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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.

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.

The suspension of work on Uganda's national fiber backbone and e-government infrastructure, estimated to cost a total of US$106 million, is the latest case in a string of eastern and southern African telecom and ICT projects that have been hit by charges of corruption.

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”.

In his state-of-nation address to Parliament on June 4, President Yoweri Museveni declared the fight against corruption as the only war remaining after the defeat of the Lord’s Resistance Army.

The President reasoned that because the war in Northern Uganda consumed most of his time for the last 23 years, civil servants had a field day pillaging public funds.

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