EXTREME CORRUPTION AT BUSHENYI ISHAKA MUNICIPALITY: TENDERS GIVEN TO FRIENDS AT 50% COMMISSION

By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante

In Bushenyi——

Contracts at Bushenyi Ishaka municipality are being awarded to friends at a commission of 50% by the procurement officer Roberto Nuwagira .

Bushenyi ishaka municipality receives one billion every financial year to work on roads and Roberto Nuwagira ensures that the biggest contracts are taken by the former Engineer and friend Eng. Deus Nuwagaba Beingana each one taking 50% of the total contract.

www.mknewslink.com interviewed the town clerk who is the accounting officer  Mr. Seleverio Mukobi Byarufu and he said that if he is giving contracts in such a manner, he is doing it outside the municipal arrangement adding that incase he is caught he will be penalized.

“MD Mknewslink.com, I want to assure you that Iam the one who gives contracts therefore if those problems are there, they are doing it as friends not formally,” Mukobi noted.

When asked why he is bringing back Eng. Deus Nuwagaba to win contracts after he was fired from the same institution over corruption, he explained that he is a Ugandan and has a registered company with URSB therefore there is no reason why he can be denied a contract.

Civilian generals of Make Bushenyi Greater Again sometime back arrested him and took him to police on charges of corruption but the case did not proceed.

Deus Nuwagaba was shortly fired and replaced with Eng. Mugumya who is doing a good job despite interferences by the procurement officer Roberto Nuwagira.

www.mknewslink.com tried to reach out to the mayor Richard Byaruhanga but his numbers could not go through.

Eng. Adam Banyenzaki told www.mknewslink.com  MD in an online  interview this I he has heard about the corruption in the procurement but asked this senior editor and journalist to contact his boss Eng. Mugumya who was not picking our calls many times.