State Minister for Privatization and Investment Hon Evelyn Anite has written to the Inspectorate of Government (IG) Irene Mulyagonja acknowledging that she travelled to Mauritius as part of the contingent of students on a three-month senior executive program- Africa run by Harvard Business School and the Harvard Business School and Gordon Institute of Business Science.
In a the letter dated August 19, Ms. Anite responds to claims tabled before the IG by a whistleblower in a petition titled “Influence Peddling, Abuse of Office and Fraud in Regard to Administration of UTL.”
“I have seen various media reports that a whistleblower petitioned your office stating among other frivolous things that I inappropriately travelled to Mauritius last month. First, I am not banned from travelling to any Country in the world. I wonder why this would be of interest to anyone.
For traveling to Mauritius and using government resources, Anite responded accepting to have traveled to Mauritius on August 4 as part of her education program with Harvard business class.
“I travelled to Mauritius from August 4th to 11 2019 as part of a contingent of students on a 3 months Senior Executive program — Africa, run by the Harvard Business School and Gordon Institute of Business Science. The first segment of the program is structured in a way that some class days are spent at the Harvard Campus in Cambridge Massachusetts and other segment of class days were conducted in Mauritius. The second round of the program will be conducted in Cambridge at the Harvard Business School Campus in November later this year.”
Anite mentions eminent Ugandans whom she had on the same course and travelled together.
They include: Mr. Edgar Byamah Managing Director of KCB Bank, Mr. Peter Mungoma Chief Executive Officer, Capital FM), Mr. Sant Mwogeza (Chief Finance Officer, Stanbic Bank) and Mr. Kevin Wingfield, a South African national who heads Retail and Commercial Banking, Stanbic Bank.
“My classmates can be contacted to attest and affirm to the foregoing,” she further informed the IGG.
She presents an air ticket bought by her from KLM as evidence which disputes the narrative that she booked the ticket from France.