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Subject: Noose tightening: Kutesa faces travel ban
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Kutesa faces travel ban
Posted Tuesday, September 6 2011 at 00:00
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Minister Kutesa faces UK travel ban over Chogm
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The UK and US governments have secretly been working to impose a travel ban on
a number of Ugandan officials, with Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa as the
first choice for visa restrictions, over allegations they pilfered Chogm money.
US envoy Jerry Lanier in a diplomatic cable, leaked by whistleblower website,
Wikileaks, toldWashington: “We regard Kutesa’s corruption as egregious, but
believe Security Minister Amama Mbabazi’s continued misappropriation of public
funds will have an adverse impact on US national interests in Uganda.” Both
ministers deny any involvement in corruption and have not been convicted in any
courts of law.
MPs who investigated the Chogm spending, accused Mr Mbabazi of influencing
selection of Balton (U) Ltd firm to supply TETRA communication equipment at an
“inflated” $5m (Shs14b). They asked IGG Raphael Baku to carry out further
investigations, which he did and cleared Mr Mbabazi.
Yesterday, Mr Baku, who said he had not cleared Mr Kutesa, accused by MPs of
interfering in Chogm procurements for personal gain. “The investigations are
still ongoing,” Mr baku said.
Former Vice President Gilbert Bukenya is the only other high-ranking government
official, besides indicted former works chief Sam Bagonza, to face trial for
allegedly siphoning part of the more than Shs500b monies.
The British High Commissioner Philip Mani reacted angrily that such
confidential information had leaked: “It is our policy not to comment on the
substance of leaked documents. We condemn any unauthorised release of this
classified information, just as we condemn leaks of classified material in the
UK.” If effected, the decision to slap travel ban would most likely stop the
individuals from conducting business and expose some of their reported
investments overseas to possible seizures.
Mr Kutesa neither received nor returned both our telephone call and text
message to his mobile telephone. Mr Mbabazi too could not answer our repeated
telephone calls.
In the diplomatic cable, Mr Lanier reported that an official at the British
High Commission in Kampala and another from the Department for International
Development on January 7 informed the US embassy’s Political/Economic Affairs
Chief, Aaron Sampson, that the UK is “seriously considering visa restrictions
for Ugandan officials guilty of embezzling Chogm-related funds”.
Ambassador Lanier mentioned Minister Kutesa as UK’s “primary target” for the
travel ban and its officials were likely to ask the US to follow suit once the
review of Chogm expenditure by the High Commission was completed.
UK’s outrage at the embezzlement of the funds was separately reported to US
embassy officials by an ex-Ugandan ambassador to the UN and a local magazine
journalist who said they had been informed by contacts in London way back last
December.
We could not reach Mr Lanier, or any US embassy official to speak on the matter
yesterday, because the officials were off duty.
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James Ssemakula
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