. doi:10.1126/science.321.5888.522. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 18653879.
- ^ Altman, Lawrence K. (2005-08-25). "Health Grants to Uganda Halted Over Allegations". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
- ^ "Mukula claims giving Gavi Fund money to Janet Museveni". Monitor. 2021-01-23. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
- ^ Kaija (12 June 2012). "Uganda: Alice Kaboyo Confesses to Misappropriating GAVI Funds". The Independent.
- ^ Burnett, Maria (2013-10-21). ""Letting the Big Fish Swim"". Human Rights Watch.