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Lukwago wants Bamugemereire Investigated for the allowances

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Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago has ordered for investigations into his 2013 impeachment process and the allowances that were paid to Justice Catherine Bamugemereire.

Lukwago also wants City Hall probed for the acquisition and running of Usafi and Wandegaya markets. He wants details made public for allowances to Justice Bamugemereire, the venues (Metropole Hotel and Serena Hotel), legal fees paid to the lawyers hired by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) among others. He also wants to establish who determined allowances for Justice Bamugemereire.

In a letter dated September 5, Mr Lukwago instructed the KCCA Director of Internal Audit, Moses Bwire, to submit two reports to his office within one month.
“Pursuant to the provisions of Section 11 (1) (e) and (f), read together with Section 72 (2) (b) of the Kampala Capital City Authority Act 2011, you are hereby instructed to carry out a special value-for-money audit of all matters concerning the aforesaid botched impeachment of the Lord Mayor of Kampala, 2013 to-date,” Mr Lukwago’s letters reads.

Justice Bamugemereire was named by President Yoweri Museveni to head the KCCA tribunal and carryout an inquiry into whether the complaints that councillors had brought against Lukwago then held water and established that there was a prima facie case for the indictment process to proceed.
The expenditures of the commission that paved the way for the botched impeachment process of Lord Mayor Lukwago were not made public.

Lukwago wants the impending special audit to capture issues related to their management and administration of the markets, allocation and tenure of lock-ups, kiosks and open spaces; court cases; and the revenues generated since inception. The audit will also look into the court cases relating to the acquisition, administration and management of markets.

In its November 2013 report, the commission reported that the councillors would proceed to impeach Mr Lukwago on grounds of incompetence and failure to convene Authority meetings. On November 25, 2013, the councillors voted to remove Mr Lukwago from office in a process that court later ruled was void because the voting proceeded despite the presence of a court order stopping it.

Justice Bamugemereire has so far chaired two commissions of Inquiry and these are the Uganda National Roads Authority commission and now heading the Commission of Inquiry into land matters. Given the hefty allowances that come with chairing such commissions and tribunals, Justice Bamugemereire could probably be the richest judge as she is entitled to her monthly salary as a judge of Court of Appeal.

Bamugemereire who has asked for extension of the commission’s time into land matters two times has also faced it rough with Ministry of Finance officials led by Permanent Secretary Keith Muhakanizi who has on several occasions accused her of extravagance. She is on spot for busting investigating land related wrangles.

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