{"id":5406,"date":"2022-04-08T14:22:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=5406"},"modified":"2022-04-08T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:22:30","slug":"president-museveni-suspends-uganda-land-commission-chairperson-beatrice-byenkya-and-other-top-officials-directs-igg-to-investigate-them-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/president-museveni-suspends-uganda-land-commission-chairperson-beatrice-byenkya-and-other-top-officials-directs-igg-to-investigate-them-for-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT MUSEVENI SUSPENDS UGANDA LAND COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON BEATRICE BYENKYA AND OTHER TOP OFFICIALS ,DIRECTS IGG TO INVESTIGATE THEM FOR CORRUPTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Yoweri Museveni has ordered for the suspension of Uganda Land Commission (ULC)  top officials including Chairperson Beatrice Byenkya  and  directed the  Inspector General of Government Beti Kamya and Gen. Henry Isoke of the State House Anti-Corruption Unit to immediately investigate them for alleged corruption and abuse of office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier the police CID had written a detailed report implicating the suspended officials in various malpractices .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Museveni in his  communication  to the Lands Minister Judith Nabakooba has ordered for prosecution of ULC Chairperson Beatrice Byenkya and Secretary Ms. Barbarah Imaryo over allegations of gross corruption, embezzlement, double payments, payment of ghost workers among other criminal acts\u2014all leading to loss of government funds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI hereby suspended them with immediate effect to pave way for investigations. By copy of this latter, I\u2019m directing the Inspector General of Government and the State House Anti-Corruption Unit to investigate the above allegations and any other offences that could have been committed with a view of prosecuting the culprits,\u201d the President wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" data-attachment-id=\"5407\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/president-museveni-suspends-uganda-land-commission-chairperson-beatrice-byenkya-and-other-top-officials-directs-igg-to-investigate-them-for-corruption\/let\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/let.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"540,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"let\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/let.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/let.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/let.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/let.jpg 540w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/let.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoweri Museveni has ordered for the suspension of Uganda Land Commission (ULC) top officials including Chairperson Beatrice Byenkya and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bea-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4938,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/embattled-uganda-land-commission-chairperson-beatrice-byenkya-nyakaisiki-charged-for-abuse-of-office-granted-bail-by-anti-corruption-court\/","url_meta":{"origin":5406,"position":0},"title":"EMBATTLED UGANDA LAND COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON BEATRICE BYENKYA NYAKAISIKI CHARGED FOR ABUSE OF OFFICE GRANTED BAIL BY ANTI CORRUPTION COURT","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"January 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The embattled\u00a0 Uganda Land Commission Chairperson Beatrice Byenkya Nyakaisiki has been arraigned in the Kampala Anti-Corruption Court on charges of \u00a0obstruction of search and abuse of office. 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