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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>As the storm over the misappropriated Karamoja iron sheets raged outside Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja moved to calm the situation, with what sounded like an apology.<\/p>\n

Ms Nabbanja\u2019s Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) coordinates distribution of relief items and is the mother ministry of the docket, whose minister Gorreti Kitutu, has since been arrested and sent on remand.<\/p>\n

Referring to media reports about ministers and MPs, who have recorded statements with the police indicating that Dr Kitutu interested them in the iron sheets as donations, Nabbanja said: \u201c… Because all the ministers claim that they were called by the minister (Kitutu), and [I] don\u2019t know if she called them after the investigations started.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she called them after the investigations had started, then this is regrettable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The minister made the statement during a meeting with Parliament\u2019s Presidential Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n

The Committee is wrapping up a parallel investigation into the mismanagement of relief items meant for Karamoja.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can have these other affirmative action programmes [in the OPM] replace those iron sheets in this regrettable incident. To me, this can be a way forward,\u201d Ms Nabbanja, who is also implicated in the scandal, said.<\/p>\n

The committee chairperson, Ms Jesca Ababiku (Adjumani), said their probe concentrates on the diversion of the supplementary budget under which 10,000 iron sheets were bought for Karamoja.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we asked for the accountability for the 9,000 balance [of iron sheets] we established, with clear records, that they were again donated outside Karamoja and thatn was where your name (Nabbanja) was appearing,\u201d Ms Ababiku said.<\/p>\n

In response, Ms Nabbanja said these were false allegations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that it is not true because what I know is that when the President was going to launch the iron sheets that time, the purchase of the Shs39 billion [supplementary budget] had not yet taken place. They were in the process and I think the minister [Kitutu] could have wanted that exercise to take place and that is why she [only] took 1,000 iron sheets [for the launch],\u201d Ms Nabbanja said during a meeting in her office.<\/p>\n

The Prime minister also claimed that what she received were iron sheets bought under a budget vote for affirmative action, rather than the Karamoja supplementary.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am an MP like any other. I got only 500 iron sheets for Kakumiro under our regular [budget] and distributed them to the vulnerable people [in my] area. So, the iron sheets did not come from Karamoja, I want that clear. If our servants made a mistake in the stores. That is not me,\u201d Ms Nabbanja said.<\/p>\n

Before she was dragged to court, Dr Kitutu last month pleaded that she was not given proper guidance by way of explanation for her allegedly criminal role in the affair.<\/p>\n

Background<\/b><\/p>\n

Parliament in December 2021, passed a Shs39 billion supplementary budget to support humanitarian and development initiatives in Karamoja.<\/p>\n

Of this, Shs22 billion was to buy goats, while Shs5 billion was for procuring 100,000 iron sheets. It has since been alleged that thousands of these iron sheets were diverted to unintended beneficiaries, mainly political leaders or relatives.<\/p>\n

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