President Yoweri Museveni has ordered that the forensic audit report into the Shs60Bn money heist at Bank of Uganda be handed over to Police’s Criminal Investigation Department for further management due to the incriminating evidence unearthed by the Auditor General into the scandalous transaction.
The revelation was made by Speaker Anita Among.
“There was an issue raised by the Leader of Opposition, Joel Ssenyonyi about the money that disappeared in Bank of Uganda and we asked for a forensic investigation on that money. The Auditor General has done a very good job, they have done a forensic investigation and they have given me the report, the report is available. I have been in consultation with the President on this matter and looking at the ingredients that have been found there, they are criminal in nature and because of the criminality, we would direct this report to be taken directly to Criminal Investigations Department for further management,” remarked Among. And the CID will report to us on the action that has been taken.
However, a section of MPs led by Geoffrey Ekanya (Tororo North) and Wilfred Niwagaba (Ndorwa East) protested the decision by both Speaker and President Museveni handing over the Bank of Uganda Forensic report directly to Police, instead of having it scrutinized by the relevant Committees of Parliament before such a decision is taken.
“The Rules mandates you and you are the Chairperson of Classified Committees to handle any matter that are criminal and security nature. I am not privileged to the report that has been laid regarding Bank of Uganda but I would have thought that exercising your power that report would have been handled by the Committee that you chair, that is the Classified Committee before it is referred for proper management,” noted Ekanya.
“I thought this was a report of the Auditor General, which report would ordinarily be passed over to the Committee of this House and which Committee would come up with the report itself, and which report would be debated by this House and which House would either decide to forward the main report of the Auditor General to the relevant investigating authority,” argued Niwagaba.
