With 120 cases on his file, the acting Inspector General of Government, Mr Raphale Baku, has been advised to hand over the cases to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to proceed with them.

Attorney General Peter Nyombi yesterday told Daily Monitor that he has advised Mr Baku to seek audience with DPP. “I have advised him to let DPP prosecute the remaining cases. The case of the ministers is done and this is what was based on for that interpretation by the Constitutional Court,” Mr Nyombi said.

The Constitutional Court last week placed a freeze on the IGG’s powers after three ministers charged in 2011 in connection with the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, challenged the powers of the acting IGG to prosecute them. The court citined lack of a substantive IGG and two deputies.

‘Game warden’

Asked what the current predicament meant for his office and the current cases in court, Mr Baku said he was equally speechless. “We shall address that matter but for now I can’t say much. We are going to address a press conference, perhaps tomorrow,” Mr Baku said.

The coordinator Anti-Corruption Coalition of Uganda, Ms Cissy Kagaba, said two years down the road without constituting the office of the Inspectorate of Government defeats the policy of zero tolerance to corruption.

Ms Kagaba faulted government in delaying to constitute the office, saying it is government’s favour not to expose the rot in government. President Museveni told European Union envoys two weeks ago that he delayed appointing a substantive IGG because he did not want to pick a ‘game warden who is a poacher.’ He said he had to take his time because the sample size of people with integrity in Uganda is limited.