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New Vision (Kampala) - October 26, 2005
Jude Etyang and Anne Mugisa
Kiyonga said the fund was designed as additional support to the government's budget on AIDS project and not to finance ministers' official duties.
"Political leaders must go and do supervision of Global Fund activities but the money must come from the government. This money was supposed to be additional funding to what the Government offered," he said.
Kiyonga was the eighth witness in the probe at the Uganda Manufacturers association conference hall.
Last week, the commission quizzed the Permanent Secretary in the health ministry, Muhammad Kezaala, on how minister Lt Gen. Jim Muhwezi and his two junior ministers were given sh36m as travel allowances to supervise Global Fund activities.
Kiyonga was the health minister in 2001 and was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Anan to chair a committee to set up the Global Fund.
He said the management system of the Global Fund was weak and could easily be abused.
He said right from the start, the Global Fund faced institutional rivalries with international bodies.
Earlier, the leader of PriceWaterhouseCoopers team which wrote the damning report, John Stanley Ward, said the audit firm discovered a discrepancy of about sh1.6b, from the sampling it did.
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