Kampala, (UG):- A Ugandan envoy to United Kingdom, one of the top most leaders at the country’s mission in London has returned to Kampala following his expulsion from the British nation over gross human trafficking claims.
The envoy, whose name DailyExpress preferred to withhold for sensitivity purposes is accused of involving in a strong of human trafficking activities under the guise of diplomatic privileges, smuggling Ugandan women into the UK under the pretext of hiring domestic workers.
“British authorities uncovered that these women were later exploited and sold into domestic servitude, with [the envoy] profiting from their labour,” a source exclusively told this publication.
DailyExpress understands that the UK intelligence reportedly kept tabs on the envoy for months after murmurs of the allegations erupted with one of the women who was trafficked escaping and exposing fraudulent work papers.
A source close to the accused envoy who labeled the allegations as ‘cooked stories’ said they were constrained by Public Service Orders to engage in the media without approval from the Permanent Secretary.
“I can only mention that whatever information you got seems concocted and full of falsehoods,” a source close to the envoy said.
The envoy seperately told a third party inquiring about the same that the domestic worker at the heart of the trouble was attempting to remain in the UK by trying to file for asylum against the envoy’s best intentions.
Efforts to speak to Mr Vincent Bagiire, the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the matter were futile, while Amb Nimisha Madhvani, who has been the envoy’s line manager in the UK, could not be reached through her known mobile number.
However, the allegations trailing the envoy back to Kampala and admission that there was a domestic worker in the footnotes of the allegations appear to corroborate these revelations.
A Pattern of Diplomatic Scandals
Mugerwa’s disgrace is only the latest in a string of scandals involving Uganda’s foreign missions.
Reports in August revealed that Ugandan diplomats in Dubai were embroiled in an illegal gambling operation within the consulate, prompting Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Muwada Nkunyingi to raise the issue in Parliament.
The expulsion of Uganda’s envoy to Canada, Joy Ruth Acheng, also occurred in August after the Canadian government declared her persona non-grata.
Acheng’s departure added to the growing list of diplomatic embarrassments that include money laundering in Abuja and Algiers, embezzlement allegations in New York, tax evasion in Kinshasa, and mysterious fires at Uganda’s Embassy in Nairobi
Additional Reporting: NilePost
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