The NRM ruling party says that a number of the party’s district administrative secretaries are being investigated over allegedly swindling of money meant for flag bearers.
The party’s director for communication, Emmanuel Dombo Lumala says a number of officials have been arrested and others are still on the run and police are hunting them.
“We are doing this to show transparency in our party primaries elections,”he said.
According to Dombo, the party funded 19 candidates at every village to participate in the youth, older persons and people with disabilities elections. The party sponsored over 1,306,060 candidates at a cost of over UGX6.5b in 68,740 villages.
Dombo explains that those arrested include Buikwe administrative secretary Nankya Sudah Ssentamu who was arrested by police in Buikwe on Wednesday last week and released on police bond after she allegedly paid shs10m out of shs20.5m that was allegedly missing.
Dombo says some party officials are in areas of Luwero, Busoga sub region to investigate more complaints.
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