President Yoweri Museveni will become the latest senior government official to ross-examined in the disputed payment of Shs6b to 42 select government officials for winning two oil cases against British firms.
The head of state will on Wednesday face Members of Parliament of the parliamentary committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises, media reports say.
“We have agreed with State House and finally meeting the His Excellency on the handshake tomorrow,” a source in the committee who asked not to be named was quoted by ChimpReports.
But Don Wanyama, the Senior Presidential Press Secretary, was yet to make an announcement about the scheduled parliamentary probe session by presstime.
Museveni is understood to have already met the handshake beneficiaries at his upcountry home in Rwakitura and later wrote a letter to the minister of Finance, Maria Kasaija to release the Shs 6bn.
Mr Kasaija in March admitted before a parliamentary inquiry that is investigating the circumstances under which the payment offended Section 25 of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), 2015, that governs reallocation of money by accounting officers.
The Inspector General of Government (IGG), Justice Irene Mulyagonja, has previously told the committee that the arrangement to dole out the Shs6b presidential handshake was illegal and warned that “conflict of interest has overrun government.”
