Uganda Airlines commenced operations in 1977 and in 1998 MPs accused the then State Minister for Finance, Sam Kuteesa, of five counts of abuse of office and influence peddling.

The allegations related to the divestiture of the lucrative Entebbe Air Handling Services from the main bulk of the publicly-owned Uganda Airline Corporation. So the legislators used Article 118 of Uganda’s 1995 constitution to disgracefully censure Minister Sam Kutesa from parliament.

The airlines later collapsed after its cash cow “cargo and passenger handling enterprise,” a key income section of an airline business, was improperly taken up by a senior government official, Kutesa.

It is said that Sam Kutesa unscrupulously took over the most profitable arm of Uganda Airlines Corporation, where every Ugandan person had a stake, and not long the Uganda national airline had to collapse.

So to date no single police action has ever taken place against Minister Sam Kutesa. And this has made many people to wonder why police hunts for petty thieves and conmen and leaves out people like Sam Kutesa.