President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the return to office of Internal Affairs Permanent Secretary Lt Gen Joseph Musanyufu and Undersecretary Aggrey Wunyi after investigations reportedly cleared them of allegations that they had frustrated payments under the national CCTV maintenance project.
Highly placed sources said investigators found “no evidence that the two officials had demanded bribes or deliberately refused to pay Dealan Associates Limited,” the local firm contracted to maintain Uganda’s CCTV and command centre system.
Instead, the probe reportedly established that the contractor had not fully completed the contracted works and that ministry officials had raised concerns about releasing the entire payment before all deliverables had been met.
The findings mark a dramatic reversal from May, when Museveni sent Musanyufu and Wunyi on six months’ forced leave after receiving a report from Maj Gen Kahinda Otafiire alleging corruption in the management of the CCTV maintenance contract.
He was informed that the contractor had not been paid because ministry officials, through a middleman identified as Hassan, were demanding bribes.
That account, however, has now been challenged by the findings of the subsequent investigations.
Sources familiar with the probe said investigators established that the payment dispute stemmed from contractual and technical concerns rather than corruption.
The return of the two officials closes a turbulent chapter in the management of one of Uganda’s most important security projects.
The national CCTV network, installed following a spate of high-profile assassinations and urban crime incidents, comprises thousands of surveillance cameras linked to a central command centre and has become a key tool for crime detection, intelligence gathering and public security operations.
The project has cost the government hundreds of billions of shillings and remains one of the country’s largest security technology investments.
