The District Returning Officer invited 372 Supervisors, presiding officers and polling assistants for training at St Joseph Vocational High School in Nakasongola town for training ahead of general elections to be held on Thursday, January 14.
The Minister for Local Government Raphael Magyezi has said his office is determined to fight cases of corruption which is overwhelming in the local Government.
“The Criminal Investigations Directorate is conducting investigations into allegations of abuse of office, conspiracy to defraud, embezzlement, fraudulent accounting and money laundering. Vide CIDHQTRS/94/2020,” the letter reads in part.
The funds comprise of 16 million Shillings meant for capacity building of school management committees, 17 million Shillings for monitoring of the UNICEF program, and the 3.2 million Shillings allocated to monitoring of the 2019 primary leaving exams.
Remegious Turyahabwe, the Rwiimi Sub-county LC V councilor, says Kaija collected money from November 16, 2016 to August 2017 and deposited it on her personal account instead of banking it on the account of Kasunganyanja health center.
Dr Magufuli told journalist at State lodge Masaka that corruption had partly persisted in Tanzania because the past leadership did not face it squarely. He spoke in Swahili.
Pricilla Mukamagaba, a resident of Murore town council and treasurer of Murore Care Point, a community based organization, accuses Muhimbura and Fr. Agaba for swindling Shillings 3.4 million, which belongs to her organisation.
Kabale Municipality Mayor Emmanuel Sentaro Byamugisha says Asiimwe was dragged to court on the basis of the forged transcript which authorities said was an indicator that he never attended the course for which he was sponsored. Byamugisha says the municipality is bent on recovering all swindled funds.
In a September 8th letter addressed to Iganga district officials, Mutabwire directs Yiga to hand over office temporary to Godfrey Ogwanga Okello, the Iganga Deputy Chief Administrative Officer.
Kabigumira is said to have committed the offence early this year while the Bushenyi district Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Lilian Nakamatte was away on study leave. Kabigumira was also supposed to be on leave at the time.
Ronald Were, the Officer Criminal Investigations Kamwenge Central Police station says the suspect will be presented in court on charges of embezzlement.
Police used pepper spray to disperse a group of angry residents who tried to resist the arrest of Zandia Mutwalib, the mayor Mbale municipality on Saturday morning. Mutwalib is accused of embezzling more than one billion shillings meant for the rehabilitation of Mbale Municipality.
The Court of Appeal has this morning declined to release jailed former Kampala socialite Shanita Namuyimbwa popularly known as Bad Black on bail pending the hearing of her appeal against the 4 year jail term handed to her over embezzlement.
The accountant of Building Resource Across Communities – BRAC, a Bangladeshi-based Microfinance institution operating in Uganda, have been arrested for allegedly embezzling 40 million shillings.
