President Museveni has written to Investment minister Evelyn Anite directing her to audit UTL activities. In a letter dated July 16, the President asked the minister “to institute an audit in the activities that are going on in Uganda Telecommunication Limited” adding that he had “heard of some allegations”.
“The audit should clear them or confirm them.”
Towards the end of June, Investment Minister Hon. Evelyn Anite told members of Parliament that the government no longer had control of UTL Operations. She further informed the MPs that the government no longer has access to the company premises and thus can’t do any audits or understand how this company is currently run.
The company administrators, led by Bemanya Twebaze, denied all the accusations that the minister made insisting that they never refused any government official from accessing UTL premises nor did they deny them them the right to audit the company as was alleged.
Ms Anite quickly responded with a directive asking the Attoney General’s office to fire Mr Twebaze from the position of administrator of UTL, something that the AG instead blocked citing that “there are no grounds to remove the administrator of UTL from office”.
The back and forth letters that were exchanged proved to be a war of authority which would only be intervened by the President, under whose power all the ministers were appointed.
In a letter dated 3rd July, addressed to Honourable Kahinda Otafire – the Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister, President Museveni asked that no action other than what was resolved by the Cabinet should be taken in regards to UTL. The letter didn’t not indicate which resolution cabinet had come to but it stated that the President and Hon. Otafire had engaged in a telephone conversation about the issue.
A day later, Hon. Otafire wrote to Mr Bemanya on the way to follow in regards to the “revamping of Uganda Telecom”.
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