CID question Kabakumba over UBC equipment
Dec 12, 2011
Minister Kabakumba Masiko’s radio station in Masindi remains closed a week after police recovered a transmitter belonging to the public broadcaster UBC at the station.
By Joseph Baguma and Joyce Namutebi
Minister Kabakumba Masiko’s radio station in Masindi remains closed a week after police recovered a transmitter belonging to the public broadcaster UBC at the station.
King FM manager Harison Magezi confirmed that the station was still closed but added that new equipment will be purchased for it to resume normal service.
Meanwhile, Kabakumba who is the minister for the presidency was questioned by the Criminal Investigations Directorate on Sunday over how the transmitter ended up at her radio station.
She is accused of stealing a UBC transmitter and other broadcasting equipment. Information minister at the time the transmitter was acquired by her radio station King’s Broadcasting Serices, Kabakumba is under investigation by the Police. The minister denies any wrong-doing.
MPs have collected 146 signatures to censure Kabakumba but the minister over the weekend said she does not fear to be censured.
Meanwhile, MPs spearheading a petition for the censure of Kabakumba have said they are being intimidated and at the same time being blackmailed with ministerial positions.
The petitioners told reporters that their intimidators had launched “a gutter press strategy” in a bid to black mail, tarnish and derail them, but vowed not to accept “vandalism of the state.”
“They are intimidating us…but I am not scared at all. It is a very tough war but me as a warrior, I am going to fight up to the end,” Mariam Nalubega (Independent) said.
They also revealed that they were receiving calls from people claiming to have been sent by the President and luring them with promises of being elevated to Cabinet should they abandon their petition. They said other callers pretend to be the President himself.