IGG probes police director over sh10b chopper repair

The IGG is in shock as she digs into police corruption. Somebody is likely to suffer a heart attack. The IGG has launched an investigation into police Director of Logistics Godfrey Bangirana, who quoted  Ugx10b for repair of a police chopper, yet a brand-new chopper from the same manufacturer costs Ugx3.3b.

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. However, this is not the first time he is summoned by the IGG.

Also issues of interest in the IGG will be the procurement processes, where police has accumulated a debt of over Sh100b it owes to different service providers.

Two years ago, 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.

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#