{UAH} NOW TRANSPARENCY INT'L IS LYING THAT "NO AWARD WAS GIVEN TO M7"

My fellow compatriots,

Aren't there pictures showing Transparency International Chairperson Delia Ferreira Rubio with a smile bolted endlessly to her jaws as she awards Museveni with an anti-corruption Award two weeks ago on 5th Dec 2018? Wasn't it even happening on the very day that a Chinese company's representative was found guilty in the US for giving Museveni and Kuteesa $500,000 dollars each as bribes in exchange for oil contracts?
Now the International anti-corruption organization is saying that "No awards were given".
They then simultaneously say that "the recognition was given by the local Transparency International-Uganda chapter to reflect Museveni's role in establishing the office of the Inspectorate of Government", and that "It was not an integrity award made to the President himself." They then add: "It should not be confused with Transparency International's global integrity awards made to individuals or organisations for their role in exposing and prosecuting corruption." They then conclude by saying:"We acknowledge that recognizing Museveni in this way has sent an unintentional message to the public and the international community, and state categorically that in no way was it intended to condone the sad anti-corruption track record of the Ugandan Government where there are serious questions about the government's political will to address corruption."
Now this whole saga is typical of people using institutions and noble events for their own ulterior motives.
Yesterday the Ugandan Parliament held a questionable hearing on this very corruption case for which the award was questioned.
I want to call on those people in parliament to at least show competence in ensuring the rule of law in this country, and not just appear to be ensuring the rule of law. Because they are increasingly turning the legislature and its committee's into a crime laundering tool rather than a genuine good governance oversight institution.
Is it because everyone in Uganda is cowering when a case of corruption involves Museveni himself as a suspect?
First of all, the Chinese businessman has already been found guilty of giving Mr. Kuteesa and Museveni two separate bribes in exchange for oil contracts. Therefore following the rules of legal precedence, the accused are already guilty of receiving the bribes.
What is required is prosecution in court here in Uganda based on that US ruling. The documentation and proceedings are all available publicly and I am sure the US Department of Justice would be glad to cooperate with any Ugandan investigation and case on the same matter.
But why is parliament first summoning the Attorney General, of all public servants, to answer on any validity or not of charges being filed in Uganda against the suspect? The AG is not a neutral party, nor an investigating authority. He is actually the lawyer of government, therefore the lawyer of the accused minister. Naturally his job is to defend Kuteesa, isn't it?
So summoning him about the corruption investigation is an oxymoron in broad daylight.
Since when does a lawyer investigate his own client and then also pronounces the final judgement on his client, and does so in parliament which he has turned into the de-facto court instead of the real one, and where he the lawyer has made himself as its presiding judge?
Ruling on ones innocence or guilt is actually the mandated duty of a court of law. And the judge only pronounces judgement after the suspect has been tried and prosecuted. That prosecution is based on police investigations. Not the Attorney General's loyalist feelings.
Where are the police summons to the suspect? Where is the suspect's statement to police investigators? When did the suspect actually go to record that statement? Who was the investigating CID officer who interviewed the suspect and recorded his statement?
Those are the basic questions as per standard procedure in all criminal investigations.
Isn't it the police and the Directorate of Public Prosecution that are mandated to investigate this case, and if sufficient evidence has been collected, they then prosecute the suspect in court while the AG also defends him in the same court, and then a judge actually gives the final ruling?
So the Attorney Generals appearance yesterday before the committee was therefore actually misplaced. His claim that his investigations show that the accused has committed no crime is just an utterance that is actually null and void in regards to declaring the guilt or innocence of the accused.
In fact the Attorney General's entire appearance in parliament yesterday was in error.
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Find here my recent condemnation of Transparency International following their now botched anti-corruption award to Museveni: theinsider.ug/index.php/2018/12/12/opinion-uganda-and-the-oil-curse-thats-already-started/

And here is the new Transparency International press release saying "No Award was given": transparency.org/news/pressrelease/statement_on_recognition_of_president_h.e._yoweri_museveni

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