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.
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.
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