Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has tasked the Ministry Agriculture to explain circumstances under which Shs7.3 million was spent on the purchase of each goate yet the majority of the goats bought ended up dying within the first week after distribution, with auditors blaming the supplier of intentionally supplying sick & emaciated goats to government.
According to the Auditor General’s report 71 goats were imported at 528 million Uganda shillings.
Steven Kajura, Project Coordinator at the Ministry of Agriculture defended the cost spent on each goat saying the goats were bought from South Africa and were of a higher pedigree explaining,
“The goats were got from South Africa & Namibia, we bought high pedigree animals and that cost includes cost insurance and flight so it came to Shs7.3Mn. The exotic pedigree animals are usually very expensive, you are free to google and you will come to around the same range” said Kajura Steven!
The Public Accounts Commitee is scrutinizing the auditor General Report for 2022/23 financial year
