Nearly a dozen more ministers and several Members of Parliament (MPs) named on an iron sheet distribution list signed by Karamoja Affairs Minister Goretti Kitutu have said they never received the roofing materials.

Internal Affairs Minister, Maj Gen Kahinda Otafiire, the political overseer of police that is co-investigating anomalies in handling of Karamoja relief, says any person claiming he got iron sheets must be “sick in the head”.

Otafire says he has never seen the iron sheets, adding that may be someone wanted him to be a comrade-in-crime.

The Bush war veteran signaled that police will investigate the authenticity and author of the document on which he is listed under the title “distribution of iron sheets to ministers: list 2”.

According to Maj Gen Otafiire, naming him and dozens of other political leaders establishes the criminal mind of the mastermind. 

In an October 13, 2022 internal memo to the under-secretary, Karamoja Affairs minister Kitutu named 12 senior and junior ministers and 16 MPs from the sub-region including their chair Remigio Achia as beneficiaries of the roofing materials.

Also on the list are 23 legislators from Bugisu sub-region, among them, Nandala Mafabi and Opposition Chief Whip John Baptist Nambeshe but Mafabi dismissed the claims as made-up.

According to some of the lawmakers representing Karamoja constituencies, listing them as designated iron sheets recipients when they have led the assault to unearth the truth, including demanding that Kitutu and junior Agnes Nanduttu resign, was improper.