Jennifer Musisi Photo Credit: Monitor

The Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority Jennifer Semakula Musisi has put members of parliament on spotlight over demanding bribes from witnesses and accounting officers. Jennifer Musisi made the revelation while at the seminar of accounting officers organized by the public Accounts committee of parliament held at parliament’s conference hall.

Musisi’s revelations were sparked by the chairperson of the Public Accounts committee Alice Alaso when she told the accounting officers not to tempt MPs with bribes because they want to go to heaven clean.

Musisi said that accounting officers are many times subjected to demands coming from various committees’ members where they are summoned to appear. She said that she knows many people who are held at ransom by these demands and are threatened to face difficulty in the committee. She went ahead to say that accounting officers are working in a very corrupt country and system and they feel threatened when before some parliamentary committees.

Musisi however told MPs that some of the accounting officers like her have not succumbed to bribe demands by some MPs because they want to go to heaven.

The permanent secretary in the ministry of Gender, Pius Bigirimana, accused MPs of basing their recommendations on sentiments rather than evidence.