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An audit of Uganda's US$106 million national fiber backbone and e-government infrastructure project, which was contracted to Huawei Technologies of China, has brought to the fore inadequate supervision by the relevant government ministry and pricing anomalies on the part of the contractor.

The first phase, costing $30 million, was investigated by the government's auditor general, John Muwanga, at the request of the parliamentary committee on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The resulting 29-page report raises serious questions about the way in which the contractor, Huawei, was selected to implement the project, including the laying of 2,100 kilometers of fiber-optic cable. The auditor general said that Huawei's proposal was not evaluated based on the set standards.

Read more: Audit faults Huawei, ministry on Ugandan Internet project

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The Inspectorate of Government has cleared the controversial sh200b Government internet project. The project, which consists of three phases, involves building a 2,100km fibre optic cable network.

Ultimately, it is meant to link Uganda to the submarine cable on the East African coast and provide faster and cheaper internet access.

The Inspector General of Government (IGG), Raphael Baku, gave the go-ahead in a letter to ethics minister Nsaba Buturo earlier this month.

Read more: Uganda: Inspector General of Government clears controversial internet project

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The House committee on Information, Communication and Technology says it will authorise implementation of the $60 million (Shs114b) project only after officials offer proper accountability for the national fibre-optic backbone phase I expenditures.

A government plan to wire all district local governments on a virtual platform to popularise e-governance and minimise burgeoning administrative spending has been blocked by Parliament, Daily Monitor can reveal.

Read more: Uganda: MPs block e-governance project over shoddiness

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The Auditor General has uncovered serious anomalies regarding work on Phase I of the $106 million (Shs201b) national backbone infrastructure project to enhance the country’s Internet capacity. The report of the forensic audit, which this newspaper has seen, also raises serious questions about the project’s value-for-money, particularly the $2.2 million (Shs4.1b) reportedly used to repair broken installations.

Read more: Uganda: Government Internet plan runs into trouble

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The Ministry of Information Communication Technology recently embarked on Phase Two of the $106m (sh212b) on the nation backbone infrastructure IT project. Government’s noble intention is to extend 2,130km of fibre optic cable to the countryside, so as to provide high speed bandwidth for faster communication, data and information flow.

While this is being done, it is hoped that other ministries are planning and laying strategies to put this fiber optic cable to the best use to improve service delivery to the common man. Only then will this truly translate into “bridging the digital divide”.

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