{UAH} Pension probe: Our bosses told us to lie, Cairo ex-employees say
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Pension probe: Our bosses told us to lie, Cairo ex-employees say
Posted Friday, July 10 2015 at 08:07
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Explanation. The suspects claim they had no choice since they were following instructions from their bosses
Kampala.
Suspects in the Shs165 billion pension scam yesterday accused their bosses of coaching them to lie to the authorities, threatening them with prison if they told them the truth about Cairo International Bank's (CIB) role in the pension scam.
Although Mr Darwish Osama, CIB's managing director told Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) on Tuesday that the bank's former head of cash, Ms Rahman Nakigozi, misled the bank when she claimed all pensioners had walked into the bank and collected their money, the latter said together with her colleagues, they were called to Mr Osama's office and coached on what to say.
"Whatever we did, we were following orders from our bosses. What choice did we have other than following instructions from our boss, Mr Taliq Khadir and Mr Muhammad Tariq? We didn't know it was theft until CIID [Criminal Intelligence and Investigative Directorate] came to the bank," Ms Nakigozi said.
She said the bank environment was hostile to employees after the pension scam became public.
Mr Ishaq Ssentongo, the former CIB assistant manager operations, who was accused of conniving with Mr Peter Sajjabbi, the former secretary to the association of the former East African Community Beneficiaries Association, to open factitious accounts in the bank also implicated his bosses.
The two former bank employees were faulted after they admitted that they knew something wrong was going on but could not notify police and the Inspectorate of Government.
Mr Jimmy Lwamafa, the former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service, told the committee that he was "betrayed" by the officials he trusted and pinned the scam on the former Principal Accountant, Mr Christopher Obey, and the former Commissioner Pensions, Mr Kiwanuka Kunsa.
MPs also accused Mr Sajjabbi of fleecing his father's friends.
Mr Sajjabbi told the legislators that said he regrets helping his father's friends to open accounts, adding that "when I meet them, I hang my head in shame."
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