At least 30 Members of parliament including five from the opposition are currently under probe for allegedly embezzling over shs164 billion mean for compensation of cooperatives.
The Minister of State for Trade, Harriet Ntabaazi confirmed the development.
Ntabaazi told parliament’s trade committee that the Criminal Investigations Directorate is currently handling the investigations, adding that her ministry will continue executing its mandate amidst the probe.
“We aren’t scared, we shall undertake it because it is now beyond us, we are before the security investigatory organs of Government, let us battle out there and the law will have it all. That shouldn’t worry the Committee and that won’t stop Government from working, otherwise that would have stopped the Office of Prime Minister from working, where the iron sheets were. So I beg you that you cool down, those organs of government are doing their work,” said Ntabaazi.
