Former NFA lawyer Molly Karuhanga has named three senior personalities in the controversial award US$1.9m to a local company Beachside Development Ltd.

Appearing before the public accounts committee (Pac) chaired by Maxwell Akora (Maruzi), Karuhanga who even shed tears before the committee as she tried to defend herself on the controversial payment named west budama MP Fox Odoi, judge Ralph Ocan (Masindi resident judge) and Charles Twagira.

The committee had to adjourn several times as Karuhanga wept in a testimony she gave to the committee where she denied having signed a consent judgment in which the court award to the company was done.

Molly together with bosses of NFA led by acting executive director Onyango had appeared before Pac to explain circumstances under which a local company Beachside Development Ltd ‘conned’ NFA of US$1.9m (close to shs5bn) in compensation of a botched forest deal in Entebbe.

The committee heard that this company owned by MP Fox Odoi, Judge Ralph Ocan and Charles Twagira took NFA to court accusing it of breach of contract and demanded for US$8.6m for damages from NFA after it cancelled the deal.

This company it emerged through Twagira in September 2005 approached NFA seeking for a 50-year lease offer to manage and also set up an eco-tourism center (beach) on the 209 hectare forest located at Kwewaga-Entebbe.

However, after several correspondences and dealings relating to this transaction between NFA and the company, NFA terminated the project and it was dragged to court.

The committee however, discovered that much as Twagira Charles in his own capacity is the one who approached NFA in September 2005 seeking for this deal, when time for compensation came, the Beachside showed up.

The committee is continuing to investigate the matter.

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