By our Writer
Kotido
Government has started investigating a major stalemate in Karamoja sub region schools and health facilities projects with indicators pointing to corruption and delayed fund releases.
Additional flaws include contractor abandonment, bureaucratic hurdles, and supervision challenges among others.
According to the on going investigations, there is a racket of senior government officials, security personnel and beneficiary contractors who allegedly conived to inflate projects budgets causing a fundamental disagreements amongst them selves leading to a technical stalemate.
This comes at a time when government is grappling with the Karamoja irons sheets and goat scandal which caused a 39 billions loss with multiple high ranking officials , ministers inclusive facing court cases.
A security source told this Media that mafias have disrupted the schools and health projects by forcebly demanding kick backs, intimidating and highjacking project cordinators and stealing billions.
Recently Endo construction company limited one of the cordinating company was attacked and all documents, files and computers robbed in a way which security suspect was engineered by the mafias being targeted.
These investigations which may soon lead to major arrrests like it happened with the iron sheets scandal are seeking to dig to the bottom of the matter.
Its alleged that alot of money has been stolen by inflating construction budgets, giving kickbacks or direct payments even before serious work can be done.
” We want to have some key people introgated to find some missing links. ” said a source.
Meanwhike the World Bank has committed USD 200 million (about UGX 710 billion) to Uganda through the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development to support the implementation of the Public Investment Management System (PIMS), a major reform aimed at improving value for money and curbing corruption in public procurement.
The funding will be disbursed under a results-based framework upon Uganda’s achievement of agreed Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLIs) and Intermediate Results Indicators (IRIs), according to Ramathan Ggoobi, the Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury.
“This new programme is about ensuring that public investments deliver tangible outcomes,” Ggoobi said, noting that resources will now be earned through improved systems and institutional performance rather than expenditure alone.
Initially a security source sald that the major stalemate has threatened the Karamoja sub region projects
despite significant government and donor investment mainly fall withbin the Karamoja Infrastructure Development Project (KIDP II) for Health and Educational projects.
Sources say some projects in the areas of Education and Health haven’t started at all while other which commenced have been affected by late financial releases, bureaucracy supervision or lack of commitment by contractors.
The development come to find another Karamoja iron sheet scandal still under investigations.
While Finance Minister Amos Lugoloobi was discharged in November 2025 after the DPP withdrew charges, the trial of former Karamoja Affairs Minister Mary Goretti Kitutu is also stalled due to torture claims while Nandutu”s case is underway.