Minister’s mother, brother, arrested over selling Karamoja relief items

 

Minister’s mother, brother, arrested over selling Karamoja relief items

 

Three family members of Minister Goretti Kitutu, the Minister for Karamoja affairs were on Sunday arrested for allegedly selling relief items meant for people in Karamoja.

 

According to a highly placed source, those arrested include the minister’s mother, a brother and a nephew who were found in possession of government-owned iron sheets that were meant to be given to residents in Karamoja as relief items.

 

The source intimated that an operation masterminded by Internal Security Organisation (ISO), the Police and the State House Anti-Corruption Unit found exhibits of the items at the family’s home before arresting the trio.

 

It is said that on arresting the family members, Minister Kitutu made frantic calls to plead for the mother urging that she should be pardoned due to her frail condition and old age.

 

However, a statement by the Office of the Prime Minister has condemned the acts of the Minister and her family members if found indeed true and urged that necessary investigations shall be carried out and action is taken.

 

 

 

A Ugandan is among the dead bodies recovered, almost a week later after the deadly earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria in nearly a century.

 

A statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released on Monday indicated that Florence Babirye’s body was recovered from the rubble of the building where she stayed.

 

The deceased lived in Hatay Province where BBC last week reported that rescue efforts had in some places been disrupted due to clashes between unnamed groups.

 

German rescuers and the Austrian army are said to have paused the search operations in the area and this could have exacerbated the situation as hopes of finding more survivors continued to fade.