Auditor General, we need a value for money audit for Lubowa hospital

The late Paul Job Kafeero, in his timeless classic Olulimi Lwange, asked: Tuvugga livaansi oba tugenda maaso? (are we retreating or progressing?). Seven years on, approximately Shs723.75 billion and a closed gate have left Ugandans asking it of Lubowa.

That closed gate continues to block all efforts to demand for accountability. On September 16, Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Joel Senyonyi and his monitoring team were denied access to the site, as were then Health Minister Ruth Acheng and the MPs on Parliament’s National Economy Committee members in August 2019.

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