The former Bank of Uganda supervision director, Ms Justine Bagyenda is set to tussle it out with several media houses claiming defamation of character and spreading harmful propaganda charges, over obtaining and publishing her bank details.
According to media reports, Ms Bagyenda, has filed a case against 12 media houses at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (CID). Online publications Chimpreports, Eagle Online, Matooke Republic, Spy Reports, Trumpet news, CEO Uganda, Watchdog Uganda, Xpress Times, Investigator, Newz Uganda, The Insider Uganda and Daily Post Uganda allegedly published Ms Bagyenda’s leaked bank, mobile money details and photographs of her alleged property.
Daily Monitor on Thursday said Mr Vicent Ssekatte, the spokesman of CID, confirmed that Ms Bagyenda had registered a complaint at police and investigations have already started.
“There are several media houses that are under investigation and their editors or owners are to be summoned to record statements,” Mr Ssekate said yesterday.
The publication of Ms Bagyenda’s bank and mobile money transfer details prompted several major commercial banks to run public apologies in the media and promised to punish their workers who leaked them to different online publications.
These stories and more, attracted the attention of the Inspectorate of Government which constituted investigations into her suspicious accumulation of wealth.
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Bagyenda despite being defiant recently had her long stint at the Central Bank short cut by a few months following the Governor Emmanuel Mutebile’s move to send her into early retirement at the helm of scandals emanating from the ‘fraudulent’ giveaway of the defunct Crane Bank to Dfcu Bank at a laughable cost of just Shs 200 billion.
She has since refused to leave Bank of Uganda.
