However, information leaking to Kyaggwe TV indicates that the two, Eng. Kibuuka and Speaker Nakasi were in Saturday night transferred from Mukono Police Station to some yet unknown detention places as investigations to bring to book more suspects still rages.
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Tempers are rising following relocation to an unknown place of the jailed Mukono district executives including the chairman of the District Service Commission (DSC) Eng. Godfrey Kibuuka Kisuule and the District Council Speaker, Betty Hope Nakasi, in connection to the fraudulent ‘jobs-for-sale’ scandal which was brought to light in a speech by the district chairperson, Rev. Dr. Peter Bakaluba Mukasa.
Following a recent disclosure by Bakaluba of his decision to freeze the DSC pending investigations on alleged extortion of money from job seekers, the State House Anti-Corruption Unit (SHACU) swung into action and met the commission executives in a day long closed meeting at the district’s boardroom, and the meeting culminated into the duo’s arrest.
Highly placed sources indicated that some unnamed members of the commission confessed to having solicited for money from more job seekers than available jobs, and they were turned into SHACU’s witnesses to pin the arrested and others still at large.
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However, information leaking to Kyaggwe TV indicates that the two, Eng. Kibuuka and Speaker Nakasi were in Saturday night transferred from Mukono Police Station to some yet unknown detention places as investigations to bring to book more suspects still rages.
Our source who said they were not authoritative enough to comment on the matter, agreed that the two had been transferred but could not divulge more information. They however said more arrests are imminent as the network is very wide and extends to other districts in the Greater Mukono region.
Attempts to get to SHACU spokesperson, Mariam Natasha via her known mobile number were fruitless as our calls went unanswered. Natasha however last week confirmed that the two were in detention at Mukono Police Station as investigations continue, and did not rule out the possibility of making more arrests, especially members of the district service commission, politicians and civil servants.
“Whoever will be implicated will be arrested and accordingly charged in courts of law to answer to charges preferred against them, as we have been in other districts”, Natasha said.
A SHACU operative who did not want to be named told us last week that Speaker Nakasi’s undoing was acting at the go-between by allegedly receiving money from victims and passing it on to the commission members.
A bitter job seeker desperately complained against Dr. Wataba Saad of Lugazi Municipality who took sh35m from him with promises of getting him a juicy job through the District Service Commission, which however never came to pass.
In a statement recorded at Mukono police, Dr. Wataba confessed that he had passed on the money to Nakisunga sub-county chairperson, Mubarak Ssekikubo who was the alleged link up to commission chairman Eng. Kibuuka.
Other areas to be looked into include, the district officials who, using the powers based on their offices, directed for jobs to be dished out to applicants who never satisfied the requirements of the commission, plus those who had outrightly failed the pre-requisite tests, and in this respect, accusing fingers are being pointed at the district chairman Rev. Dr. Peter Bakaluba Mukasa.