Despite seeming to have softened his stance on the Ush10 billion ($2.6 million) that Ugandan legislators allocated themselves as part of the Covid-19 supplementary budget, President Yoweri Museveni is said to have ordered an audit of the expenditure.
In a letter dated April 28 to the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, President Museveni said he instructed the Auditor-General to go over how the funds were used. “I am requesting the Auditor General to audit this aspect, where the MPs became the ‘purchasing’ officers of the state and see whether their efforts were legal. I have asked him to conclude it in four weeks,” said the president.
