I have been condemned without facts – Amongi reacts to Parliamentary report NSSF
Amongi emphasized that it is her ministry that raised red flags which have led to investigations by IGG, Auditor General and parliament.
The Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Betty Amongi, has once again refuted allegations contained in the Report of the Select Committee on the State of Affairs at the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) implicating her in acts of mismanagement of the savers’ money.
While presenting her statement on the flow of parliament in response to the allegations, Amongi noted that she is being victimized yet she was the whistleblower who revealed the fraud in NSSF.
After reading the report and scrutinizing the annexes which were attached, especially on the Shs6 billion she demanded from the Fund, the minister said that she doesn’t have the power to budget and approve budgets from her Ministry.
“I have thoroughly read the report of the Committee on the Shs6 billion and scrutinized the annexes they have attached. I have concluded that I have been condemned without facts, evidence, and points of law,” she added.
She further explained that the money was to be used for the implementation, compliance, and enforcement of the NSSF Act as amended and, therefore, she wasn’t supposed to ask her husband Jimmy Akena for money to implement the law.
Amongi emphasized that it is her ministry that raised red flags which have led to investigations by IGG, Auditor General and parliament.
“I started supervising NSSF last year in February. All the issues in the report were done under the Ministry of Finance. Why didn’t the committee put any recommendation for the Ministry of Finance that was solely supervising the Fund before February last year?
It couldn’t have been my responsibility nor the responsibility of the ministry of gender to prevent the anomalies in NSSF when I and the ministry were not supervising the Fund at the time,”
After releasing the report on the fraud at NSSF at the beginning of this month, the Committee recommended the resignation of Amongi and NSSF ex-Managing Director Richard Byarugaba alongside his successor Patrick Ayota so that they are investigated with a view to possible prosecution for abuse of office, corruption and conspiracy to commit a felony.
