Uganda: Ggoobi Calls for Reforms in Internal Auditing to Safeguard Public Funds

Uganda: Ggoobi Calls for Reforms in Internal Auditing to Safeguard Public Funds

The Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury (PSST) at the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Ramathan Ggoobi, has urged heads of Internal Audit at District Local Governments, Cities, and Municipal Councils to transform audit reports into instruments of change rather than archives of failure.

Ggoobi Pushes Internal Audit Reforms to Strengthen Public Spending Governance

KAMPALA, Uganda — The Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury of the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Uganda), Ramathan Ggoobi, has called for urgent reforms in Uganda’s internal audit system, urging auditors to transform reports from “archives of failure” into tools of institutional change. Speaking during a national meeting of internal auditors, Ggoobi challenged heads of internal audit units in district local …

PSST Dr Ggoobi Warns: Weak Internal Audits Undermine Uganda’s Ten-Fold Growth Agenda

The Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury (PSST), Dr. Ramathan Ggoobi, has challenged Heads of Internal Audit at district local governments, cities and municipal councils to turn audit reports into instruments of reform rather than archives of failure. Dr. Ggoobi noted that more than a third of public expenditure is implemented at local government level, warning that weaknesses in internal audit at that level directly undermine servi…