Aggrey Awori rubbished allegations of controversy in the appointments to the National IT Authority board of directors.
He was responding to MP Ishaa Otoo’s allegations in an earlier press conference, where he (Otoo) also said there was corruption at the ICT ministry.
“Otoo cannot allege that the Ministry of ICT is corrupt without providing evidence. The Auditor General is carrying out a forensic audit on the national backbone project and the report will be provided,” he said.
The project includes the establishment of the E-Government infrastructure and the National Data Transmission Backbone infrastructure.
It involves laying over 2,000km of optic fibre cables to connect different parts of the country with high speed data links.
The first phase involved laying 128km of fibre optic cables linking Kampala to Entebbe, Jinja and Bombo.
However, the project was hit by problems including theft of equipment, cutting and poorly laying sections of the cable.
Awori said two firms; Architec Consult and Tech Consult, had been contracted to supervise the repair work.
On the appointment of board members, Awori said: “There are no controversies. All positions were advertised. It should be noted that the procedures for appointment stipulated in the IT Authority Act were followed, including approval by the Cabinet.”
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Davis Weddi and David Mugabe
Quelle/Source: The New Vision, 18.10.2009
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