NATIONAL NEWS NEW VISION, Friday, September 3, 2010 5 Atubo defends taking part in NRM polls By CYPRIAN MUSOKE a Makerere University student, under the NRM party. You can- hibited independents from par- Milton Ocen. not refuse me from exercising my ticipating in party primaries.“I Lands minister Daniel Omara Atubo told New Vision that he EC right of freely choosing a party I don’t think it does, but I will Atubo has defended his partici- would legally be deemed to have n The Electoral Commis- want to belong to,” Atubo said. need to crosscheck and see what pation in the National Resistance crossed to the Movement when sion said it had not yet Electoral Commission (EC) the actual letter of the law is.” Movement (NRM) primaries, he is sworn in as an NRM MP discussed how to handle chairman Eng. Badru Kiggundu His deputy, Fred Ruhindi, said saying it does not mean he has in 2011. independent MPs said: “We had not yet got time there could be a special arrange- crossed to the party. There are about 40 indepen- as a commission to sit down, ment between the NRM and the Atubo, who was elected as dents in the current Parliament. analyse and get a common po- independents contesting in the an independent to the eighth The number is expected to rise one was elected automatically sition on the independents. It primaries. Parliament, was on Tuesday in the next one. loses his or her seat. (independents) is a very fluid Another MP, Alfred Onzima, elected as NRM flag-bearer for According to the Constitution “I have not crossed. I am still category.” who was recently expelled from the MP for Otuke county seat af- and the Parliamentary Elections an independent in the eighth The Attorney General and jus- the FDC, also voted in the NRM t e r d e f e a t i n g h i s f o r m e r p o l i t i c a l Act, an MP who crosses to anoth- Parliament. But I am saying for tice minister, Khiddu Makubuya, primaries but he did not stand as Daniel Omara Atubo assistant, Kenneth Olelo, and er party other than that in which the next Parliament, I will contest said he did not think the law pro- a candidate. Global Fund suspect pinned over sh31m Police testifies against Kisoro judge By EDWARD ANYOLI PICTURE BY ROGERS OKWANY By EDWARD ANYOLI receipts acknowledging pay- A detective attached to the Inspec- ment,” Namanya said. torate of Government yesterday The director of Mulumba Inc, Patrick Wafula, another said she discovered sh100,000 on Stephen Wakhweya, accused prosecution witness, testified David Cheptuke Kaye, the Kisoro of mismanaging sh31m of the that Bududa Hospital never Grade I Magistrate. Global Fund money, bought received sh626,000 from Mu- Catherine Kusemererwa said the medical insurance worth 7.2m lumba Inc for tuberculosis money was given to Cheptuke af- from the International Air Am- counseling and payment for ter he solicited for a bribe to grant bulance (IAA) Hospital. baseline analysis and produc- bail to three suspects. Flavia Nansubuga, the op- tion of data. Kusemererwa told Justice Paul erational manager of IAA, He disowned a receipt alleg- Mugamba of the Anti-corruption David Cheptuke told the Anti-corruption Court edly issued by Mulumba Inc Court that she had earlier recorded yesterday that Wakhweya was for payment for counselling. the serial numbers of the sh50,000 the IGG that Cheptuke had asked registered as a silver client of Wafula, an administrator at bank notes before the trap was for sh200,000 to grant bail to his IAA in the name of Mulumba Budada Hospital, told court laid. The money was tendered in cousins charged with malicious Inc, an NGO that was con- that the hospital did not re- court as evidence. damage of property. tracted to carry out Global ceive any fund in relation to Kusemererwa said Cheptuke Cheptuke faces one count of Fund activities. Global Fund activities. acknowledged in the presence of soliciting for gratification and Nansubuga told Justice Paul Wakhweya is alleged to have the arresting officer that the money two counts of receiving gratifica- Mugamba that Wakhweya mismanaged sh31,915,040 was recovered from him. tion. He is said to have received registered at IAA in 2005. he received from the Project Kusemererwa said she started sh100,000 from Angella Uwayesu Personal silver cover gives Management Unit in March investigations after John Bosco and another sh100,000 from John patients unlimited access to 2005. Nyondo lodged a complaint with Bosco Nyondo. treatment. The money was meant to David Namanya, the for- cater for HIV/AIDS related ac- mer finance manager of the tivities, support orphans and TARPO INDUSTRIES (U) LTD Joint Clinical Research Centre other vulnerable children. (JCRC) denied reports that the Wakhweya also faces charg- Makers of finest Tents & Camping centre received sh1,855,000 es of uttering false documents, Equipments from Mulumba Inc as payment claiming he had carried out for counselling and training of several activities in connec- Sales Office at Oasis Shopping Mall, Basement Parking,Shop No:LGFB 1 the NGO staff. tion with the project. Prosecu- TEL:0312 109340 & 0414 680463 Namanya said JCRC never tion led by state attorney Jane Yusuf Lule Road,Kampala carried out such activities. Okuo said Wakhweya did not “We did not have such re- account for the money. 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