/ 11 February 1999

MUSEVENI’S BROTHER JUMPS

UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni has ordered his controversial brother, Major General Salim Saleh, to repay a loan he owes the troubled Uganda Commercial Bank, the independent Monitor newspaper reported on Thursday.”He [Museveni] sent me a message through someone that I should pay the UCB loan [of $1,7-million] so that I can clear this mess,” Saleh told the Monitor. The UCB has been at the heart of a corruption scandal after Greenland Investments, in which General Saleh had an interest, allegedly improperly purchased a 49% share in the bank from the Malaysian firm Westmont Land Asia. The affair forced Saleh to resign last December.