Docs implicating ministers in oil saga forged-Kayihura

Dec 08, 2011

The Police chief has told the Parliament adhoc committee that documents used to link the Premier and two senior ministers in oil bribes were forged.

By Vision Reporter

The Inspector General of Police Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura has told the Parliament adhoc committee investigating the regularization of the oil and gas sector that documents used to link the Premier and two senior ministers in oil bribes were forged.

Testifying before the committee chaired by Mike Werikhe on Thursday, Kayihura said, “our (police) investigations show that the documents presented before the House in regards to bribery claims were forged.”

  Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, foreign affairs minister Sam Kuteesa and internal affairs minister Hillary Onek are accused of having received bribes from oil companies. The trio, however deny the claims.

Appearing before the committee last month, Kuteesa asked the committee to thoroughly investigate documents submitted to the House by MP Gerald Karuhanga submitting that they were fake.

 Karuhanga youth MP (western region) accused Kuteesa of receiving 17m euros through a company called East Africa development Ltd.

 “You should investigate the source of Karuhanga’s documents. He must be asked the source of his documents so as to end falsifications of the documents and misuse of parliamentary privilege,” he said.

He added that: “This committee must not only establish whether or not bribes were paid but it should go further to establish who forged these documents. Today it is me, but tomorrow we do not know who it will be”.

He noted that the documents were not only defamatory but false whose intention is to tarnish his name before Ugandans.

 

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