Eng. Dr. Ajedra Gabriel Gadison Aridru

The implicated minister in the irregular land allocation to investors has dismissed the findings by the members of parliament sitting on the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE), saying the findings were biased against him.

Eng. Dr. Ajedra Gabriel Gadison Aridru who is the minister of state for Investment says that the committee report has errors and omissions and misinformation. He says that he never employed his tribesman Basil Aja as Director Small and medium Enterprises dropping Charles Musana who had better qualifications than Aja. He says that Aja was approved by a penal and his name was brought to him after serious examination and added that Basil Aja is a son of Lango not west Nile as portrayed by the chairperson of COSASE while reading the committee report last week before parliament.

Ajedra says that he will not resign as demanded in the committee report because the committee’s report was based on misinterpretation of facts. He says that his ministry has reposed 540 acres of land from investors whom he termed as speculators who failed to redevelop the land within 18 months.

The minister was also pinned for allocation of  10 acres of land to Picfare and other companies which had  defaulted in paying for land. These companies included Tiang-Tang Group limited belonging to Chinese Nation which was allocated 2o Acres against the solicitor general’s advice; the minister paid a deaf ear to this advice. Tiang-Tang Group of Company wanted to set up a furniture company on the Namanve industrial Park, Wakiso District,also included is Alied graphic system which defaulted in paying for land in Namanve and had conflicts with Tiang-Tang over the 20 Acres but later it was allocated land in Luzira.