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 11^th 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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Aruu County MP, Odonga Otto

Aruu County MP, Odonga Otto yesterday filed a petition before the Attorney General’s office, seeking to call for 17 independent MPs to be thrown out of Parliament.

The MPs’ woes stem from their attendance of a retreat of NRM MPs at the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi over two weeks ago.

Speaking to journalists at Parliament, Otto contended that the legislators breached the contract with their voters by being involved in party activities yet they were sent to Parliament on no political party card.

The independent MPs recently attended the caucus called by the NRM leadership to discuss several issues, among them the special oil debate.

Speaking to the media at Parliament, Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi dismissed the claims that the independent MPs had been influenced to change their decisions made during the special oil debate, calling for the resignation of three ministers implicated in alleged corruption deals in the sector.

Mbabazi says the retreat was open to all and not the NRM party since several speakers made meaningful presentations on different issues.

Last year, 70 MPs, among them 8 ministers, lost their seats after the constitutional court ruled that the MPs vacate their seats for choosing to join other parties different from those to which they were elected to parliament.

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