Criticism over €4m Uganda funding

The Department of Foreign Affairs should have been able to uncover sooner the fraudulent use of €4m of Irish aid funding in Uganda.

Criticism over  €4m Uganda funding

The C&AG found department staff in the country should have been aware of concerns about funding provided through Ugandan government systems before the issue was formally reported by the country’s auditor general in October last year.

That report had referred to negative media publicity at least four months earlier and it was after media coverage of alleged mismanagement of funds by the office of the prime minister that the auditor general’s investigation was prompted.

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