Parliament Recommends Termination of Expressway Operator, Security Contracts

What the report says

Parliament’s Physical Infrastructure Committee has urged the Ministry of Works and Transport to end the contracts of EGIS Road Operators and Pinnacle Security over alleged contractual, legal and financial irregularities linked to the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway, according to Nile Post. The recommendation was presented in plenary by committee chairperson and Mbarara South MP Mwine Mpaka, with Speaker Jacob Oboth Oboth presiding.

The committee said the expressway’s tolling and operations arrangements should be terminated immediately under the cited contract clause, and it also called for investigations into former ministry Permanent Secretary Waiswa Bageya. Nile Post reported that MPs questioned an alleged extension of Pinnacle Security’s contract, valued at Shs36 billion, which the committee said lacked the approvals required from the Attorney General and other oversight offices.

The report also flagged possible problems in the toll collection system. It said the system could not reliably produce statements for some cash-paying vehicles, making past transactions difficult to audit, and cited an internal audit finding that 93 vehicles appeared on CCTV as having paid and passed a toll point but were missing from the records. The committee recommended investigations by the IGG, CID and DPP into officials involved in the tolling arrangement and related procurement processes.

The Kampala-Entebbe Expressway, financed through a mix of Chinese lending and government funding, is one of Uganda’s key transport links. More broadly, the committee’s findings raise questions about oversight of toll operations, contract management and public spending on major infrastructure projects.