The Inspector General of Government, Beti Kamya, has said her office cannot do much to fight corruption because the vice is usually performed in secrecy.
Addressing the faithful during St Mary’s Day celebrations at St Stephen’s Church of Uganda in Kabowa, Kamya said she had received so money complaints of corruption but without concrete evidence.
“Corruption is killing the nation. In the office I sit in I am the one who gets these corruption complaints but the most disturbing thing is that there is no evidence, it is always done under the table. I have the instruments of power to put these people down but it’s done between two people, in closed doors in the dark. So, my instruments of power have become useless,” she lamented.
The revelation led to a backlash on social media with people calling upon her to resign and leave office.
“Why are then wasting taxpayer’s money occupying the office. Resign,” one of the people wrote on X.
Some like activist Anthony Natif offered to provide Kamya evidence about misuse of public resources in Parliament. But he wondered whether Kamya can investigate a body that approves her annual budget.
Under the law, the IG has investigative and prosecutorial powers.
It is not the first time Kamya has lamented about the challenges of fighting corruption.
