For now, Members of Parliament and Staff of Parliament on the security most-wanted list over fraud in this institution are said to have employed a tactic of going underground to evade arrest.
Their calculation according to Inspectors is to see what President Museveni and his investigators are going to do with the already caged legislators. Their alleged most interest in this is to see whether the caged legislators are going to be given bail and at what stage. This is when some of them are reportedly going to surrender themselves to the authorities.
One such a legislator alleged to be under security hunt is from Busoga and the legislator has allegedly switched off all contacts.
The legislator is said to have been among the top beneficiaries of Shs1.7trillion which investigators think was stolen from national coffers in the last two years alone.
The legislator is said to be part of the list of 12 legislators whom General Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni handed to CID director Maj. Tom Magambo as a starting point for the investigations. On the same list were a list of eight top staff of Parliament and seven unpatriotic officials in the Ministry for Finance, Planning and Economic Development.
The list according to Inspectors was handed to Entebbe airport security to ensure no MP or staff on the secret red list leaves the country.
However, what wasn’t envisaged according to Inspectors is the fact that some members could use our porous borders to flee the country.
Inspectors now reveal that one of the legislators from Busoga who is on wanted list could have managed to vanish using the eastern front although the search continues within the country where the member is believed to be in hiding.
“All phones are off but the hunt is on for the member. What is clear is that none of the wanted members has managed to use Entebbe. Security is determined to help the President on this because this group seems to be sophisticated” explained an inspector.
We have been told that the wanted MPs and Parliament staff have allegedly employed a tactic of vanishing with a view of gauging President Museveni’s resolve on fighting corruption.
In their calculation the suspects want to see whether their colleagues already in police custody will be given bail.
“How many days will they be in custody before getting this bail? Once they get to know this, then many of them will likely surface” explained an inspector.
It is stated that the reason Gen. Museveni wants action on these MPs and their partners in crime is because he wants to teach them a lesson but also to recover close to two trillion shillings that is said to have been stolen in the past two years.
“Some of the MPs and Staff are going to be used as state witnesses. The reason more are being arrested is to ensure that detectives get more statements so that all those involved are apprehended” explained an inspector.
President Museveni last week promised the nation that he was tired of thieves and he was going to prove his wrath to the gang terrorizing the national coffers.
We also reported yesterday that the head of State had allegedly okayed a plan to charge some of the MPs and Staff for treason especially those who participated in obtaining bribes from foreign countries to shoot down government’s interests in the Petroleum resources legislations. Museveni’s latest actions have earned him more support among wanainchi and his former UPM founders including Col. Stephen Basaliza alias Omuduumizi.
Omuduumizi who currently serves as a commissioner in Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) told this News site that the current wave of fighting corruption is a step in the right direction.
“Our people want services and these services can only reach them if we have all leaders playing their role. The funds that are allocated to deliver those services must therefore be properly accounted for. Otherwise, when we formed UPM under our leader YK Museveni, fighting corruption was top on our agenda. Therefore, no one should interfere with the process already set in motion” the bush war comrade who was also head of Anti-smuggling unit of URA told this News site when contacted.
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