{"id":2699,"date":"2024-01-10T15:10:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgdmedia.live\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2024-01-10T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:10:45","slug":"auditor-generals-report-shows-billions-of-shillings-paid-to-ghost-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgdmediaug.live\/?p=2699","title":{"rendered":"Auditor General&#8217;s Report Shows Billions of Shillings Paid To Ghost Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Timothy Lukanga<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Auditor General has also revealed that Uganda\u2019s total public debt as at 30th June 2023 stood at Shs96.168Trn, comprising of domestic debt stock of Shs43.696Trn and external debt stock of Shs52.472Trn, with the report noting that Uganda\u2019s debt in five years has increased by 107%.<br>The Auditor General has revealed that Ugandan taxpayers spent Shs53Bn in payment of salaries of 10,192 \u2018ghost workers\u2019 who had been Gov\u2019t payroll, but during the verification exercise in February 2023, these were found to have died, retired or absconded from duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/mgdmedia.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cc61b383-bc29-4828-b351-8d8a71bf2f5c-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mgdmediaug.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cc61b383-bc29-4828-b351-8d8a71bf2f5c-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mgdmediaug.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cc61b383-bc29-4828-b351-8d8a71bf2f5c-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mgdmediaug.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cc61b383-bc29-4828-b351-8d8a71bf2f5c-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mgdmediaug.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cc61b383-bc29-4828-b351-8d8a71bf2f5c-860x484.jpeg 860w, https:\/\/mgdmediaug.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cc61b383-bc29-4828-b351-8d8a71bf2f5c.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Office of the Auditor General undertook special audit of the salary payroll across government, where he validated all employees in 367 entities comprising of 162 MDAs, 179 Local Governments &amp; 29 other Government organisations in February 2023.<br>The Auditor General has revealed that 5 public Universities in Uganda are teaching a total of 222 expired courses and these include; Makerere University- 120, Kyambogo University &#8211; 63, Mbarara University of Science and Technology &#8211; 21, Makerere University Business School &#8211; 15 and Gulu University &#8211; 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Analysis of programmes from 5 Universities revealed that out of the 629 programmes, only 332 were accredited, 138 had been sent to NCHE for accreditation, while 222 were not accredited,\u201d read in part the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Timothy Lukanga The Auditor General has also revealed that Uganda\u2019s total public debt as at 30th June 2023 stood at Shs96.168Trn, comprising of domestic debt stock of Shs43.696Trn and external debt stock of Shs52.472Trn, with the report noting that Uganda\u2019s debt in five years has increased by 107%.The Auditor General has revealed that Ugandan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v16.5 (Yoast SEO v19.6.1) - 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