Picfare Uganda Ltd stands at the centre of a petition in Burundi that has sucked in the country’s president and got the whistleblower jailed. A Bujumbura-based civil society organisation has in its petition asked the Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza to shed more light on how a US$13,670,770 debt paid by the Ugandan government ended up in the bank account of Picfare Uganda Ltd.
The money, which Picfare acknowledges receiving, is a settlement for goods Burundi supplied the NRM during