The Minister of Trade, Francis Mwebesa has threatened to sue the government citing that he has spent a lot of his personal money to fuel his official car.
Mwebesa says he was disappointed to find out that a very low-ranking officer at the Ministry has been using the fuel card attached to the minister and there was no intention for this junior officer to hand it back.
"I am almost taking Government to court because I have been spending my own money yet I have heard that some people have been taking millions. I want to ask the Government to pay me this money regardless of everything," said Mwebesa.
Mwebesa and his team were appearing before
In the same committee, it was revealed that
Recently, legislators sitting on the
The Ministry offices are located at
The Permanent Secretary in the
But according to Ssali, it was the State Minister for Industries
In a communication to the media, Ssali explained that the ministry received a supplementary budget of Shs 5 billion to procure new office space for the Ministry as the current office spaces were deemed dilapidated.
The ministry had initially justified that a further Shs 3 billion would be needed for partitioning and Shs 2 billion for furniture.
She said the team weighed all options and decided to renovate the current office space at a much lower cost than incurring recurrent costs on rent annually.
"The Ministry received clearance from the Solicitor General regarding the procurement method. If the funds were not used, they had to be returned to the
According to Ssali, the whole objective of the exercise was to save costs, considering that the government is currently undertaking a rationalisation of government agencies programme to save on costs like rent of government office space.
She refuted the allegations of fraud and diverting of resources.
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