These are the kinds of public fund embezzlements that keeps Uganda, and indeed
Africa underdeveloped! Idiot leaders emebezzling public funds with impunity.
Well, keep this plus many other issues alive. Eventually these individuals
will have to pay back the money, or their wealth taken. Period.
Ocii
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MPs probe Museveni schools in Tanzania Yasiin Mugerwa PARLIAMENT
A PARLIAMENTARY committee has instituted a probe into circumstances under
which President Yoweri Museveni spent Shs1.6 billion of tax-payers money to
construct two schools in Tanzania.
The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee yesterday instructed its legal
department to investigate the conditions under which the President committed
public funds amounting to US$932,823.2 to build two secondary schools in
Tanzania.
The two schools include Nyamiyaga, Murongo located in Karagwe area and
Nyarigamba, Muhutwe situated in Muleba District bordering Bokoba area.
According to correspondences Daily Monitor has seen, the construction of the
two schools began some time in 2005 after Multiplex Ltd, a Ugandan private
company allegedly won the contract.
The construction comes at a time when there is acute shortage of classrooms for
Universal Primary Education and Universal Secondary Education in the country.
Concern was raised after the committee learnt that the money (Shs1.6 billion)
Mr Museveni used for the construction was charged on the donation account of
the StateHouse budget without authority. The committee also heard that the two
schools were a donation by Mr Museveni to the Tanzanians for their historical
contribution to the 1979 liberation struggle that ousted the former President,
late Idd Amin Dada from power.
This is unacceptable as Parliament we cannot appropriate money for Tanzanians
yet many Ugandans are still grappling with illiteracy. This money would have
gone to Luweero District but not Tanzania, said Nandala Mafabi (Budadiri West)
the committee chairperson.
This was a Ugandan struggle not for Tanzanians. If the president wished to
donate he would have used his personal savings not public resources. To bring
this (donation) to our budget was wrong.
Richard Muhinda, the Statehouse Comptroller said the money was part of
President Musevenis donation item and is not limited to any country. The
President is the fountain of honour and is free to donate to any person that
deserves assistance in whatever locality, said Mr Muhinda.
It had been an outstanding donation to the people of Tanzania and we had to
squeeze our own budget (StateHouse) to fulfill this pledge.
But the committee has established that even the circumstances under which
Multiplex Ltd was awarded a $1 million contract to construct the two schools
had loopholes.
It is alleged that the tendering process was not clear since Mr Muhinda
admitted that there was no advertising made inviting other bidders as the
construction of both schools was an emergency.
Mr Muhinda insists that there was no foul play because StateHouse used
restrictive bidding involving Multiplex Ltd, Roko Construction Company Ltd,
Transaction International and Complliant Engineers & Trade Ltd.
We offered the tender to Multiplex because they had a fair deal. Their rates
were lower compared to others. I am proud to have been part of this project
because it was transparent and we followed the law, Mr Muhinda said.
But the committee wondered whether it would be possible for Tanzanian
authorities to allow Ugandan Parliament to conduct a value-for money audit into
the project.
Daily Monitor has learnt that State House contract with Multiplex was not
signed by any Multiplex official but instead with the Tanzanian government.
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