It has emerged that Grace Akullo, the head of the Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Directorate (CIID), is expected to face officials from the police's Professional Standards Unit (PSU).
According to police sources, PSU investigators will ask Akullo to clarify her eyebrow-raising revelations last week that the Shs 169 billion pension scam case collapsed in court because money changed hands.
Though she is not accused of any wrongdoing, sources in the police told The Observer last week that she will have to expound on her claims that some suspects in the scam admitted to channeling bribes through two detectives in an attempt to get her to kill the pension scam investigation.
Speaking to Daily Monitor last week, Akullo named two CIID officers as the bribe takers and conduits. The duo reportedly authored another report exonerating the key suspects in the ministry of Public Service where the scam was orchestrated.
Akullo also revealed that during a meeting she had with two suspects in her office, they (suspects) claimed they gave her officers Shs 100m to take to her and $350,000 to an unnamed journalist to buy her a house.
It is these kinds of revelations that the PSU will be seeking more clarification on.
"She claimed that she met some of the suspects in her office who admitted attempting to bribe her. Did she record the conversation?" said the source, trying to explain why Akullo needs to clarify
But a knowledgeable source said according to standard police procedure, Akullo will be required to write to the Professional Standards Unit pinning the officers she named in the media interview. Under the law, bribing or attempting to bribe a police officer is a criminal offence. Read more
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