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Parliament questions MUBS Principlal Prof. Wasswa Balunywa over lost University land

Agnes Tumuheire — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:12:48 +0000

Makerere University Business School (MUBS) Principal, Professor Wasswa Balunywa: COURTESY PHOTO

Makerere University Business School (MUBS) Principal, Professor Wasswa Balunywa has faced the Public Accounts Committee-PAC to answer questions on how the University lost a big chant of land.

The Auditor General, John Muwanga‘s report for the financial year 2016/2017 indicates over 12 acres of the University land in Bugolobi was lost to an investor.

The report shows that the investor, through the Uganda Land Commission, compensated the University with approximately 2.2 acres of land Butabika swamp near Kireka.

However, it is alleged that the compensated University land was already inhabited by squatters and part of it is a swamp.

The asked Balunywa why MUBS accepted a swamp as compensation for the prime school land in Bugolobi.

Responding to the PAC Chairperson, Gerald Karuhanga‘s query on how the University could accept a swamp, Balunywa claimed that a request for an alternative land had already been submitted to the Uganda Land Commission.Another query was on how MUBS carried out major renovation works at its Jinja campus at Shillings 679 million yet the land and buildings belong to Jinja Municipal Council and is currently allocated to Narambhai Primary School.

Prof. Balunywa asked for the intervention of the committee prompting Karuhanga to summon Uganda Land Commission.

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Jinja municipal council workers arrested over alleged corruption

Gerald Businge — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:12:41 +0000

Three workers of Jinja municipal council have been arrested by the inspector general of government for alleged corruption. The arrested suspects are Anest Nabihamba, the principal municipal environment officer, Michael Kakonge the municipal road.

They are accused of embezzlement and making false accounting of public money. They allegedly committed the offense between2008-2009.

They allegedly provided false accountability without any work done. Nahinda presented receipts claiming that he had used 800,000 shillings for planting grass at the Masese manure composite site whereas not.

Kakongo on the other hand made an accountability of 4.8 million shillings made for purchase of bitumen and fire wood to be used during road construction. The acting inspector general of government spokesperson Hassan Walusimbi says the dual were picked from their offices by the inspector general of government detectives and taken to Kampala central police station where they will be got and produced to the Ant-corruption court

By Mugisa Isaac Mathias

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