SLEEPING SICKNESS FIGHT IN DISARRAY! Inside Missing Assets, Unclaimed Millions & Shambolic Handover at MAAIF's COCTU
The closure of the Coordinating Office for Control of Trypanosomiasis in Uganda (COCTU) has been marred by administrative and financial irregularities. An audit revealed missing assets and poor oversight during the agency's transition into the Ministry of Agriculture.
Why it matters
It demonstrates the risks of institutional dissolution and the importance of rigorous asset management during government restructuring.
The government’s once-celebrated war against tsetse flies and sleeping sickness may have succeeded in wiping out Human African Trypanosomiasis in Uganda by 2020, but the closure of the agency that spearheaded the fight has left behind a catalogue of administrative, financial and asset management failures that have now been laid bare by the Auditor General.
The latest Auditor General’s report on the Coordinating Office for Control of Trypanosomiasis in Uganda (COCTU) for the financial year ended 30th September 2024 exposes glaring weaknesses in the management of public resources during the transition of the institution into the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF).
Although the audit opinion remained unqualified, the report paints a troubling picture of poor accountability, incomplete asset transfers, outstanding receivables, undocumented government property and a transition process that appears to have been handled without sufficient attention to detail.
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