HEALTH PROJECT MESS! Report Unmasks Tax Blunder, Idle Equipment & Millions Lost in KCCA's CDC Project
An audit report has exposed significant financial and operational failures within a CDC-funded health project managed by the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA). Issues include massive tax gaps, unpaid consultancy arrears, and poor transition planning.
Why it matters
This highlights systemic governance and oversight failures in the management of international development aid and public funds.
A health project funded by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has come under heavy scrutiny after the Auditor General exposed a string of financial, contractual and operational failures that left taxpayers counting losses and critical project activities hanging in the balance.
The findings are contained in the Auditor General’s Closure Audit for the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Urban Health Project (KCCA-CDC) covering the six-month period ended 31st March 2024.
Although the project received an unqualified audit opinion, the Auditor General documented several serious weaknesses that point to poor planning, weak oversight and failures by those entrusted with implementing the project.
One of the biggest red flags concerns the handling of staff severance payments.
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