Uganda, March 9 -- The House's top brass has moved to limit access to the precincts of Parliament amid an increase in cases of fraud carried out by rogue elements masquerading as either lawmakers or employees of the Parliamentary Commission.

Along with the lawmakers and employees of the Parliamentary Commission, the new measures also affect their personal assistants and visitors.

The move comes a few weeks after it emerged that fraudsters, passing off as procurement officers of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, tricked a Doha-based construction firm (Ascend Group) into handing them $306,950 (about Shs1.2b). The scammed money was purportedly a precondition for the award of a $120 million (about Shs466b) contract for th...