The Head of the Anti-Corruption Unit at State House, Brig. Gen. Henry Isoke, has disclosed that over 482 people have been arrested by the unit and charged in courts of law for misappropriating Parish Development Model (PDM) funds and other government programmes.
Out of that number, 261 are civil servants who have already appeared in court and been interdicted, and over 200 civilians have also been charged, with 79 convicted.
Gen. Isoke added that this year alone, 36 suspects have appeared in court, of whom 20 are government officials.
The Head of the ACU at State House was on Friday giving an overview report to members of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Parliamentary Caucus attending a 10-day retreat at the National Leadership Institute (NALI) in Kyankwanzi, on their investigations about the mismanagement of the Parish Development Model (PDM) funds in Acholi sub-region.
State House said the misappropriation of PDM funds was recently unearthed by President Museveni during his ‘Investment and Wealth Creation’ tour in the area on February 24, 2023.
This report comes against the backdrop of complaints received by the President from locals he met at Kaunda Grounds in Gulu City on the mismanagement of the PDM programme in Acholi sub-region.
Following the complaints, President Museveni directed Brig. Gen. Isoke to investigate all the allegations and bring all officials found to be culpable to book.
Brig. Gen. Isoke and his team swiftly swung into action and discovered that there was a lot of extortion from the public by government officials mandated to handle the PDM programme.
