Uganda, Feb. 29 -- It is now almost official, the Lubbowa International Specialised Hospital in Wakiso District is a phantom project; a bottomless pit from which billions of taxpayers' money have been spirited away.

Pictures, taken at great risk by daring photographers, depict the construction site as something of a ghost ground. There appears to be largely a concrete slab of the foundation to show years after Parliament was more or less arm-twisted into appropriating hundreds of billions of shillings to a so-called Italian investor for what was supposed to be a medical facility catering to the rising scourge of non-communicable diseases like cancer.

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