{UAH} Kadaga Fires Top Aides after Shocking Revelation of Blowing Shs 2.8Bn On Travels Abroad

The speaker of Parliament Rt Hon Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has fired two of her very close aides from office on allegations of leaking office confidential documents and spying on her.

The victims include Andrew Waiswa her Personal Assistant and a one Derrick Lubaale also her office assistant.

Lubaale and Waiswa now jobless were shown exit last week over reports that they were allegedly spying the speaker on behalf of the First Lady Janet Museveni an allegation this website could not independently verify.

The angry Kadaga further made some changes inside her office where a one James Musobo her senior personal assistant was transferred to the administration department as an administrator as she continues to watch over him as a suspect.

The sackings also follow others including the one of Kamaali Sibira David, principal personal assistant who was shown exit last year on allegations of being close to some members of the first family and working with Uganda's spy agency ISO.

Others sacked last year include senior personal assistants; Daniel Kizito, Edwin Basoga and Sophia Mpawuwe, Col Bamuloze, SSP Obela, SP kyesimira, Abby Kisozi, Ngobi Moses, Nyiiro moses, Mukobi Patrick, Ruth Mutesi among others.

According to a source at Kadaga's office, the last week's sackings followed the leaking of confidential documents from the speaker's office.

When contacted, Sam Obbo, the Principle Press Secretary to Speaker Kadaga told this website that he had no comment.

The CapitalTimes an online news site last week wrote that Rt Hon Rebecca Kadaga had spent shs 2.8bn on foreign travels in less than 2 years.

It is indicated that since taking office as Deputy Speaker of Parliament way back in 2001 (20 years ago in May 2021), Rt. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga created one of the most secretive but powerful political hegemony within the NRM environs in modern Uganda's Political history.

THE TRAVEL BONANZA

During the above mentioned 16 or so months, the Speaker of Parliament along with her extremely close confidant, Hon. Elijah Okupa the Member of Parliament representing Kasilo County, Serere District, racked up a combined 986 days in travels While operations in the 9^th and 10^th parliament remain obscure as was witnessed in the media about the contested recruitment of the Chief Internal Auditor alas a story for another day, a risk Parliament would not afford to take since hiring an externally recruited official not accustomed to the accounting anomalies would lead to the discovery of the creativity that has been ongoing and such huge and unexplained travel expenses would have drawn attention from the watchful eye of the expert.

Part of Kadaga's travel expense in part

An analysis of the information obtained indicates that, in less than 16 months from 2017 – 2019, Hon. Elijah Okupa was on the plane 21 times while Rt. Hon. Kadaga made 20 flights under the guise of CPA Executive Committee meetings.

Not only were they accumulating flight hours in the process but also receiving huge per diems from the tax payers' money without any accountability. Documents got indicate that in one trip for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) retreat in Tanzania, Hon. Okupa was paid 24 Million after spending there 14 days while Hon. Kadaga received 22 Million for spending 6 days at the retreat.

Our investigative team was able to contact the CPA Headquarters Secretariat (www.cpahq.org) at Richmond House, London and they noted that "CPA has always paid for travel costs for the normal activities organized by member states, however, Executive Committee (ExCo) attending ExCo meetings have always been paid travel by the association while the host country would pay the accommodation and per diem to the visiting teams. For the branch meetings, the association pays for all the expenses." This begs the question on whether the money that has been always reimbursed by the CPA to these parliamentary members has been reflected on the Parliamentary Commission accounts or creative accounting practices are being used like how the IGG recently discovered in recent audits.

Part of shocking evidence confirming Hon Elijah's travels and huge expenses

Further scrutiny of the annual reports from CPA Headquarters indicate that a "total of £223,686 [and]£304,048 was reimbursed to the 34 parliaments as of [2018 and 2019 respectively] for the travel and accommodation of the ExCom members".

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