THE British Government is to return £40,000 (sh120m) to Uganda, part of a bribe that Niels Jørgen Tobiasen, the Danish director of a nuclear company, paid to presidential adviser on science and technology, Ananias Tumukunde.

The UK Department for International Development (Dfid), in a statement issued on Thursday hailed the conviction of Tobiasen as a milestone in its fight against corruption in developing countries.

The Secretary of State for International Development, Douglas Alexander, said it was vital that the private sector flourishes in to drive poverty reduction programmes.

“Corruption not only hurts the poor (undermining the government and the public sector) but it also hurts honest business,” Alexander said.

Tobiasen, the Director of a UK nuclear, chemical, biological and radiological defence company in Salisbury was convicted for paying bribes to Tumukunde.

Dfid Anti-Corruption Unit in London prosecuted the case. Tobiasen, was convicted after he pleaded guilty.

Ian Day, operations director in a chemical weapons company told The Black Star News that Uganda was supplied “defence equipment” for protection and detection during CHOGM preparations.

“I train people in how to protect people against terrorist attacks in chemical and biological weapons,” Day said.



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