Uganda: 'Letting the Big Fish Swim' - Failures to Prosecute High-Level Corruption in Uganda

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"Untouchables. Come rain, come shine, they're never going to court, not while there's somebody close to them in power. That's because of the politics involved." -- Prosecutor in the Anti-Corruption Court, May 21, 2013

"This court is tired of trying tilapias when crocodiles are left swimming." -- Justice John Bosco Katutsi, former head of the Anti-Corruption Court, during a ruling convicting an engineer during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting scandal, June 29, 2010

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