By Frank Kamuntu
The Uganda Prisons Service assistant spokesperson Moses Ssentalo has announced that HE Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pardoned former PS John Muhanguzi Kashaka.
Kashaka, the former permanent secretary ministry of Local Government was serving a 10yr jail term after he was convicted for causing Shs 4.2 billion financial loss to the government in the infamous LC1 bicycle scandal.
Kashaka was convicted in 2014 by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire. He was convicted with Henry Bamutura (former principal accountant); Robert Mwebaze (former principal procurement officer); Sam Emorutu Erongot (former assistant commissioner for policy and planning); Timothy Musherure (former consultant) and Adam Alum (member of evaluation committee) but Mwebaze has since died.
Apart from the jail terms, they were also barred them from holding any government office for ten years and ordered to compensate the government for the loss when they contracted a sham company, Ammam Industrial Tools and Equipment Limited to purchase 70, 000 bicycles from India. The bicycles were to be used by parish and Local Council chairpersons in the 2011 general elections but up to now, they have never been delivered.
Meanwhile, Ssentalo says the pardon comes after Muhanguzi served a period of 5 years, 02 months and 09 days in prison.
“In accordance with Article 121 (1) (a) of the 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda as amended, H.E The President of the Republic of Uganda has granted pardon to two (2) convicted prisoners; John Muhanguzi Kashaka and Henry Bamutura (posthumous) who had been convicted by the Anti Corruption Division of the High Court for the offense of causing financial loss and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 10 years and 10 days on 17th July 2014 and their Earliest Possible Date of Discharge (EPD) was 17th April 2021 subject to remission.”
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