NEWS– Ministry of Trade Permanent Secretary Geraldine Ssali Busulwa has been charged, remanded to Luzira prison and committed to stand trial before the High court’s Anti-corruption Division on charges of Abuse of office, causing Government a financial loss and conspiring with 3 MPs, a lawyer and an official from her ministry to defraud govt of more than 3.6 billion shillings that was meant to compensate war loss victims in their co-operative unions.
Ssali has today been arraigned in the Dock alongside MPs, Micheal Mawanda , Ignatius Wamakuyu, Paul Akamba , lawyer Julius Kirya Taitankonko and Leonard Kavundira; a principle co-operative officer in the trade ministry who have been on remand for a month now on charges of Diversion of public resources and Conspiracy to defraud .
However Ssali and the MPs have not pleaded to the charges after the DPP’s amendments also introduced a new charge of money laundering which is grave in nature and only tribal by the High court. This means the suspects have also lost their bid to apply and be released on bail at this stage as they can only do so in the High court where they have also been committed to.
Prosecution states that Geraldine Ssali Busulwa during the financial year 2021/ 2022 and 2022/ 2023 while employed as a permanent Secretary and assigned the role of an accounting officer in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and co-operatives, she irregularly introduced Buyaka Growers co-operative society LTd among the co-operatives to be compensated by government for the war loss yet the same had not been listed for a supplementary budget of August 2021.https://eastafricanwatch.net/ugandas-new-british-high-commissioner-lisa-chesney-takes-charge-in-october-2024/
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