Government has committed herself to pay back all the money that was fraudulently stolen from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) meant for the Peace, recovery, and Development Plan. (PRDP).
The scandles in the in the OPM have led to the withdraw of funding by Uganda's major donors, Denmark, Ireland and Britain over accusations that Uganda failed to monitor the use of the funds and failure to put it to the intended use.The government says all the funds will be paid and deposited on the PRDP donor account. Uganda's prime minister Amama Mbabazi said the money would be sourced from elsewhere and promised to have all the culprits involved in the fraudulent transactions punished once they are convicted by law. He was addressing the media on actions that the government is taking to restore confidence among the donors. This was at his office in Kampala.
Mbabazi denied ever receiving donor funds on his private account. "It is ridiculous, a wild figment of someone's imagination to suggest that i took money and then called for the investigations", he said.
This was after the UK's Daily mail reported that he had received 10m pounds (42 billion Ugx), part of development aid on his private account. He said he had instructed his lawyers here and in the UK to study the issue and advise him on the next step to take.
Mbabazi has been involved in a number of scandles, the recent one being the CHOGM scandle in which he was exonerated by courts of law of any wrong doing. There was also the Temangalo scandle which involved him, businessman Amos Nzeyi and the National Social Security Fund (N.S.S.F), in which a small piece of land was allegedly purchased at awhooping shs.11 billion.
Critics say, it is high time Mbabazi considers resigning from public service because of his name always being involved in scandles.