LC bikes: Dealer faces arrest
Sep 23, 2011
PARLIAMENT has ordered the arrest of Patrick Bagarukayo, a beneficiary of sh4.7b bicycle money for Local Council leaders.
By JOYCE NAMUTEBI
and CATHERINE BEKUNDA
PARLIAMENT has ordered the arrest of Patrick Bagarukayo, a beneficiary of sh4.7b bicycle money for Local Council leaders.
Bagarukayo, who is accused of receiving about sh945m from the company contracted by the Government to supply the bicycles, yesterday failed to appear before MPs to explain his role in the transaction.
Instead, his lawyer Mathias Sekatawa who turned up, said his client had instructed him to tell the committee to reschedule the meeting to Monday.
He, however, failed to tell the committee why he had not turned up.
The committee had invited Barugakayo after Stanbic Bank’s head of legal services, Gertrude Wamala, said he (Barugakayo) had received about $240,000 on March 15, and another $100,000 the following day.
Betty Nambooze (Mukono) who moved the motion to compel Bagarukayo’s arrest said legislators should be in their constituencies interfacing with the electorate instead of wasting time on fraudsters.
Committee vice-chairperson Raphael Magyezi ordered the committee clerk to write to the criminal investigations department to issue an arrest order for Barugakayo.
“Following his failure to appear, I order that Bagarukayo be forced to appear before this committee. Police should look for him especially along the border in western Uganda,†Magyezi, ordered.
and CATHERINE BEKUNDA
PARLIAMENT has ordered the arrest of Patrick Bagarukayo, a beneficiary of sh4.7b bicycle money for Local Council leaders.
Bagarukayo, who is accused of receiving about sh945m from the company contracted by the Government to supply the bicycles, yesterday failed to appear before MPs to explain his role in the transaction.
Instead, his lawyer Mathias Sekatawa who turned up, said his client had instructed him to tell the committee to reschedule the meeting to Monday.
He, however, failed to tell the committee why he had not turned up.
The committee had invited Barugakayo after Stanbic Bank’s head of legal services, Gertrude Wamala, said he (Barugakayo) had received about $240,000 on March 15, and another $100,000 the following day.
Betty Nambooze (Mukono) who moved the motion to compel Bagarukayo’s arrest said legislators should be in their constituencies interfacing with the electorate instead of wasting time on fraudsters.
Committee vice-chairperson Raphael Magyezi ordered the committee clerk to write to the criminal investigations department to issue an arrest order for Barugakayo.
“Following his failure to appear, I order that Bagarukayo be forced to appear before this committee. Police should look for him especially along the border in western Uganda,†Magyezi, ordered.