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Senate Minority Leader Moses Wetangula refutes BAT bribery story, demands immediate apology

By Standard Reporter | Dec. 3, 2015

Senate Minority Leader Moses Wetangula has discredited a British Broadcasting Co-operation (BBC) alleged investigative exposure linking him to a bribery scandal to interfere with anti-smoking laws.

Senator Wetangula yesterday at Parliament Building, flanked by over ten legislators, including National Assembly Deputy Minority Leader Jakoyo Midiwo (Gem) and Deputy Minority Whip Chris Wamalwa (Kiminini) said the British American Tobacco (BAT) took offense with the bribery claims by the BBC and a section of local news outlets, terming it an erroneous reporting.

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