Sam Kutesa ready for prosecution if found guilty of taking oil bribe

The minister of Foreign Affairs Sam Kahamba Kutesa has said he is ready to face prosecution and serve any sentence if it is found through thorough investigations that he took the alleged bribes from an oil company.

While appearing before the oil Adhoc committee chaired by Michael Werikhe, Kutesa said he never received the alleged17 million Euros from oil companies.

Documents presented to Parliament by the youth member of parliament for western Region Gerald Karuhanga alleged that Kutesa and two other ministers received varying amounts of bribe money to help the oil company secure its interests in Uganda.

When MPS asked him why his name keeps coming up in bribery scandals Kutesa said that the bribe allegations against him are political and are advanced by his political enemies.

He said that Karuhanga’s oil bribe decrements tabled before parliament during oil debate on 11th October are false.

Kutes said that these papers presented by karuhanga were given to him by the international companies which lost the oil business  because Karuhanga has no expertise  and  capacity to forge such  sophisticated  documents.

He advised mp Karuhanga to desist from being used in a matter which is damaging people s hard earned image.

Kutesa was furious over when Mps asked him how his son in law Albert Muganga came to be in the oil business in Jinja oil reserves and he warned them to avoid bringing in the relatives of politicians when politicians are implicated in any scandal because there is no law stopping their sons, daughters, wives and relatives to do any business in the country.

By Isaac Senabulya

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