Finance Ministry Official Arrested After Contradicting Earlier Testimony on Digital Number Plates

A Ministry of Finance official, Moses Bekabye, has reportedly been arrested by Parliament’s CID after contradicting testimony he gave last week regarding the digital number plate project.

Bekabye had told Parliament under oath that officials travelled to China, Russia and India to benchmark pricing for Uganda’s digital number plates.

However, appearing before the Committee on Physical Infrastructure today, he reportedly admitted that the officials never travelled to the three countries.

The contradiction has raised questions about the information earlier presented to Parliament as it investigates the cost, implementation and financing of the digital number plate project.

Parliament has been scrutinising the project amid concerns over the Shs714,000 cost of the plates, delays in issuance, production capacity and the contractual arrangement with the Russian firm Global Security.

The committee is expected to continue questioning officials as it prepares its findings on the project.

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