Uganda, March 11 -- The Auditor General, Mr John Muwanga, has revised the number of ghost workers on Parliament payroll from 21 to two, in a space of less than two weeks.

In the two reports both dated September 13, 2023, but released on different dates, Mr Muwanga made changes in his findings of the Salary Payroll Special Audit Report for the Parliamentary Commission for the period ending June 30, 2023.

The AG, who had faulted the Commission for paying an annual Shs1.6b to 21 staff, where 19 of these are non-existent, later said in the new report that only two staff were illegally receiving Shs179m annually.

Parliament's Director for Corporate and Public Affairs, Mr Chris Obore, shared the two reports with this newspaper on March 6, a ...