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Fighting corruption is now an open war-Museveni

Fighting corruption is now an open war-Museveni

Uganda

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has warned that the arrest of country’s minister of Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations Herbert Kabafunzaki is a taste of what is yet to come in the fight against corruption.

He vowed that all people involved in corruption will be exposed and dealt with according to the law.

The president gave the warning while addressing journalists from the ten districts of Busoga as he wrapped up his three-day community mobilization tour of Mayuge district where he also commissioned a new State Lodge and a presidential demonstration farm in Kityerela sub-county.

Museveni defended government’s slow response to previous corruption cases saying the vice has become complex with educated people in public offices making almost impossible to pin them without an evidence.

“Now we have started to open a war against them; those who have been arrested are is a taste of what is to come’; you will see what comes next,” Museveni warned.

His statement came barely a week after labour Minister Hebert Kabafunzaki was arrested for allegedly soliciting a bribe from Hamid Muhammed, the proprietor of AYA Group of Companies.

The Rukiga County MP, alongside his personal assistant Brian Mugabo and an interior designer Bruce Lubowa, was subsequently charged with two counts of corruption and one count of conspiracy.

The minister’s arrest came less than a month after the arrest of John Charles Ogol, a principal finance officer, and Geoffrey Turyamuhika, a senior economist with the ministry of Finance for also allegedly soliciting and receiving a bribe of $ 300,000 (about Shs 1.07 billion) from Chinese investors.

The suspects were reportedly arrested on the orders of President Museveni upon numerous complaints from Guagzhou Dongsough Energy (U) Ltd, a company undertaking the construction of a power sub-station and transmission line of Osukuru phosphate project in Tororo district.

The money was reportedly meant to facilitate the officials to expedite the documentation on financing the project.

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