Trio plundered Shs88b meant for pensioners
The Anti-corruption court in Kololo has found guilty and convicted three officials from the Public Service ministry; Jimmy Lwamafa, Stephen Kiwanuka Kunsa and Christopher Obey of causing government a Shs88.2 billion loss in unmandated NSSF contributions of public servants.
Justice Lawrence Gidudu ruled that prosecution evidence proved that there was a syndicate crafted by the three officials from the Public Service ministry that was modified by their fellow fraudsters in the Finance Ministry, who went a head to smoothen it in the Bank of Uganda before it was perfected in Cairo Bank which illegally paid the said money to ghost pensioners.
Court found that Mr Lwamafa and his co-accused Mr Christopher Obey (former principal accountant) and Mr Stephen Kunsa Kiwanuka (former director for research and development) in the two aforementioned financial years irregularly budgeted for Shs88.2b as social security contributions well knowing that civil servants don’t make such contributions.
The presiding judge then convicted the 3 accused on all the ten counts including causing financial loss, abuse of office, False accounting of a public officer, diversion of government resources and conspiracy to defraud government of the Shs88.2 billion The judge is expected to deliver his sentence later today.
