27 October 2009
Kampala — Three top Information and Communications Technology ministry officials were detained at parliament yesterday after failure to produce documents to account for funds allegedly owed to Chinese company Huawei Technologies Limited.
The officials were the ministry's permanent secretary Dr. Pat Samanya, Director Communications and Broadcasting Infrastructure Eng Dr. Godfrey Kibuuka and the project coordinator National Broadband Infrastructure and E-Government Infrastructure Mr. Simon Onyango.
The officials were detained after the MPs ICT committee chaired by Nathan Nabeta accused the officials of not telling "us the truth" concerning the repair works of the damaged optic fibre cables on Kampala-Jinja, Kampala- Entebbe and Kampala-Bombo roads.
ICT stakeholders have also sent in a petition to parliament seeking explanations on several ICT issues including appointments on the National IT Authority. But the petition has not yet featured in the issues brought before the ICT Ministry officials.
Huawei Technologies is the Chinese company laying Uganda's National ICT optic fibre Backbone. The project is worth US$106million and it was halted from proceeding into a second phase after Parliament pointed out poor workmanship in its first phase.
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