UMSC accounts dormant
Sep 03, 2006
ALL Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) bank accounts are dormant, a senior council official has revealed.
By Mariam Nalunkuuuma and Madina Tebajjukira
ALL Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) bank accounts are dormant, a senior council official has revealed.
The secretary for finance and planning, Haji Adnan Koire, told the committee investigating the sale of UMSC property in Kampala yesterday that Haks Express was paying sh11m in cash to council staff every month.
“We have had a perpetual attachment of our bank accounts due to a number of old cases by staff in court. Council has always lost money through such cases, so it was resolved that any payment should be made in cash. Even the sh11m we are getting from Haks has been coming in cash for the last two months.â€
Koire named the six accounts as the general operations, Zakat marali, annual subscription, Hijja and Umrah, the mosque construction fund and the national mosque reconstruction accounts.
He explained that UMSC closed the mosque construction fund and the national mosque reconstruction accounts after donors for the old Kampala mosque construction decided to handle all the funds.
Koire also told the committee that UMSC did not have an internal auditor and was last audited by an external company in 2000.
He said the principle signatories to the accounts were the Secretary General, Edris Kasenene and himself.
Mufti Shaban Mubajje was also a signatory to most of the accounts until 2004, when the executive committee queried him about it.
Koire said the top managers had locked him out of the leasing of the plots. He said Kasenene had taken all his powers of managing the council funds. He said he learnt about the leasing of the plots after the agreements were signed.
ALL Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) bank accounts are dormant, a senior council official has revealed.
The secretary for finance and planning, Haji Adnan Koire, told the committee investigating the sale of UMSC property in Kampala yesterday that Haks Express was paying sh11m in cash to council staff every month.
“We have had a perpetual attachment of our bank accounts due to a number of old cases by staff in court. Council has always lost money through such cases, so it was resolved that any payment should be made in cash. Even the sh11m we are getting from Haks has been coming in cash for the last two months.â€
Koire named the six accounts as the general operations, Zakat marali, annual subscription, Hijja and Umrah, the mosque construction fund and the national mosque reconstruction accounts.
He explained that UMSC closed the mosque construction fund and the national mosque reconstruction accounts after donors for the old Kampala mosque construction decided to handle all the funds.
Koire also told the committee that UMSC did not have an internal auditor and was last audited by an external company in 2000.
He said the principle signatories to the accounts were the Secretary General, Edris Kasenene and himself.
Mufti Shaban Mubajje was also a signatory to most of the accounts until 2004, when the executive committee queried him about it.
Koire said the top managers had locked him out of the leasing of the plots. He said Kasenene had taken all his powers of managing the council funds. He said he learnt about the leasing of the plots after the agreements were signed.