Billions embezzled in Uganda Police Force IGG summons Godfrey Bangirana

The head of the Uganda Police Force’s Logistics and Engineering Department Godfrey Bangirana is due to face the Inspectorate of Government to explain the exorbitant cost at which a junk helicopter was repaired at a cost of sh 10bn.

Also issues of interest by the IGG will be the procurement processes where police has now accumulated a debt of over Shs. 100bn it owes to different service providers.

“He has superintended over gross procurement flaws that have not only affected the police force but also the various suppliers who have various contracts with the force,” a letter addressed to the IGG and dated 25th,August, 2018 reads.

“He endorses for payment only to friendly companies or individuals. He is the man behind the fuel scam where he paid billions of shillings to Petrol Companies and had his proxies fetch police fuel but also sometimes going through back doors to pick physical cash from the fuel stations,” the IGG letter sent by a concerned citizen reads.

The letter complained of that most annoying recently he left out many supplier companies and individuals who demand billions of shillings from the police and decided to selectively approve payment of the sister of a senior military General (names withheld).This lady is identified as Karen Kayinza.

This year, police launched an old chopper at Kajansi at a cost of  sh 10bn a figure which was highly contested. The repair of that helicopter brought to four the number of helicopters belonging to the police force after the 2015 purchase of two helicopters.

Police is in the process of procuring two more helicopters.

Godfrey Bangirana is also challenged to explain how police lost billions of shillings of money to the public who were endorsed to consume police fuel for their private activities yet in some circumstances, police patrol vehicles did not have fuel.

By 2015,  police had accumulated a debt to a tune of sh 125 billion since 2015 services providers had never been paid. He is tasked with overseeing police Fleet, fuel, procurement, supply food and more.

Supplies to the force including weapons. There are also questions of at least 4000 guns that are said to have illegally ended at Kabalye Uganda Police training school.

Justice Julia Ssebutinde in a Police Probe, pointed fingers at him and the concerned citizen who wrote to the IGG wants all this revisited.

“I think it is important you investigate the selective payment methods. You may also need to take a keen interest in the wealth accumulated by Godfrey Bangirana. Has he declared it? Can he account for such wealth?” the IGG letter questioned. His directorate is considered the most corrupt in the police force.

Questions about the cost of the construction of Nateete Police Station are also being raised where no official cost was pegged to the works but knowledgeable sources say it was billed at sh 100bn a cost which is highly contested.

Points of investigations • Cost of Nateete police Station. • Selective payments of suppliers • Cost of refurbishing police chopper • Bangirana’s source of wealth • Revisiting the Justice Julie Ssebitinde findings • Why Police fuel ended to individuals. #dronemedia#

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