By Athnus Faith
On September 13th 2017, Robina Nabbanja, Parliamentary Commissioner of Parliament tabled a motion on the floor of the August House seeking approval to appoint an auditor to audit the Office of the Auditor General.
Nabbanja, whose motion was seconded by Arinaitwe Rwakajara (Workers MP) who also doubles as Parliamentary Commissioner cited Article 163(9) of the Constitution and Section 36 of the National Audit Act 2008 that gives Parliament mandate to appoint an Auditor to audit books of audit for the Auditor General.
The Commissioner’s pronouncement would bring an end to the over decade long questioning on why the Auditor General, whose Office reports directly to Parliament has not been audited for over a decade from 2005.
The Parliament Service Commission which is a procuring entity of Parliament invited bids through the International Open bidding method, for procurement of an auditor to audit the books of accounts of the auditor General, for a period running from 2005/2006 to 2016/2017.
Strong Vote of Confidence: Mbire Reappointed MTN Uganda ChairmanM/S Kisaka & Company a certified public accounts emerged the best evaluated bidder, to audit the account of the office of the Auditor General from 2005 to 2017.
However, there were objections.
Abdu Katuntu, (Bugweri County MP) stood up on point of procedure questioning why Oulanyah put up the motion to debate before Nabbanja could justify her motion.
“I thought in our Rules of Procedure, the mover of the motion has to speak to it. We need to know how they arrived at the decision, how many firms bid then we can put up a meaningful debate. But just to throw a motion at us to debate, what are we going to debate?
