Uganda, May 12 -- The State Minister for Economic Monitoring, Ms Beatrice Akello Akori, has directed the State House Anti-Corruption unit to investigate several contractors who abandoned government construction projects Kigezi Sub-region amid accusations of shoddy work.

Ms Akori was on Tuesday monitoring government projects in Kigezi, where she also established shoddy work in the construction of Buramba Health Centre III, the staff quarters at Ryakarimira Town Council, the one stop border post at Katuna and the staff quarters at Butanda Secondary School, all in Kabale district.

She also discovered some stalled projects in Rubanda District such as the construction of the Kerere-Rwabumbe-Rugyendabari road (7.2kms) in Hamurwa Sub-county an...