Accused of using his position to lobby for the compensation of certain companies and individuals, the State Minister for Planning, David Bahati is the man chosen to accompany President Museveni to Juba on Thursday on a very lucrative mission.
State House revealed that Museveni who was in South Sudan for a one-day official visit tasked Mr Bahati to negotiate on a mode of payment for Ugandan traders who supplied the war ravaged country with food items between 2008-2010.
Mr Bahati, said the Agreement was struck after a sideline meeting with the South Sudan Finance Minister, Stephen Dhieu Dau. The details, Mr Bahati said, would be communicated to the responsible parties.
Mr Bahati was joined in the discussion by Hon Anite Among, the Bukedea Woman MP who also sits on the Finance Committee of Parliament and Mr Apollo Nyegamehe, a member of the Uganda Grain Council, representing traders.
Recently, government agreed to pay the Ugandan traders Shs360 billion for the goods and services offered to the South Sudan government before the country degenerated into chaos in December 2013.
Bahati came to international attention in October 2009 after introducing the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill as a Private Member’s Bill on 13 October proposing that a new offence be created in Uganda named “aggravated homosexuality” which would be punishable as a capital offence.
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