Kasiano Wadri denies bribe claims in UNRA probe

UNRAFormer Terego county MP Kasiano Wadri denied claims that he received a bribe from the Uganda national roads authority-UNRA to cover up the Institution corruption scandal while he was a chairperson of the parliamentary public accounts committee since June 2011 to 2013. The commission of inquiry into mismanagement of the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) in its report  directed police to investigate Budadiri West MP Nandala Mafabi and former Terego County MP Kassiano Wadri for alleged bribe-taking to protect implicated thieving UNRA officials.
Kasiano wadri says that at no time did he handle issues concerning UNRA case when was still the committee chairperson. He adds that by that time the auditor general had unearthed loss of billions of shilling by UNRA nobody could tamper with the issue.

Kasino confirms that he was asked by the commission of inquiry to appear before it however he did not appear because they did not pass through a right channel to make a member of parliament to be before any probe. He says that he is ready to be probed over the matter.

After a six-month probe on UNRA activities by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire, it was discovered that at least 4 Trillion shillings was misappropriated by the old UNRA structure whereas 9 Trillion shillings was used to construct 1500km of roads in 7 years yet these funds were enough to cover 5147km.

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