On December 9, 1998, President Yoweri Museveni opened the first ever World Bank-organised Consultative Group Meeting for Uganda donors’ Conference at the International Conference Center in Kampala. The week-long meeting was attended by representatives from at least 20 countries and funding agencies. While opening the meeting, President Museveni said that corruption had persisted not because his government lacked the political will to fight it but because it was being let down by the Judiciary. 

He added that he was worried about the performance of the Commercial Court and that he was considering hiring judges from abroad to hasten resolution of cases. “While it takes so long to train judges, our Movement needs to fight the problem of pseudo-nationalism and borrow professional cadres of the right calibre from abroad. We should borrow people from abroad as our own gain knowledge.” Museveni said.