JACOB OULANYAH BURIAL BUDGET: IGG to Investigate Late Speaker’s Huge Funeral Expenditure

Inspector General of Government (IGG) Beti Olive Namisango Kamya says her office will investigate the ‘obscene cash bonanza’ in late Speaker Jacob L’Okori Oulanya’s funeral expenses. 

On March 29, we reported that government will spend Shs2.5bn on Oulanyah’s burial. (Read Story Here).

When Ugandans complained that the money government was planning to spend on Oulanyah’s burial was too much, a minister in Museveni’s cabinet told them to stop complaining. (Read Story Here).

Government has since cut the figure to about Shs1.8bn, and consequently increased Parliament’s budget to include this figure. (Read Story Here).

Now, IGG Kamya has revealed that as a way of honoring Oulanyah as an anti-corruption crusader, her office will investigate the huge burial budget.

“The Spirit of the departed Jacob Oulanyah must be horrified by the obscene cash bonanza in his funeral expenses, he’d not allow it if he had a choice,” said Kamya.

“The Inspectorate of Government will honor him by taking interest in allegations of impropriety in his funeral expenses.” 

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Samuel Kamugisha

Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, translator, language instructor, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. A Makerere University graduate of Journalism and Communication with a decade-long experience in news reporting, writing and editing, Kamugisha is Editor at The Pearl Times. His other journalistic work was published by The Observer. When he is not doing journalism work -- which is rare -- Kamugisha will be reading or writing a short story or a poem, or caught up in the writer's block. His new children's book 'Friends of Plastics' has been published by Room to Read and Reading Association of Uganda and can be read here: https://literacycloud.org/stories/7887-friends-of-plastic/

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