UGANDA: Museveni panicky over potential impeachment for bribery by a Chinese

MUSEVENI PANICKY OVER POTENTIAL IMPEACHMENT FOR BRIBERY BY A CHINESE

CHANGE OF GUARDS - Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kutesa is Museveni's in-law.  He has been implicated by a USA court in a bribery scandal involving a Chinese construction company, CEFC.  He is alleged to have cordinated the procurement and delivery of USD 1M that he shared equally with Museveni.  Museveni and his gang are worried of the likely next move by the USA court and the FBI.

It is no longer an allegation but an established fact because investigations were concluded and the Chinese who gave the bribe was convicted.  Back in Uganda, both Museveni and Kutesa are in a tight corner as pressure from all corners mounts.  Out of panic, Museveni publicly stated that Kuteesa confessed before him that he had received the said money from the convicted Chinese.  In order to block fully fledged criminal investigations by the police, IGG, FIA or Parliament, Museveni hoodwinked Ugandans by tasking the Attorney General to investigate the allegation against Kutesa.

Two weeks later, the Attorney General informed Parliament that his investigations had found the allegation to be baseless.  With mounting pressure and more so the fear that the scandal could form the basis for Museveni's impeachment, he is now taking another gamble.

In late December, he organised "a concerned citizen" who petitioned court seeking to have Kutesa tried over these allegations.  His judiciary has now confirmed  that it has the capacity to prosecute Kutesa and warned against any influence peddling from interested parties.

His judiciary has appointed Justice Andrew Bashaija the head of the civil division of the high court to prosecute Kutesa.

The game plan is to use the subjudice rule (matter before court should not be discussed) to slap a ban on any discussion of the same matter by parliament, media, civil society, political activists and the general public.

Otherwise, if the Attorney General as the government chief legal advisor exonerated Kutesa of any wrong doing, why does court want to try him?  Why should he be tried by the Civil Division of the High Court as opposed to the Criminal Division since the matter is criminal in nature?  What about the Anti-corruption Court? The plan is to avoid criminal investigations that would involve different key players and even unearth more incriminating details.

This planned mock trial is a test for the gullibility of Ugandans, the international community and a shame to the cadre Chief Justice Bart Katurebe.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM