Uganda, April 22 -- Top executives of the Dubai-based ROWARD Capital Commercial Broker LLC, the new shareholders in the revived Uganda Telecom, are due to fly in this week for high-stakes discussions amid infighting among bureaucrats.

Officials said the disagreements, evidenced in trails of official correspondences and minutes of meetings this newspaper has seen, threaten to scuttle the $225m (Shs855b) capital injection in the company.

The contention is over a proposal for the transfer of management of the National Data Transmission Backbone Infrastructure and e-Governance Infrastructure (NBI/EDI) from the National Information Technology Authority-Uganda (NITA-U) to Uganda Telecom, now trading as Uganda Telecommunications Corporation Li...