Kampala — MUKONO district has rejected two public accounts committee (PAC) reports.

One of the reports was a probe report that had implicated five district education officials in the mismanagement of Universal Primary Education (UPE) funds, on which the district council based to suspend the officials.

The other was written after the officials had been suspended.

The probe report showed that there were ghost teachers, non-remittance of UPE funds, ghost schools, stolen bursary cheques, shoddy construction work and ghost pupils, yet the one written after showed none of this.

The district chairperson, Francis Lukooya Mukoome, told a council meeting in Mukono community centre recently that the two reports contradicted each other.

"The PAC committee did not study the probe committee report and, therefore, it underlooked important findings of the district council," he said.

The implicated officers were Prosper Lwamasaka, Margaret Nakitto, Godfrey Akena Ssemambya Ntege and Edwin Musoke, the former district education officer.