The demands came barely a week after the New York Southern District Court jury convicted Ho, a former Hong Kong Minister, of eight counts of bribery and money laundering over oil rights for Chinese conglomerate CEFC China Energy, in Chad and Uganda.
In a statement issued this afternoon, the Finance Ministry Spokesperson, Jim Mugunga, says the officials were picked up in a Police operation at the Ministry headquarters this morning in relation to an ongoing investigation.
A Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier attached to 5th Division and two councillors at Lira Municipality have been arrested for allegedly extorting 1.7 million shillings from a municipal worker.
On Wednesday afternoon, the committee received information from Paul Kato, the officer in charge of investigations at parliament who was instructed to get recordings from the CCTV camera at Protea hotel from November 26th to 6th December.
Karuhanga accused Amama Mbabazi, the prime minister, Sam Kuteesa, Foreign Affairs minister and disaster preparedness minister Hilary Onek of bribery and influence peddling.
The deputy speaker of parliament, Jacob Oulanyah has directed the committee on rules privileges and discipline to investigate allegations of bribery leveled against the budget committee.
