The Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees Hilary Onek says government and Police are committed to investigations into the abuse of funds for refugees.
Addressing journalists at the Uganda Media Center this morning, the Minister vowed that all those involved in the misuse of refugee funds will face the law.
The Office of the Prime Minister was recently hit by a scandal of abuse of funds for refugees, and the UN and other major donors have asked the government to take action against the culprits.
Minister Onek said government has a zero tolerance policy towards corruption and thus the reason for the ongoing investigations.
Uganda is home to more than one million refugees mainly from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due to the conflicts there, in addition to those from Rwanda, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Early this month, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR and the European Union (EU) called for an investigation into alleged falsification of refugee numbers, misuse of funds meant for the refugees by officials at OPM and suspected trafficking of some female refugees.
