Despite being out of the country, Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago has scorned accusations pointed at him and the Inspector General of Police General Kale Kayihura over the misappropriation of at least sh19 billion collected at the City Abattoir over the last six years.
Controversial Kampala City tycoon Hassan Bassajjabalaba on Wednesday while appearing before the Presidential affairs committee of Parliament implicated the powerful duo of benefitting from about Shs. 20b collected illegally from livestock traders at city abattoirs.
And the embattled city mayor took to Facebook to distance himself from the allegations of embezzlement.
“I’m still in Israel on official duties but have received reports that Hassan Basajjabalaba made outrageous, malicious and false allegations against me in connection with the management of City abattoir while appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on Presidential Affairs yesterday,” he wrote.
“I will have adequate time to handle the same legally once I return to Kampala though he may not merrit a serious response for obvious reasons. I’m alive to the fact that he issued those outlandish statements in a forum that is privileged under the law, I challenge him to repeat the same outside the precincts of parliament and face the full wrath of the law.”
Bassajjabalaba also pinned the IGP for continuously ignoring courts orders that directing that the businessman repossesses the contested abattoir.
Basajjabalaba and the City Abattoir Traders Development Association (CATDA) are embroiled in an ownership row over the abattoir.
Tycoon Basajja, be warned!
