Magellan Luboyera, Nyendo-Mukungwe Division Town Clerk, reported her to the police following an internal audit that revealed widespread corruption in the City Building Review Committee office.
Alice Nnanungi, the former Masaka City Council Building Review
Committee Chairperson is in trouble for her alleged involvement in corruption
tendencies.
Nnanungi is wanted by the Police to answer criminal charges of; impersonation,
forgery, obtaining money by false pretence, and causing financial loss to the government.
Magellan Luboyera, Nyendo-Mukungwe Division Town Clerk, reported her to the police following an internal audit that revealed widespread corruption in the City Building Review Committee office.
Nnannungi, the female City Councillor representing the Nyendo-Mukungwe division, was sworn in as the first Chairperson of the City Building Review Committee in 2023. The committee is responsible for guiding proper urban infrastructure development and issuing occupational permits for buildings.
She ascended to the Building
Review Committee office primarily in her capacity as Secretary for the Works and Technical
Planning sectoral committee.
However, Luboyera indicates
that the internal audit has revealed that her operations were riddled with grave corruption
scandals she got involved in for self-aggrandizement, hence causing huge losses
to the city council and the developers.
She is accused of extorting
money from developers in the pretext of approving their building plans, before issuing
forged receipts to people who pay the statutory fees.
Luboyera indicates that
although the Council had in April last year passed a vote of no confidence against due
to similar reports of corruption, she continued to secretly reach out to different
developers and extort them of huge sums of money.
According to him, his office has received numerous reports from whistleblowers and complaints from victims, which prompted him to sanction a special audit of the operations of the building review committee.
He indicates the auditors
summoned Nnannungi to respond to the complaints but she remains indifferent, which has
prompted him to engage police to take on the matter for eventual prosecution.
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Luboyera explains that
the audit indicates that Nnanungi has been operating with a clique of both political
and technical staff in the Physical Planning department, to falsify structural
development plans, hence disrupting local revenue collection.
According to him, the
City has been suffering recurrent local revenue collection shortfalls despite registering growth in revenue sources.
Besides Nnanungi, he reveals
that he is going to hand in the audit findings to the Police to broaden the investigations
into the corruption syndicates in the city.
Twaha Kasirye, the
Greater Masaka Regional Police Spokesperson confirms that they registered
complaints against Nnanungi, who is however yet to respond to police summons that
invited her to record statements.
He says she has now been
given up until Thursday to report to the police or else, she will pursued and
arrested.
Her known
phone lines remain switched off.
Notably, the audit comes
at a time when Nnanungi and former Masaka City Council Speaker Tonny Ssempijja
are in Masaka Chief Magistrates Court facing charges of forging council minutes
and impersonation; in suits initiated by the City Council.
