at non-competitive prices contrary to the spirit of the PPDA and Regulations governing Public Procurements;  On 25th April, 2010, the Applicant instructed his Lawyers to gather all the information pertaining to all procurements made by the National Medical Stores from QCIL. Thereafter, and upon receipt of the information required, the Applicant analysed price information in the procurement and discovered irregularities in the implementation of the MoU between the Government and QCIL Ltd. He then disclosed the information to the Inspectorate of Government in accordance with the provisions of the Whistle-blowers Protection Act, No.6 of 2010. Later on, the Inspectorate acknowledged the Applicant’s disclosure and pledged that it would investigate and take appropriate action. The disclosure touched on acts of corruption, abuse of office, misappropriation, illicit enrichment, plunder and wastage of government resources by the Government of Uganda and/or its officials, servants and agents in complicity with QCIL;  The investigation by the IGG led to the conclusion of a loss by the Government of Uganda of USD17,826,038.94 in four transactions carried out between December, 2009 and October, 2010 due to inflated prices and thus the IGG made recommendations on the appropriate action to be taken by the Government in redress of the malpractices and illicit transactions contained in the IGG’s Report;  Following the report issued on 20th December, 2011 and in accordance with Section 1 of the Whistle-blowers Protection Reference No. 5 of 2013 Page 5