Karamoja Affairs Minister Mary Kitutu Granted Cash Bail After Week in Prison.
Ms Kitutu is facing two counts of causing loss of public property and one count of conspiracy to defraud for her role in the Karamoja iron sheets scandal.
The Anti-Corruption Court Chief Magistrate, Joan Aciro, has granted cash bail of Shs10 million to embattled Karamoja Affairs Minister, Mary Goretti Kitutu. Minister Kitutu had been in custody for a week.
Her younger brother, Michael Naboya Kitutu was equally granted a cash bail of Shs3 million during the Friday morning court proceedings.
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Ms Kitutu is facing two counts of causing loss of public property and one count of conspiracy to defraud for her role in the Karamoja iron sheets scandal.
Minister Kitutu is accused of mismanaging Karamoja relief items. She is jointly charged with her brother Michael Kitutu Naboya and her senior assistant secretary Joshua Abaho.
The 3 are charged with the loss of public property, corruption, receiving stolen property, and conspiracy to defraud.Prosecution states that the group between June 2022 and January 2023 at the Office of the Prime Minister’s stores in Namanve caused loss of public property in form of 14,500 iron sheets by diverting them from the intended purpose of benefiting the Karamoja Community Empowerment Programme to their own benefit, knowing that such acts would result into loss of public property.
Prosecution also states that Naboya Kitutu between similar months at Situmi village, Namisindwa district received 100 iron sheets marked ‘OPM Uganda’ knowing that the same had been feloniously obtained.
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