They said it...

Nov 05, 2002

"All of you belong to Luzira, if I had anything to do with it. You want to eat money from Karim; you want to eat the 10% for informers out of the same money you did not want to recover. I would throw all of you into Luzira,"

"All of you belong to Luzira, if I had anything to do with it. You want to eat money from Karim; you want to eat the 10% for informers out of the same money you did not want to recover. I would throw all of you into Luzira,"
Justice Julia Ssebutinde, blasting Uganda Revenue Authority officials for failure to recover sh2.5b in taxes from business tycoon Karim Hirji.

"I do not want to be involved in those funny deals I have been hearing. Mine was a clean deal. As a lawyer, I ensur-ed that the property was free from controversy before I paid for it," Amanya Mushega, the secretary general of the East African Community, commenting about the sh210m house he purchased from Karim Hirji that originally belonged to the former tax agency boss, Elly Rwakakoko.

"I have not even paid school fees for my daughters in the USA, yet I am being accu-sed of looting Congo, "
Lt. Gen Salim (left) Saleh, defending himself against allegations by the UN experts that he is among top army officers plundering DRC resources.

"I can safely describe the accused as a murderer whose act cannot be taken lightly. He must be kept away from society to teach him a lesson and keep him out of circulation in case he was tempted to repeat what he did," Justice Vincent Kagaba of the High Court, sentencing Gilodin Musisi to life imprisonment for defiling a three-and-half-year old girl.

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