So this now still leaves the question of who Ezra is, who is behind him, who is protecting him, un answered. But at least now we know that Bgd Jimmy Muhwezi does support him and wants him left alone.
Ministers and even the president have been asked to account for their wealth, but apparently Ezra is too hot for this. We shounldt know how he came into his wealth.
If Muhwezi is protecting Ezra then we can safely say that M7 himself is not very far behind jimmy.
Is Ezra Eso? ISO, CMI,PGU or presidents office itself? How did he make his money/wealth.
We shall never know now.
read on!
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Leave Ezra alone, says Muhwezi
By Mwanguhya Charles Mpagi
April 16, 2004
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KAMPALA � Health minister Jim Muhwezi said yesterday that debate over Mr Michael Ezra�s past was designed to pull the tycoon down. Speaking about recent revelations of Ezra�s past, including tales of blackmail and extortion, Brig. Muhwezi said that the businessman should �not be hanged�. �Michael Ezra has until recently been in the press for doing a good job,� Muhwezi told journalists at the government�s weekly media briefing in Nakasero yesterday. �If there is anyone with a complaint against Michael Ezra, let the complainant come out and government as usual will take interest to investigate,� he added. Recent press reports revealed that Ezra was arrested, charged and sentenced to a fine for blackmail, extortion and impersonating military intelligence agents in 1999. However, Brig. Muhwezi said yesterday that the attacks on Ezra were laced with envy. �You cannot say that you want everyone to be poor,� the minister said. Describing Ezra as a �magnanimous businessman� who gives people money, Muhwezi said it would be unfair to brand the businessman a thief simply because of his money. He attacked what he called the �British culture of levelling people�. Said the minister: �In America when someone buys an expensive car, the other gets another job so that he can buy it but here people want to kill you so that all of you don�t have cars.� At yesterday�s briefing, Information minister Nsaba Buturo said Ezra was not a government �functionary.� The former Director General of the External Security Organisation, Mr David Pulkol, said this week that Ezra was given a diplomatic passport to help return some exiles to the country. �ESO and other security organisations use all sorts of people but that does not mean that he is a government functionary,� Buturo said. Ezra also called off a planned press conference yesterday at Sheraton Hotel Kampala. Sources said the sports philanthropist feared that the meeting would be derailed from its agenda � addressing sports issues. �Some people thought that he was going to address the issues that have appeared in the press recently,� an official of Uganda Sports Press Association to which Ezra is a patron told The Monitor. Additional notes By Hussein Bogere. |
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