The arrest followed whistleblower reports from Sacco members who informed Bangu that they had been receiving messages indicating routine withdrawals from Sacco's bank account without their approval. One of the complainants, who preferred to remain anonymous, said members initially suspected that fraudsters had hacked into their accounts.
In a letter written by SSP Ayub Waisswa of the CID Kampala Metropolitan Police to Equity Bank Managing Director which hosts one of the two accounts of Stephen Bairukanga the alleged gold dealer, the police wanted to know whether this was not a clear case of money laundering that is prohibited by law.
Michael Kasadha, the Busoga North police spokesperson told journalists on Wednesday that Muwanika's whereabouts are unknown. He, however, said that police had deployed a team of detectives to hunt him down. Kasadha explains that Muwanika is wanted on two counts of fraud and causing financial loss to the government.
Mwagale says that the district owes them about 200 million Shillings in salary arrears, adding that some health workers have resorted to working in private drug shops.
According to Lugulukiye, it all started when he went to withdraw money from the DFCU ATM in Mukono town around 3pm where he found the suspects pretending that ATM had broken down.
“Nobody understands their issue. Maybe they are playing tribal politics because if you are accusing somebody, you should have concrete proof to say this man has stolen this money, this man has done and mismanaged this and therefore he can go. So accusing somebody and yelling on top of your voice doesn’t make what you are saying right. They have not provided evidence,” Prof. Obua said.
Wanyoto and his co-accused Moses Ndyanabangyi were on Thursday granted a cash bail of 5 million shillings while their sureties were each bonded at 100 million shillings non-cash.
Rwahoima also says on July 16, 2015 the association members in Mugusu Sub County collected Shillings 3,270,000 million, which she deposited on the association account in Centenary Bank statement on July 20, 2015.
Stephen Katega, the Acting Dean of Students, says they are waiting for guidance from the bursar on how to proceed with the payment of the students allowances.
