MPs want Kinobe warned over grader
May 18, 2003
THE parliamentary committee on rules, privileges and discipline has recommended that Lt. James Kinobe, the chairman of the Movement parliamentary caucus, be warned for using the Luweero district grader to grade a road to his Kinafam hotel without district authority
By Vision Reporter
THE parliamentary committee on rules, privileges and discipline has recommended that Lt. James Kinobe, the chairman of the Movement parliamentary caucus, be warned for using the Luweero district grader to grade a road to his Kinafam hotel without district authority.
The recommendations were in a report by Ben Wacha, the chairperson of the rules committee. He presented it to Parliament on Friday.
The committee investigated allegations of corruption against four MPs reported by Ofwono Opondo, the Movement Director for Information.
The committee said Nandala Mafabi (Budadiri West) chairman of the parliament’s national economy committee and committee member Capt. Guma Gumisiriza(Ibanda North) acted irregularly while investigating the Mukwano Group of Companies.
Mafabi and Gumisiriza individually investigated Mukwano Group for importing palm oil products as raw materials.
Wacha said the two MPs should be given warning letters for acting irregularly.
The report exonerates Gumisiriza in another allegation against him for demanding a bribe of sh300m from Master Electronics to cover up for them a tax. It said there was no prove that Kinobe demanded for a sh4m bribe from the Luweero chief administrative officer Mpiira Bigairwe in the case of corruption against him.
Opondo alleged that last year while he was on a political mobilisation tour of Luweero distict, the Resident District Commissioner, Mugisha Muhwezi told him that Kinobe asked for a bribe from Bigairwe to settle queries made by Parliament’s local government Accounts Committee on Luwero district account.
THE parliamentary committee on rules, privileges and discipline has recommended that Lt. James Kinobe, the chairman of the Movement parliamentary caucus, be warned for using the Luweero district grader to grade a road to his Kinafam hotel without district authority.
The recommendations were in a report by Ben Wacha, the chairperson of the rules committee. He presented it to Parliament on Friday.
The committee investigated allegations of corruption against four MPs reported by Ofwono Opondo, the Movement Director for Information.
The committee said Nandala Mafabi (Budadiri West) chairman of the parliament’s national economy committee and committee member Capt. Guma Gumisiriza(Ibanda North) acted irregularly while investigating the Mukwano Group of Companies.
Mafabi and Gumisiriza individually investigated Mukwano Group for importing palm oil products as raw materials.
Wacha said the two MPs should be given warning letters for acting irregularly.
The report exonerates Gumisiriza in another allegation against him for demanding a bribe of sh300m from Master Electronics to cover up for them a tax. It said there was no prove that Kinobe demanded for a sh4m bribe from the Luweero chief administrative officer Mpiira Bigairwe in the case of corruption against him.
Opondo alleged that last year while he was on a political mobilisation tour of Luweero distict, the Resident District Commissioner, Mugisha Muhwezi told him that Kinobe asked for a bribe from Bigairwe to settle queries made by Parliament’s local government Accounts Committee on Luwero district account.