By KT Reporter
Media reports have emerged showing that state house wants ministry of finance official and URBRA director Moses Bekabye to shed light on the 100m bribery scandal he told the president about.
Bekabye was among the URBRA bosses the president met with on Tuesday April 1st. The president had called them to discuss the fate of fired URBRA CEO Martin Nsubuga whose contract ended on April 14th last year but went to court instead of handing over office.
The judge ruled that the board members hadn’t treated him properly and that Nsubuga deserved to be explained to as to why his contract wasn’t automatically renewed.
Court also ordered removal of some board members saying they hadn’t come in through proper procedures.
Confusion emerged when Nsubuga insisted that court had reinstated him on the job, which attorney general Kiryowa says isn’t the case because the fact, which can’t change through court, is that his contract ended on 14th April last year.
With Nsubuga refusing to leave and URBRA having no board to supervise management, Museveni decided to get involved after minister Matia Kasaija asked him to.
During the meeting at Entebbe state house, board members led by Tom Jjunjula presented documents showing that there had been financial mismanagement at URBRA under Martin Nsubuga. They indicated to the president this is part of the reason why Nsubuga didn’t merit reappointment.
Museveni rejected Nsubuga’s explanation that he was clean because the auditor general’s reports on him were all positive. Museveni said he believes in the internal audit reports more these days because external ones by the auditor general are waterred down after money changing hands.
Bekabye said that Nsubuga was a good man whose only problem was refusal to give board members 100m in order to get a new contract.
Online news reports show that Museveni said this was a very serious allegation and demanded that Bekabye, who also accused Matia Kasaijja and Goobi of being too busy to supervise URBRA, substantiates.
Bekabye started panicking and told the president he can only spill all the dirty secrets in a meeting of two people, himself and the president, because he was fearing to reveal the details when his bosses Goobi and Kasaija are present.
Museveni insisted that he says it there and then or keeps quiet forever.
Kasaija was angry and asked why Bekabye wasn’t reporting that bribery to him since they sit in the same building at the finance ministry headquarters.
Bekabye said he went to report on four occasions but was chased away by the minister’s secretaries and assistants.
Sources say that the allegations Bekabye made in order to save his man Nsubuga were very serious and he might be summoned by the state house anti corruption unit to show up and shed more light. Give us feedback on this story through our email: kamwokyatimes@gmail.com
