“If this practice (of politicians awarding themselves prizes in the form of money) continues unchecked, there is a likelihood that our nation’s coffers may be depleted,” the Judge warned. "It was a dereliction of duty for the Clerk to Parliament to have failed or neglected to detect such an obviously flawed process... as the paying officer he has all the powers to decline to make payment which is procedurally improper."
This standoff follows an internal memo written by Bakwega on October 14, to the Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah, seeking the inclusion of his name and that of Ranny Ismael, the Assistant Director in the Office of the Government Chief Whip to the Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
