Comptel Integrators Africa Ltd, a company that was contracted by the NSSF to run a data integrity system (IMIS) in 2007 at a cost of over Shs11 billion, has filed its suit against the AG before High Court in Kampala.
The company wants court to throw out recommendations of the AG, arguing they were based on hearsay as none of its officials were interviewed by the auditors. In a report sent to Parliament last month, the Auditor General, Mr John Muwanga, said the tender had flouted procurement rules.
The Daily Monitor: Tuesday, 9th February 2010
Darkness in the city after Shs16b goes to waste
Officials in the Works ministry reportedly grabbed a Shs3.4 billion street lighting Chogm deal from Kampala City Council (KCC) and later inflated the bill by Shs15.6 billion, MPs heard on Monday.
To get their way, the works officials portrayed KCC as an incompetent and unreliable entity unfit to do the job — a claim Eng. Waiswa Naluwairo, the KCC principal electrical engineer, rejected on grounds that the city authority was proficient to handle the job at only Shs3.4 billion.
But the Works PS, Mr Charles Muganzi, who came under pressure before PAC yesterday, denied the allegations. “We don’t grab mandates. The estimates from KCC were not exhaustive; they didn’t cover all areas of the inner zone of Kampala and were far below the Chogm requirements,” Mr Muganzi said.
Asked how the works ministry got involved in KCC mandate, Mr Muganzi told the inquiry that they were helping KCC to prepare a bid document for the contractors, adding that to prepared a bid document needed a number of people.
The Daly Monitor: Tuesday, 9th February 2010
Mityana district officials defy IGG
MPS on the legal and parliamentary affairs committee have expressed dissatisfaction over the decision by Mubende district administrators to retire officials implicated in the diversion of universal primary education (UPE) funds, contrary to the advice of the Inspector general of Government (IGG).
The MPs learnt that instead of dismissing the officers and recovering the money as the IGG had recommended, the district authorities preferred to retire the officers with full benefits. The MPs raised their concerns last week while meeting a team from Mubende district, led by the chief administrative officer, Nicholas Ocakara.
The committee, chaired by Stephen Tashobya (NRM), is studying the IGG reports from 1999 to 2006. Investigations by the IGG revealed that in 2001, the district education office centralized the setting and printing of primary school examinations under the management of a district academic board, formed for this purpose.