Ugandan Officials Admit Not Deserving Oil 'Golden Handshake'

 The six revenue authority staff have told the parliamentary committee investigating the controversial payout linked to defending the country's tax claims against British oil firms, that they did not "do anything special" outside their scope of duty to deserve part of the controversial money.

  • Uganda:   We Did Not Deserve Handshake - URA Staff

    Monitor, 9 February 2017

    Six officials from Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) who pocketed as much as Shs200m for defending Uganda's tax claims against British oil firms yesterday admitted that they did not… Read more »

Some of Uganda Revenue Authority Staff who were given the part of controversial Shs6 billion payments known as "the Golden handshake".

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