For over 14 months, hundreds of public servants in Wakiso district were receiving salaries many times higher than what they are entitled to under their grades in a grand fraud that was unearthed recently.

At least sh2.3b has been stolen in the scam orchestrated by the top district personnel officials. The scam bears all the characteristics of the scandal that hit the Office of the Prime Minister in 2012 in which billions of shillings were stolen.

So far, 183 teachers have admitted that they benefitted from the sh2.3b payroll fraud. According to the acting CAO, Iga Mukasa, the teachers who confessed to taking the money have expressed the intention of returning it.

Sources also say they cannot rule out the possibility that some councillors were involved in the fraud that has been referred to the Inspector General of Government for further investigations.