Highly placed sources at police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have revealed that orders were issued to detectives to resurrect criminal files implicating suspended Lubaga Division Deputy Resident City Commission (RCC) Herbert Anderson Burora in the multibillion fraud scandal.
Hajji Yunus Kakande the Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President confirmed that Burora was suspended and he is going to be subjected to further investigations on allegation of attacking the person of Annet Anita Among the Speaker of parliament.
Borora was among the many Ugandans who condemned the alleged corruption and mismanagement of taxpayers’ money at parliament.
Using his x handle, Borora compared Among’s alleged extravagancies to France’s flamboyant Queen Maria Antoinette.
Kakande said that when Borora started attacking Among on social media, he was summoned by his bosses and cautioned but he continued hence his suspension.
On Monday, Borora handed over Office boasting that he will continue fighting corruption in the country. He promised to brief the media on his next move on Thursday 21st March, 2024.
“Today, I handed over The Office of the Deputy Resident City Commissioner in Lubaga Division. Five years and five months of my Service are worth bowing out honorably. It’s not about the office/Job as Madam Anita thought, It’s about the Service. I had all the options to choose the Job or to remain true to my conscience. I chose the latter. In my tour of duty, there are those that I didn’t satisfy for one reason or the other, but majorly, I served the way I was supposed to do,” he said.
A furious Burora added, “I may not be able to measure my legacy, as a representative of the President, but I’m sure there is not a single day that I didn’t represent him to the best of my knowledge” confident speaking Borora said. He was also quoted earlier “My suspension emanated from my criticism of the Speaker’s expenditures and the affairs of @Parliament_Ug. How can a local radio station be allocated billions of shillings when UBC TV, a national television, is struggling financially? I would rather lose a job than bend low to corrupt officials in a country where corruption is becoming a new normal.”
However, Kakande insisted that Burora abused his office because public servants like him have rules and procedures they have to follow when communicating on issues that involve their superiors, that is why it was wrong for Burora to attack a full Speaker of parliament who is number three in the country’s leadership rank on social media.
Burora recently officially married his beautiful wife is facing a high hill to climb because of the number of enemies he has including those in the opposition led by Kampala Lord Mayor Ssalongo Erias Lukwago who wants him to be imprisoned on allegations of fraud.
Highly placed sources at CID told theGrapevine that detectives are currently studying the criminal allegations on pending files opened against Burora since he was still Nakawa Division Deputy RCC.
Source disclosed that among the allegation against Burora is that he sold a piece of land meant for KCCA Youths a long Success Motors Ltd, opposite Pepsi Cola along Nakawa Jinja Road at Shs1bn.
Detectives are also studying a criminal file where Burora is alleged to have been involved in a land scandal where he attempted to evict youths who are dealing in flowers from their land around Wankonko in Bugolobi after promising to sell it to one of the tycoons in Kampala.
Burora was also dragged in the fraudulent land transaction in Mutungo zone 4 Nakawa Division and was later forced to compensate the owners of the land.
Lukwago is also spearheading the fight against him to make sure that he is jailed. He accuses him of fueling divisions in Kampala city by creating parallel cliques against his boss the Resident City Commissioner (RCC) Amina Lukanga and sabotaging government programs.
He is also being accused of sabotaging government programmes like when he suspended the Parish Development Model (PDM) operations insisting that KCCA officials included ineligible people.
Burora’s enemies also accuse him of halting the operations of National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) and the Community Driven Development, citing ghost beneficiaries.
However Burora looked determined today to fight back and threatened to expose opposition leaders who are in Among’s pockets.
He gave Lord Mayor Lukwago up to Tuesday to explain himself on the multi million deal he sealed with Among.
“You have up to Tuesday to declare your Affiliation with Anitah Among. Short of that, we shall be forced to declare you as an affiliate in her ongoing subversive activities. It’s high time we weed out all corruption weeds,” Burora stated
By Sengooba Alirabaki
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