Author: Alexandra Katusiime

17 out of 20 people including Police Officers who were in August this year arrested in connection with the demolition  of St. Peters Church in Ndeeba – Kampala and have been formally charged before the Anti-Corruption Court  with Abuse of  Office,  Corruption, theft and defying Presidential and Ministry of Health Guidelines on the Spread of COVID-19 Pandemic. This follows DPP Jane Frances Abodo’s directive to Makindye Magistrate court last week to have the accused persons case file  transferred to the trial Court in Kololo. They include SSP Agero Richard, SP Odero Martin, ASP Isabirye Karoli, AIP Kiro Anthony, two KCCA…

Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Kigezi Region and Kabale Districtstakeholders have asked President Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa to assent to the Non-Conviction Based Asset Recovery Bill in order to recover government funds that get lost through corruption and embezzlement. Non-Conviction Based Asset Recovery is a procedure that provides for theseizure and forfeiture of stolen assets without the need for a criminal conviction. Speaking yesterday during the press conference to launch of the Anti-corruption week activities for the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) at Lukiiko Hall in Kabale Municipality, the Executive Director of Kick Corruption out of Uganda, Robert Kakuru Byamugisha…

City Pastor Franklin Mondo Mugisha of Empowerement Christian Centre Church International has been summoned to appear before a magistrate at  Buganda Road Court on 22nd December, 2020 to answer to charges of defrauding his worshippers of over Shs 4.5Bn in a fake State House Scholarship and Employment Scam. Pastor Mondo is jointly charged with a fellow preacher Pastor Siraje Ssemanda who is already on remand at Kitalya Government prison, a Lawyer Jimmy Arinaitwe and a renowned Gospel Singer Margret Kayima alias Nabbi Omukazi. According to the summons issued and signed by Grade One Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu, Pastor Mondo and 2 others are…

The National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate for President, Robert Kyagulanyi is under criticism for endorsing a National Resistance Movement (NRM) flag bearer for Koboko Municipality, Dr. Charles Ayume. The Kyadondo East legislator made the announcement yesterday while canvassing support in Koboko District and other districts of West Nile like Maracha and Yumbe. “I have studied Mr Ayume for a long time and he inspires me. I know he will not say anything good about me but wherever he is, tell him that I support him,” Kyagulanyi appealed to the people of Koboko in his address. Dr. Ayume, is the…

Hearing of the corruption case against 3 Bank of Uganda (BoU) Officials accused of having allowed the inclusion of unauthorised material on a cargo plane fully chartered by Bank of Uganda has commenced before the Anti-Corruption  court. Grade One Magistrate Abert Asiimwe is presiding over the trial of Charles Akol Malinga who was then Director Currency together with Francis Kakeeto and Fred Vito Wanyama who were attached to the Central Bank Mbale Branch in Mbale District but are now on interdiction. They are alleged to have committed the offence between 1st March and 26th April 2019 between France, Belgium and Entebbe International…

2 National Resistance Movement (NRM) Political rivals in the Mawogola -North MP race have agreed to resolve their differences in Court after Sodo Kaguta allowed Shartis Kuteesa Musherure to join the case he filed last month as the second respondent. Sodo is challenging the refusal by their Party NRM to announce him as it’s official Candidate for Mawogola North Constituency but Musherure says she holds the same view with the NRM Electoral Commission and the party Central Executive Committee (CEC)  that neither herself nor Sodo won the contentious party primary election in Mawogola North. It is now left for Presiding High…

Kampala City Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, has rapped the ruling government for abandoning the health care system in the country – something he says is pushing many Ugandans into seeking treatment abroad. Lukwago, who belongs to the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) an opposition political party, had until recently been bedridden and admitted in Nairobi Hospital. He returned to the country on Friday 4th December after more than a week in the neighbouring Kenya, where he had gone to receive treatment. Lukwago further rapped the ruling government for ignoring the welfare of professional doctors, many of him have gone to…

38 former Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels led by Jamil Mukulu have cried out to the International Crimes Division of the High Court over the gross human rights violations arising out of their long stay on remand and inability to access their Lawyers. Mukulu and 2 other accused persons even shunned todays proceedings conducted via Video Conferencing demanding that they want to be physically produced in Court for the pending trial that has been scheduled to commence on the 25th January, 2021. However Mukulu wants the trial halted  citing personal human rights violations that were metted on him right from…

The long awaited trial of jailed former leader of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group, Jamil Mukulu and 37 others on charges of  terrorism, murder, aggrevated robbery and belonging to a terrorism organisation – ADF has been scheduled for tomorrow 4th December before the International Crimes Division of the High Court in Kampala. Three Justices Micheal Elubu, Susan Okalany and Lydia Mugambe are to preside over the hearing starting at 9am. According to the Deputy Registrar Beatrice Stella Atingu, the team that is preparing the hearing of this case including the trial panel met in September this year and resolved…

The trial of four Officials in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) implicated in the inflation of COVID-19 food relief prices that was slated to begin today before the Anti-Corruption Division of the High Court has failed to commence. The hearing of the case has been adjourned to 8th December, 2020 (next Tuesday) when the trial Judge Magret Tibulya will be present. The Anti-Corruption Court Acting Deputy Registrar Pamella Lamunu Ochaya has adjourned the matter and ordered the accused persons to report back on that date. These include Permanent Secretary, Ms. Guwatudde Christine Kintu, Under Secretary, Mr. Joel Wanjala, …