The Arua City Physical Planner Mr Findru Moses has on Monday afternoon 2pm 6-Nov-2023 been arrested by police and State House Anti-corruption Unit officers on orders of State Minister for Economic monitoring Hon Akello Beatrice over his alleged decision to issue a development permit to a telecom company called American Construction Towers (ACT) Ltd to construct a telecom mast behind Arua Public library in Hospital cell, on a land that is said to be belonging to Uganda Land Commission.
The State Minister for Economic monitoring Hon Akello Beatrice who tasked the concerned relevant authorities to respond to issues raised in construction of the mast, contrary to the decision of the City council and also City Physical planning board, ended up directing the arrest of the head of Arua City physical planning board Mr Moses Findru.
Arua City Mayor Hon Sam Nyakua Wadri says, the workers of the telecom company who are constructing the Antenna, undermined everyone and the entire city authority by saying, they gave orders from above to construct it.
While pinning the outgone Resident City Commissioner Mrs Akello Alice who presided over the meeting for installation of that project, the central division Arua City MP Hon Lee Jackson Atima says, the meeting to give go ahead for construction of the telecom mast was done on a Saturday despite the two Mayors (Central Division Mayor Hon Muzaid Khemis and Arua City Mayor Hon Wadri Sam Nyakua) objecting to it.
Mr Cornelius Jobile the deputy City clerk for Arua City affirmed that, the senior physical planner Mr Findru Moses went ahead to issue the telecom company a development permit when even the Physical Planning Board which he (Mr Jobile) chairs has never had a meeting over the matter.
He explained that, a development permit is supposed to be issued after NEMA report on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of which it wasn't done but the City planner decided to issue the permit.
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Could it be state Minister or statement Minister?
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