The Ministry of Trade PS, Geraldine Ssali Busuulwa, has been arraigned and charged in the Anti-Corruption Court.
Ssali has been charged with abuse of office and causing financial loss to the government, among others.
She had earlier been summoned by police over the mismanagement of funds meant for compensation of cooperatives associations’ losses during previous wars in Uganda.
A report by Parliament faulted the Ministry of Trade for making fraudulent payments totalling 48.77 billion Shillings worth of compensation paid between FY 2019/2020 and 2022/2023 either in excess or completely outside the amounts allocated to specific Cooperatives in the Ministry’s work plan.
The Committee recommended that Ssali be investigated by the DPP with the view of prosecution under Section 79 of the Public Finance Management Act, 2015 for unlawfully authorizing 1.74 billion Shillings payment of Okoro Coffee Growers Cooperative Union Limited in Zombo before its verification.
