By Angel Lubowa
MPIGI
Just days after the anti corruption agencies arrested and charged the Mpigi LC 5 Boss and other Officials on alleged corruption, the anti corruption agencies have called on the public in greater Mpigi to collaborate so that the vice can be tracked down.
The call was made by the Deputy Head of State House Anti Corruption Unit (SHACU) Mr. Israel Ochwo while appearing live on Buwama FM on Monday evening to raise awareness about the Unit’s ongoing anti-corruption interventions in Greater Mpigi.
Greater Mpigi comprises of Mpigi, Butambala, and Gomba districts.
He highlighted the Unit’s past interventions that have not only increased public trust in it but also shown the possibility of effectively tackling corruption.
He attributed the Unit’s success to collaboration and coordination with other anti-corruption agencies.
He also emphasised that corruption should be shunned by all and that further gains could be made if all citizens partnered with anti-corruption agencies to report the corrupt and demand that action is taken against those who engage in it.
This comes at a time when the LC 5 chairman of Mpigi ,Mr. Ssejjemba Martin and two members of the public service commission, Mr. Kirumira Fredrick the Chairperson and Ms Nakamoga Sarah, the Secretary are on remand in prison after being charged in court over demanding money by menaces from job applicants within the district.
It’s alleged that the District Service Commission has been selling jobs, with applicants being required to pay bribes ranging from UGX 50,000 and 15 million in order to be considered for employment.
Their arrest followed a directive from His Excellency Y.K Museveni, the President who, during his Parish Development Model (PDM) monitoring tour in the Greater Mpigi area on June 17, 2025, received complaints regarding widespread corruption in the Mpigi District recruitment process and ordered Brig Gen Henry Isoke, Head Of SHACU
to arrest district officials involved in the alleged selling of government jobs.
However during the talk show Mr. Ochwo lauded the media for actively engaging in the fight and amplifying public concerns over District Service Commissions allegedly soliciting bribes for appointments to government jobs that had resulted in HE the President’s directive to SHACU to intervene.
“We’ve launched investigations in Greater Mpigi—targeting the sale of govt jobs, misuse of the UGX 1B Road Fund, payroll fraud and financial mismanagement,” he stated.
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