The public Accounts committee has handed over four officials from the ministry of finance to police CID attached to the committee for further interrogation into the alleged stealing of 14.8 billion shillings meant for the people of karamoja through the office of the prime minister under the PRDP for norhern uganda.
The four included Tonny Yawe ,Wilbert okello Brght Atwiine and Amon Takwenda who were first grilled by the committee and found out that they could lead to disclosure of persons who involved in a fraudulent scam in which 14.8 billion shillings was transferred from bank of Uganda Account using forged bank statement after being Authorized by officials from the ministry of finance.
Tonny Yawe and Wilbert Okello all IT officials in the ministry of finance are being suspected of defaulting the Application pass word for the computer which is used to authorize payment transfer.
Mps paul mwiru , Maxwell Akora, Henry musazsizi and Bihande said that yawe and Okello could have left the defaulted the application pass word and left the computer open for the scam to be effected by any one in their racket and cause government to lose 14.8 billion shillings.
Mps also quizzed Amon Takwenda who is in charge of collecting bank statements for the ministry of finance from bank of Uganda on how he collected the forged bank statement from bank of Uganda which caused the scam without reorganizing the person gave it to him.
However the senior Accountant in the ministry of finance who is also suspected to have involved in the scam Bright Atwiine told mps that the scam could have been coordinated by the IT officers in the ministry of finance and some individuals in bank of Uganda.
Ms Bright Atwiine who cried before the committee on her thinking that it’s a clique of staff within treasury in the ministry of finance who could have master minded the scam which has implicated her.
Mps however quizzed Ms bright Atwiine to why she did not carry out a due diligence before seeking for authorization for the transfer of 14.8 billion shillings.
