Beti Kamya’s Contract as IGG Nears ExpiryAmidst Growing Doubts if a Disastified M7Will Renew & Give Her Another Four Years

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By Otim NapeIn September this year, Beti Kamya will make four years as the Inspector General of Government (IGG) having first assumed in 2021. She replaced Lady Justice Irene Mulyagonja whose stellar performance hasn’t yet been surmounted thus far.Appointed with her were two other lawyer ladies namely Annie Muhairwe and Patricia Okiria serving as 1st & 2nd deputy IGG respectively. As head of that powerful institution, Kamya earns a monthly salary of not less than Shs36m besides several other benefits. It’s a job Beti Kamya has enjoyed because it has enabled her to project power and influence.President Museveni made her IGG at a time many had written her off as a spent force, having failed to reclaim her Rubaga North MP Seat, which predicament diminished her suitability to remain Minister in the government whose head Gen Tibuhaburwa is renowned for despising politicians who fail to retain their MP Seats.The IGG tenure is 4 years and having effectively assumed office in September 2021, Beti Kamya’s contract renewal will be up for review between now and that day. This means that she has just months to exhaust her current term. The practice has been renewing the same for most of her predecessors namely Mulyagonja and Faith Mwodha of earlier on.Sources say that Gen Museveni hasn’t been exactly very enthused by the IG performance under the Beti Kamya tenure. That he has been getting repeated intelligence red flags including those portraying the Inspectorate as one government institution that continues to be infested and plagued by kawukumi elements, which the top leadership hasn’t demonstrated adequate enthusiasm to stamp out.Relentless claims reaching the President have been that a growing number of officials and individual investigators solicit or accept groceries in order to cover up stuff when assigned to investigate big corruption scandals.The President recently confided in some people and made it clear that he was appalled to realise that in the whole period of four years, the Inspectorate had expeditiously and decisively concluded very few high profile investigations including the one of KCCA regarding the Kiteezi saga. The President is wondering why many other even bigger scandals are never concluded expeditiously and in such an effective way guiding him to promptly intervene in an effective way.He was enthused with the Kiteezi investigation because it was done or completed on record time and with clear recommendations guiding the Executive on which interventions to make. It’s what the President relied on to purge top KCCA officials and proceeding to have them prosecuted.The veteran leader from Rwakitura is understood to have uniquely liked the Kiteezi report to the extent that he wonders why similar precision and effectiveness was never deployed or manifested in all the other impropriety-related investigations he personally has been referring to the Inspectorate.The big man sometimes gets appalled over the possibility that in many cases, matters he refers for inquiry end up not being investigated properly because individual investigating officers get compromised or captured along the way to end up writing white-wash reports, full of vague recommendations that are hard to implement without attracting costly litigation against the government. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).