{"id":33110,"date":"2018-02-08T05:15:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=33110"},"modified":"2018-02-08T05:25:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T05:25:48","slug":"speaker-orders-forensic-audit-into-sh700bn-pta-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/speaker-orders-forensic-audit-into-sh700bn-pta-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker orders forensic audit into Sh700bn PTA loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Moses Kyeyune<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The storm is not over yet for Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca\u00a0Kadaga has directed the Auditor General\u00a0to carry out a forensics\u00a0audit into the Sh 720 billion loan from PTA Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The money, acquired in 2016 was meant to aid procurement of medical supplies for the National Medical\u00a0Stores, purchase of earth moving machines from China through the Ministry of works, and support for the Rural Electrification projects, but it was never used for its purpose according to the findings\u00a0of the Public Accounts Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker&#8217;s directive suspends the debate on the report, awaiting for the Auditor General&#8217;s Findings.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Accounts Committee report recommended the\u00a0sacking of Kasaija and the Secretary to the\u00a0Treasury\u00a0Keith\u00a0Muhakanizi, for alleged collusion and\u00a0abuse of office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moses Kyeyune The storm is not over yet for Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija. The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca\u00a0Kadaga has directed the Auditor General\u00a0to carry out a forensics\u00a0audit into the Sh 720 billion loan from PTA Bank. The money, acquired in 2016 was meant to aid procurement of medical supplies for the National Medical\u00a0Stores, purchase of earth moving machines from China through the Ministry of works, and support for the Rural Electrification projects, but it was never used for its purpose according to the findings\u00a0of the Public Accounts Committee. The Speaker&#8217;s directive suspends the debate on the report, awaiting for the Auditor General&#8217;s Findings. The Public Accounts Committee report recommended the\u00a0sacking of Kasaija and the Secretary to the\u00a0Treasury\u00a0Keith\u00a0Muhakanizi, for alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}