TRANSPARENCY: CoST Uganda Commissions 2nd Infrastructure Transparency Index
By SM News Investigative Reporter
The deal under probe by detectives is the shs2.5 billion that was due for the construction of the murky Speke Apartments located at Wampewo Avenue, and the extension of the Kabira Country Club, located in Bukoto, a leafy Kampala Suburb.
Sources close to this investigative newsite intimated to us that the UK based firm FBW, was advanced UGX 1 Billion towards the consultancy works for construction of Speke Apartments, and an additional UGX 1.4 billion for the consultancy of the extension works of the Kabira Country Club.
Though FWB signed the contract with Meera Enterprises in 2012, no works regarding the extension of Kabira County Club has commenced, seven years down the road.
Meera Investments is a real estate firm and construction company incorporated in Uganda in 1994, one of the chain of the under the Ruparelia Group of companies.
A GEF at Katwe Police station Vide Ref: GEF 131/2019 was seen by our reporters, as detectives dig deeper into what can best be described as fraud.
FBW is a UK design, architecture, and engineering-led, multi-disciplinary consultancy firm with operations in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda.
When contacted for a comment at their White Close Avenue offices in Muyenga, the authorities declined to comment, referring to their lawyers, who shunned our repeated calls.