• EDITORIAL POLICY
  • ABOUT US
PML Daily
  • Home
  • NEWS
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Regional
    • Africa
    • World
  • INVESTIGATIONS
    • National Archives
    • Special Reports
  • OpEd
  • BUSINESS
    • Agriculture
    • Tech
    • Finance
  • FEATURES
    • Health
    • Tours & Travel
    • Entertainment
    • Society
  • COLUMNISTS
    • The Suited Penguin
  • SPORT
  • Jobs
  • Magazines
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • NEWS
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Regional
    • Africa
    • World
  • INVESTIGATIONS
    • National Archives
    • Special Reports
  • OpEd
  • BUSINESS
    • Agriculture
    • Tech
    • Finance
  • FEATURES
    • Health
    • Tours & Travel
    • Entertainment
    • Society
  • COLUMNISTS
    • The Suited Penguin
  • SPORT
  • Jobs
  • Magazines
No Result
View All Result
PML Daily
No Result
View All Result
Home NEWS

Attorney General too weak to handle Kutesa bribery case, says Besigye

CONRAD AHABWE | PML Daily Senior Correspondent by CONRAD AHABWE | PML Daily Senior Correspondent
December 13, 2018
in NEWS
0 0
63
VIEWS
FacebookWhatsAppTwitter
Dr Kiiza Besigye, the former FDC president has criticised the Attorney General saying that he has no capacity to investigate Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kutesa over alleged corruption. (FILE PHOTO)

KAMPALA– Opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye has said the Attorney General does not have the capacity to investigate Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kutesa over his alleged role in the $500,000 (Shs1.9 billion) bribery case in the US.

Dr Besigye instead suggested that the case should be handled by police’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headed by Grace Akullo.

A US court last Tuesday convicted Patrick Chi-Ping Ho, the former Hong Kong Home Affairs Secretary for allegedly giving bribe of Shs1.9 billion to Mr Kutesa, allegedly on behalf of President Museveni in 2016 in order to get business favours in Uganda.

And on Monday, shortly after launching his anti-corruption unit in Kampala, Mr Museveni said the Attorney General will investigate the matter.

But Dr Besigye poured scorn on the whole process, saying there is no way a minister will investigate a colleague.

President Museveni said that Sam K. Kutesa, Minister of Foreign Affairs will be investigated by Attorney General over alleged corruption. (FILE PHOTO)

“The problem we have in Uganda is poor leadership; imagine Mr Museveni asking a minister to investigate a colleague Minister Mr Sam Kutesa over bribery instead of directing the criminal investigations department of the police to investigate him. There will be no fairness in the investigations,” he said at the burial of Cellinah Bamusiime Murumba in Bwegyerere Village, Rubanda Town Council in Rubanda District, Kigezi region on Wednesday.

“Our country is not poor but poor leadership is a big problem. During a press conference in Kampala recently, a journalist asked Mr Museveni about Mr Kutesa being implicated bribery case but feared to tell him that his portrait was also paraded in the same court marked as an exhibit of the person that received the money. Everybody in government was keeping quiet about the USA court ruling that implicated Mr Kutesa in the bribery case until a journalist raised it,” Dr Besigye said.

Attorney General William Byaruhanga. (FILE PHOTO)

He urged Ugandans to eat all the money government delivers during elections but vote for development like what the people of Rukungiri did during May by-election for the district Woman Member of Parliament.

He revealed that as FDC party they have resolved to always plant fruit trees at the burial of their departed colleagues because they will be permanent instead of buying expensive flowers that wither immediately.

 

 

Comments

Tags: Attorney GeneralcorruptionCRITICISEDR KIIZA BESIGYYESam Kutesatop

Related Posts

President Biden has targeted the elimination of billion-dollar oil and gas subsidies in the U.S. and called on other developed countries to do the same (PHOTO/Courtesy).
World

The Next 100 Days: Positioning Africa at the forefront of the Biden Administration

January 21, 2021
23
Photo taken in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, on Nov. 7, 2020, shows the live stream of U.S. Democratic nominee Joe Biden delivering a speech in Wilmington, Delaware (PHOTO/Xinhua).
World

Biden reverses U.S. withdrawal from WHO

January 21, 2021
63
Electoral Commission boss Justice Simon Byabakama (PHOTO/Courtesy).
NEWS

EC on the spot over leaked videos of alleged vote rigging, says they will investigate to ascertain their veracity

January 21, 2021
749
Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago casts his vote earlier on Wednesday, January 20. (PHOTO/Courtesy).
NEWS

Lord Mayor Lukwago wins re-election as NRM is dealt another blow in local govt polls

January 21, 2021
449
Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa briefing the diplomats (PHOTO/Courtesy).
NEWS

Uganda briefs foreign diplomats on just-concluded presidential elections

January 21, 2021
252
African Development Bank President Akinwumi A. Adesina (PHOTO/File).
BUSINESS

Africa is the world’s next business frontier, says AfDB’s Adesina

January 21, 2021
113






 

 

About

The PML Daily, published via www.pmldaily.com is a publication of Post Media Ltd, a professional Digital/New Media company in Uganda.

Follow us

KIU

  • EDITORIAL POLICY
  • ABOUT US

© 2020 PMLDAILY.COM

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • NEWS
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Regional
    • Africa
    • World
  • INVESTIGATIONS
    • National Archives
    • Special Reports
  • OpEd
  • BUSINESS
    • Agriculture
    • Tech
    • Finance
  • FEATURES
    • Health
    • Tours & Travel
    • Entertainment
    • Society
  • COLUMNISTS
    • The Suited Penguin
  • SPORT
  • Jobs
  • Magazines

© 2020 PMLDAILY.COM

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In