Outgoing Kira Municipality Member of Parliament (MP) Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda has revealed that the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the one behind the shocking statement made by veteran journalist Andrew Mwenda citing a number of individuals using president Museveni to allegedly ‘loot’ from the country’s treasury.
Ssemujju, a longtime informed colleague to Mwenda said that he was not surprised by Mwenda’s statement revealing that officials in the Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development and those working with Uganda Development Bank (UDB) have also approached him complaining about the president’s frequent directives to give money to individuals who are using taxpayers money for their personal benefits.
“I understand Officials in the Ministry of Finance and their friends in UDB no longer hid under in the national budget to get trillions of money because Museveni directed them to give it direct to those individuals. They told me that one time, the President summoned them urgently and they were panicking but surprisingly, they found him with Dr Mathias Magoola, David Senfuka and Nelson Tugume and he directed them with immediate effect to release trillions of monies which they were asking from him,” Ssemujju said.
He further opined that it seems officials from the Ministry of Finance and UDB are the ones who approached Gen Muhoozi knowing very well that with the power and influence he as in government, he is the only person who can save the country from individuals who are misleading the President while collecting trillions of monies from the treasury.
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He added that Muhoozi is using Mwenda to send a message to those individuals that he has started the process of dealing with them as he did with Uganda Airlines which resulted into dismissing Jenifer Bamuturaki as the company Chief Executive Officer.
“I can confirm to you that the likes of Tugume, Magoola are panicking because they know that Muhoozi is going to arrest them as he has been doing to some UPDF Generals. Now they have started hiding money they received from Museveni in secret projects like fertilizers,” he said.
Through his alleged X handle, Gen Muhoozi said that time for jokes in Uganda is soon coming to an end, noting that him and other children of the great leaders including president Museveni will soon be in charge of the country and they cannot stand corruption and inefficiency!
He added that in the past two years, as the commander of the UPDF, he has saved more than Shs2tn from being stolen from the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs noting that in the next year, he will arrest all thieves who were going to steal public funds including foreigners.
In one of his weekly columns in his Independent online paper, Mwenda alleged that Senfuka through his State House dealers who are surround the president like a vultures do an animal carcass told the president that he wanted to build a factory that will manufacture medicine that cures cancer and diabetes.
Mwenda disclosed that Senfuka convinced the President that the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, had offered him $50bn to buy his patent, but he refused because he is a patriotic Ugandan that is why he ran to him to give him capital of $1bn to build a world-class pharmaceutical plant in Uganda to produce these cancer and diabetes drugs.
Mwenda, a celebrated journalist also claimed that Senfuka is not a businessman and people who know him told him that he is a conman who didn’t complete primary school but he has great wit and knows best how to sell stuff.
“He can even sell refrigerators to the Eskimos,” he said.
Ono Bwino has established that while on his sick bed, fallen Constitutional and Court of Appeal Judge Kenneth Kakuru cursed Senfuka for taking his money claiming that he was going to cure him cancer which he didn’t and was threatening to sue him. Kakuru died in 2023 from prostate cancer.
We have further established that Senfuka is a very rich and owns huge chunks of land around the country especially in Masaka. He recently he faced off with Dr. Sam Mayanja the State Minister for Lands when he was threatening to evict thousands of tenants from his land in Bukomansimbi district and the minister was trying to stop him.
Minister Mayanja ordered for Senfuka’s arrest but he was saved by his contacts in State House.
Senfuka later threatened to take legal action against the minister claiming that he was soiling his good name as an internationally recognised herbalist.
When contacted, Siraje Lubwama one of his henchmen confirmed the Museveni Senfuka meeting at State House. He boasted that his man is only helping Uganda by building his factory in the country because Musk is always on his phone compromising his to accept his deal so that he builds the factory in United States of America.
He further threatened that his boss has already instructed his capable lawyers to take legal action against both Ssemujju and Mwenda.
“I know Mwenda, I sent him a text message seeking a meeting with him to give him evidence but he didn’t respond. We know people using him to fight Dr Senfuka but he will explain more in Court,” Lubwama threatened.
Mwenda revealed that President Museveni bought Senfuka’s story and ordered the government to find $1bn for him to build his pharmaceutical plant in Uganda even though his financial experts warned him against throwing public money at the said scam.
Mwenda said even Matthias Magoola the proprietor of Dei Pharma is also pocketing a lot of money from the President claiming that his company is going to produce mRNA, cancer, malaria and HIV drugs in Uganda.
More than Shs735bn has been released to him and part of the money was supposed to clear a debt he owed Equity Bank worth Shs250bn but through the help of his lawyers and finance advisors, when the money was released by the Ministry of Finance to clear the loan, it was deposited on his fixed bank account to first accumulate interests for him according to highly placed sources.
Mwenda stated that Equity remained with a huge non-performing loan, which led to the firing of its Chief Executive Officer Athony Kituuka.
He claimed that Magoola is not an easy man, he was once arrested in India for fraud. He wondered how the President can trust him with public money worth Shs735bn.
He divulged that the President directed Ministry of Finance officials to give Shs1.6tn to Magoola to further invest in his Dei Pharma.
Mwenda also cited Tugume noting that government first released Shs400bn into his Inspire Africa Coffee Company which situated in Ntungamo district after convinced the President that the company is driving a major Ugandan initiative of transition coffee beans into high-value, branded, and roasted coffee products fit for the world market.
He added that recently, the President through cabinet approved another Shs300bn as extra cash for Tugume’s company.
However, Ssemujju said that a powerful member of the first family is behind Tugume and because of the sharp ongoing Museveni succession fight within his family, chances are high that Tugume will not survive Gen Muhoozi.
Another person is Somali tycoon Amina Hersi Moghe the proprietor of Atiak sugar company who Mwenda also cited in getting billions from the country’s treasury after misleading the President.
He stated that Amina was first given Shs560bn to produce sugar and she is still getting cash through supplementary budgets.
Ssemujju insists that there is a powerful first family member behind Amina.
Mwenda further cited another Shs200bn which the government pumped into Roko Construction Company after Mark Koehler the owner of the company told the President that the company was going bankrupt.
State House sources said that intelligence briefed the President that Mark has mismanaged his father’s company by using the company’s funds to finance his lavish life style.
But because Rainer Koehler, father to Mark helped Museveni during the 1981 liberation struggle, he decided the help his friend’s company not to collapse by using taxpayers’ money.
Even though the President has tried to save his friend’s construction company, the company is facing commercial law suits in trillions of shillings and those demanding it are planning to file an application in court to dissolve it on grounds that it has failed to pay its debts.
