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The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (Pac) scouring through the report of the Auditor General on usage of some Shs400bn for the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government has so far ordered police to investigate two ministers and the chairman of the Broadcasting Council. Sheila Naturinda transcribed the probe. In our continued serialization of the probe into the abuse of the money Tourism Permanent Secretary Julius Onen endured a baptism of fire as MPs pushed him to explain fictitious expenditure of m  

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (Pac) scouring through the report of the Auditor General on usage of some Shs400bn for the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government has so far ordered police to investigate two ministers and the chairman of the Broadcasting Council. Daily Monitor will from today bring you verbatim excerpts of the proceeding. This week, several heads of government appeared before the committee, Ambassador James Mugume [Foreign Affairs] was grilled over advance payments to hotels s  

PARLIAMENT yesterday questioned six National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) officials over missing funds amounting to sh140m. NARO executive director Dennis Kyetere said the money was 'stolen' by the former cashier, Hilda Litta, from Kawanda Research Institute in the 2006/7 financial year. Litta died of pneumonia in 2007.  

THE parliamentary committee on public accounts has ordered prison authorities to stop hiring out inmates to work on people's farms. The committee, chaired by Rebecca Amuge (Lira), said it was illegal to subject prisoners to working on people's farms since the money from such activities was not recorded. Buvuma MP William Nsubuga said inmates were tortured when they went for such labour, in addition to making them work on Sundays and public holidays.