The top management of National Information Technology Authority (NITA-U) yesterday released a panicky statement abruptly reducing the price of internet (mbps) from $190 to $70, and according to the executive director, James Saka, this takes immediate effect.

Red Pepper has reliably confirmed that the unexpected news release had nothing to do with NITA-U – UTL wars the press has reported about before.

The timing coincided with a whistleblower dossier that the aggrieved NITA-U insiders had taken to the Inspectorate of Government listing a range of scandals at the Lugogo bypass-based technology entity.

The IGG Irene Mulyagonja could neither confirm nor deny existence of the whistleblower complaint.