{"id":9292,"date":"2021-04-29T16:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T16:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=9292"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:42:06","slug":"state-house-probes-sale-of-govt-drugs-to-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/state-house-probes-sale-of-govt-drugs-to-tanzania","title":{"rendered":"State House probes sale of govt drugs to Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The State House is investigating a case in which Ibanda District assistant inventory manager Isaac Aijuka sold government drugs to Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>State House health monitoring unit assistant director, Dr Brian Arinaitwe, said the National Medical Stores (NMS) was making the last supply from the district store to the health centres, when it found out 19 boxes of antimalarial drugs were missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is corruption in the medicine supply of Ibanda District. It is very painful that the government has tried to do everything but unscrupulous people have been trying hard to tarnish the image of government. Last Tuesday we arrested Mr Aijuka for stealing 19 boxes of antimalarial,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Arinaitwe said Mr Aijuka stole boxes of Coartem worth Shs50m and sold them at Shs10m. The accused has confessed to the crime.He added that they would find the whole racket of people stealing and selling government drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe he has been doing it for long as we learnt from a meeting we had at the district. We are going to do a more comprehensive audit that will span two years backwards so that we can understand the extent of what the government has lost,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Arinaitwe said the suspect would be charged with embezzlement in the Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala.Ibanda District chairperson Melichiadis Kazwengye said the district had been receiving reports about the sale of government drugs.\u201cWhenever we are at the drug store, we get comments from the locals but the suspect (Isaac) has been denying but now he has been arrested,\u201d Mr Kazwengye said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cHow does someone who gets Shs400,000 government salary a month afford a car of Shs340m and also change cars like shirts? What magic does he use that others do not have? This is a clear indicator that one is corrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chief administrative officer, Mr Kweyamba Ruhemba, said fighting corruption should be a concerted effort by all stakeholders.He also asked officials from the State House to arrest whoever aided in the sale of government drugs.Mr Ruhemba said: \u201cOn several occasions people complain of lack of drugs at our 44 health units in the district and we think that the problem is with the NMS yet someone at the district is busy making it a cash cow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>editorial@ug.nationmedia.com<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. The State House is investigating a case in which Ibanda District assistant inventory manager Isaac Aijuka sold government drugs to Tanzania. State House health monitoring unit assistant director, Dr Brian Arinaitwe, said the National Medical Stores (NMS) was making the last supply from the district store to the health centres, when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-9292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State House probes sale of govt drugs to Tanzania - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The State House is investigating a case in which Ibanda District assistant inventory manager Isaac Aijuka sold governmen ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/state-house-probes-sale-of-govt-drugs-to-tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State House probes sale of govt drugs to Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The State House is investigating a case in which Ibanda District assistant inventory manager Isaac Aijuka sold governmen ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/state-house-probes-sale-of-govt-drugs-to-tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-29T16:28:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/04\/img-608ad3a0965b2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/state-house-probes-sale-of-govt-drugs-to-tanzania#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/state-house-probes-sale-of-govt-drugs-to-tanzania\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"State House probes sale of govt drugs to Tanzania\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-29T16:28:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/state-house-probes-sale-of-govt-drugs-to-tanzania\"},\"wordCount\":398,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/state-house-probes-sale-of-govt-drugs-to-tanzania#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/04\/img-608ad3a0965b2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/state-house-probes-sale-of-govt-drugs-to-tanzania#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/state-house-probes-sale-of-govt-drugs-to-tanzania\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/state-house-probes-sale-of-govt-drugs-to-tanzania\",\"name\":\"State House probes sale of govt drugs to Tanzania - 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