President Museveni has directed the Inspectorate of Government to investigate Speaker Anita Among’s property in the United Kingdom, including a house she allegedly owns.
In a May, 2 letter to the Foreign Affairs Minister, Gen Jeje Odongo, Museveni she had been briefed by the British High Commissioner to UK Kate Airey about the said property by Among.
Museveni said the revelation was made to him a day before the sanctions were announced by the UK government.
“She told me that they were going to sanction Speaker Among. I said: ‘why?’. She said Anita Among has got a house or houses in UK and has got bank accounts from which she pays schools fees for her children who are studying there,” Museveni said.
“I told her that the issue of houses would be very interesting if, especially, Anita Among did not declare them in her Leadership Code documents.”
He said that he had asked the UK government to furnish him with more information about the said wealth owned by Among in the UK.
According to Museveni, the UK High Commissioner also informed him that Among has bank accounts in the UK from which she “pays school fees for her children studying there.”
The president was quick to question why the speaker would own property like a house abroad instead of investing back home.
“Why would a Ugandan leader build or buy houses in UK or anywhere else abroad, when Uganda, the still under-developed country where she would have earned the money, still needs those investments?”
“It would definitely be a moral and ideological mistake.”
Consequently, the president has asked the IGG and Minister for Integrity to investigate and inform him whether Among declared in her forms of the Leadership code, the said property in the UK.
Following the announcement of sanctions by the UK government, Among insisted he has no property abroad.
“I don’t have any properties in UK, not even a pussycat.Go ahead and freeze them, and see if I will complain,” she said.
