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The process that kicks off on 1st March will compel over 35,000 public officers country to declare source of wealth as IGG moves to implement leadership code.
Byamugemeirire also asked members of the public to engage in corruption reporting exercise to inspectorate of Government so that culprits are reprimanded.
He has asked Ministry of Education to Integrate ethics and integrity in curriculum so that children learn proper ethics to wipe out corruption.
He was meeting religious leaders, civil society organisations and other stakeholders on implementation of the zero tolerance to corruption policy in Kampala.
He further asked religious leaders to use their pulpit to preach against corruption to change mind set in society.
Lead Ministries, Agencies and Departments have also been asked to form committees to monitor and track corruption tendencies in procurement transactions.
“We have realized that citizenry have information on corruption but they are not been engaged in corruption reporting exercise to Compel public officers from embezzlement,” Byamugemirire said.
Uganda has been ranked among highly corrupt country
Uganda is ranking as well as the local corruption surveys have shown persistent poor performance of the country’s anti corruption drives with the most Ugandans perceiving corruption as increasing.
In 2015 corruption perception index published by Transparency International ranked Uganda 139th out of the 167 countries scoring paltry 25 points.
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