Nicholas Kamukama, the Deputy RDC of Kiruhura Dsitrict was Friday arrested by State House Anti-Corruption Unit for allegedly receiving shs 3 million bribe to allow money lenders operate in the area.
Reports claim Kamukama halted Polycarp Kivuna and Hebert Bwayiga from conducting business in Kiruhura until they agreed to give him kitu kidogo (bribe).
“But the money lenders had lent some people in Kiruhura money and wanted to recover it,” reports indicate.
The money lenders after agreed to wet Kamukama’s beak with shs 10 million which he would receive in installments.
“The Shs 3 million he was arrested receiving was part of the first instalment of the Shs 10 million total bribe to show our commitment,” said Bwayiga, a money lender who had filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit.
The money lenders claim that Kamukama had blocked over 200 clients of theirs from paying them back money and had instructed security to chase them out of the district.
“These people owe us about Shs 200 million, but Kamukama asked them not to pay back this money until we clear his bribe,” another businessman Kivuna told an online publication Nile post.
But Kamukama rubbished off the claims.
He was arrested from Agip Motel in Mbarara as he waited for a mediator Kossia Akangumaho to deliver his loot.
Anti-Corruption Unit is headed by Maj. Edith Nakalema, President Yoweri Museveni’s former PPS
