Uganda: Members of Parliament (MPs) shocked over 10,000 unreconciled cars in expressway toll records

Members of Parliament were stunned after an internal audit report revealed that 10,446 vehicles could not be reconciled in toll records for the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway. The report showed that 586 vehicles could not be accounted for in November 2024, resulting in an estimated revenue shortfall of about Shs407 million, 2,860 vehicles were missing from toll records in December 2025, and over 7,000 in May 2026 translating into suspected revenue losses exceeding Shs1 billion. With the revelation, legislators on the Committee of Physical Infrastructure have tasked the Ministry of Works and Transport to explain discrepancies in the expressway toll revenue collections, unaccounted-for vehicles and the management of billions of shillings invested in Uganda's first toll road project. The committee, chaired by Hon. Mwine Mpaka, on Thursday, 06 August 2026, questioned officials from the ministry led by the minister, Hon. Minister Fred Byamukama, together with representatives of expressway operator EGIS and contractor Pinnacle, as lawmakers examined findings contained in the Auditor General's Report for the Financial Year 2024/25. The revelation questions the integrity, reliability and secur