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    Examining Procurement Fraud in Ministry of Education and Sports (Moes).
    (Makerere University Business School, 2022-04-22) Nyamwenge Faith
    The study examined procurement fraud in public projects at the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES). The study was initiated as a result of various reports and publications on the consistent circumstances of procurement fraud in the pre-contracting, contracting and post contracting stages of various procurements in MoES. The objectives that guided the study included; to establish the factors influencing procurement fraud; identify the stages in the procurement process prone to procurement fraud; examine the challenges in eliminating procurement fraud at MoES and, examine strategies in place to prevent procurement fraud. A cross-sectional survey design was adopted in which 82 respondents were selected using both simple random and purposive sampling. A self-administered questionnaire and an interview guide were used to collect data from the respondents and the data was analysed using SPSS (V24) and Atlas-it software. The findings revealed that among the factors affecting procurement fraud were moral superiority, inadequate internal controls, low awareness of regulatory requirements, staff being motivated by financial need/gain, greed, desire for prestige/recognition and history of programmed abuse. The proposed strategies to prevent procurement fraud include; increasing awareness of the clear procurement policies already in existence; conducting regular procurement audits; whistle-blowing and fraud reporting, witnessing of protection of whistle-blowers; fraud information sharing and intelligence, rotation of procurement officers, adoption of e-procurement to reduce interface with suppliers, enforcing blacklisting of supplier organizations involved in fraud: disciplining or termination of staff convicted of fraud practices and limiting their access security codes to the procurement system and publicization of staff and suppliers involved in procurement fraud.