Embattled Principal Road Safety Officer Ronald Amanyire has escalated his standoff with government, accusing the Ministry of Finance of being a “hub for corruption planning” in a detailed statement shared on his X account.
Amanyire, who is currently under interdiction from the Ministry of Works and Transport over alleged misconduct and unauthorised communication, claimed that some of the country’s major infrastructure funding decisions are deliberately structured to enable financial abuse and lack of accountability.
In his post, he cited the proposed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridor project, alleging that Works and Transport initially requested about UGX 50 billion for compensation of Project Affected Persons to secure the right-of-way.
However, he claimed that instead of receiving adequate funding, the Ministry of Finance approved the project but released only UGX 200 million.
According to Amanyire, the justification given was that more substantial funding would be provided in the following financial year since the project had already passed through internal approvals.
He further alleged that for about five years, the same UGX 200 million was consistently released annually, a figure he described as grossly inadequate for meaningful implementation of the project.
He claimed that the project was eventually cancelled without any clear accounting for the funds that had been disbursed over the period.
“To date, no one has accounted for the cumulative funds released over those years, despite the project never progressing,” he stated in his post.
Amanyire went on to make a separate allegation, claiming that the Ministry of Finance later allocated approximately UGX 30 billion to a project that, according to him, had not been approved by the Sector Working Group under the Works and Transport ministry, nor cleared by the ministry’s Development Committee.
He argued that this pattern—underfunding approved projects, releasing small annual allocations, and later cancelling them without clear audit trails—reflects what he described as “a classic early stage of planned procurement-linked corruption.”
The Ministry of Finance has not issued a public response to the specific allegations.
Amanyire’s remarks come at a time when he is facing disciplinary proceedings following accusations by the Ministry of Works and Transport that he engaged in unauthorised disclosure of official information and public criticism of government programmes.