Graft In Govt Irks MP Lukyamuzi
Feb 28, 2003
Rubaga South MP John Ken Lukyamuzi has criticised President Yoweri Museveni for reportedly condoning corruption by keeping corrupt ministers in Cabinet.
By Milton Olupot
Rubaga South MP John Ken Lukyamuzi has criticised President Yoweri Museveni for reportedly condoning corruption by keeping corrupt ministers in Cabinet.
Lukyamuzi this week named energy and mineral development minister Syda Bbumba as an accomplice in the loss of over $100m by Government over the Bujagali dam project.
He claimed that Bbumba colluded with AES Nile Power to misappropriate the money.
He said there is evidence of receipts signed by Bbumba, but Museveni had kept quiet about it.
Lukyamuzi was addressing a press conference in Parliament.
“President Museveni knows the crooked people people in his Government, why should it be the World Bank to interdict Richard Kaijuka, what about other ministers who colluded with AES to cause loss of $100m. Those ministers are moving at large,†he said.
Lukyamuzi said Museveni should name who owns Posta Uganda and uganda telecom.
“If foreign investors own the two companies, is it by coincidence that a good number of Museveni’s relatives are also employees of the same companies,†he queried.
He said he was investigating the sale, which he called ‘dubious’.
He named Museveni’s daughter Natasha as one of the people employed by one of the companies.
Lukyamuzi hailed Museveni over reports of possibilities of freeing political parties, but said the pressure to free parties must have come from donors and not investors.
He said: “We do not have investors here, what we have are collaborators and quack international traders who see Museveni as a god and they cannot have the energy to advise someone they worship.â€
He mooted the possibility of re-nationalisation.
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Rubaga South MP John Ken Lukyamuzi has criticised President Yoweri Museveni for reportedly condoning corruption by keeping corrupt ministers in Cabinet.
Lukyamuzi this week named energy and mineral development minister Syda Bbumba as an accomplice in the loss of over $100m by Government over the Bujagali dam project.
He claimed that Bbumba colluded with AES Nile Power to misappropriate the money.
He said there is evidence of receipts signed by Bbumba, but Museveni had kept quiet about it.
Lukyamuzi was addressing a press conference in Parliament.
“President Museveni knows the crooked people people in his Government, why should it be the World Bank to interdict Richard Kaijuka, what about other ministers who colluded with AES to cause loss of $100m. Those ministers are moving at large,†he said.
Lukyamuzi said Museveni should name who owns Posta Uganda and uganda telecom.
“If foreign investors own the two companies, is it by coincidence that a good number of Museveni’s relatives are also employees of the same companies,†he queried.
He said he was investigating the sale, which he called ‘dubious’.
He named Museveni’s daughter Natasha as one of the people employed by one of the companies.
Lukyamuzi hailed Museveni over reports of possibilities of freeing political parties, but said the pressure to free parties must have come from donors and not investors.
He said: “We do not have investors here, what we have are collaborators and quack international traders who see Museveni as a god and they cannot have the energy to advise someone they worship.â€
He mooted the possibility of re-nationalisation.
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