Covid-19: Four Ugandan officials nabbed for inflating relief food prices

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Covid-19: Four Ugandan officials nabbed for inflating relief food prices
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Four officials in the office of Uganda’s Prime Minister have been arrested over claims of irregular purchase of relief food the government is providing to vulnerable citizens. coronavirus

Johannesburg - Four officials in the office of Uganda’s Prime Minister have been arrested over claims of irregular purchase of relief food the government is providing to vulnerable citizens during the coronavirus lockdown period.

“Preliminary findings established that the accounting officers were inflating prices and rejecting lower prices from suppliers of maize flour, maize and beans,” Nakalema said in a statement.

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