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By Gad Masereka Following a gunshot on Lake Victoria in Namayingo District by a Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier assigned to the Fisheries Protection Unit,...
The board of the International Monetary Fund has approved the immediate release of about $120 million (Ush440.4 billion) to the country even as it warned of elevated...
President Yoweri Museveni has advised the people of Kabale district to avoid smuggled goods and instead engage in formal business. Museveni made the remark at the...
The Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) has issued a public warning about the rise in fraud cases. According to UCC’s Acting Head of Communication and International Relations...
By Gad Masereka Sudhir Ruparelia, Uganda’s leading business magnate, has added another jewel to his illustrious portfolio with the unveiling of a cutting-edge development along Kitante...
By Gad Masereka Richard Michael Nataka, the former secretary general of the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS), was sentenced to 7 years in prison by a Kampala anti-corruption court for embezzling more than Shs 1 billion. Nataka was found guilty on four counts of embezzlement, inflicting financial loss, abuse of office, and conspiracy to defraud by a court presided over by grade one magistrate Moses Nabende. Between February 1, 2013 and September 30, 2013, he embezzled more than Shs 1.2 billion from URCS in Kampala, when he illegally approved and paid Buki Enterprises Limited for construction work at the African Youth Leadership and Training Centre (Namakwa). For the execution of the stated works, Nataka signed duplicate contracts in favor of Buki Enterprise, Jensani Construction, and Saki Technical Services Limited. Nataka, who was previously on trial with two others, Geoffrey Serunjogi and Geoffrey Weponde, the Uganda Red Cross Society’s deputy director for finance, was found guilty based on evidence from seven prosecution witnesses, while his co-accused were acquitted due to a lack of sufficient evidence to pin them. “The prison sentences will not be cumulative. The accused is also ordered to pay Uganda Red Cross Society 1,236, 917,932 shillings in compensation “Nabende remarked. Nataka has also been forbidden from holding public office for a ten-year period, as stipulated by the Anti-Corruption Act. The warrant of commitment from Nabende to the Superintendent of Prisons Murchison Bay Prison reads, “This is to authorize and require you, the said superintendent, to receive the said Nataka Richard Michael into your custody in the said prison together with the warrant and there carry out the aforementioned sentence into execution according to law.”
Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, the leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP), has slammed the government for failing to assist Christopher Sembuya, one of Uganda’s...
City Businessman Hamis Kiggundu alias Ham has petitioned the Chief Justice of Uganda’s Judiciary Alfonse Owiny-Dollo to intervene in his scandal with Diamond Trust Bank after...
After allegedly losing nearly Shs 10 billion to Mbarara City North MP Robert Mwesigwa Rukaari, a family in western Uganda’s Isingiro district has petitioned parliament. Hillary...
The news that tycoon Hamis Kiggundu aka Ham had lost his appeal against Diamond Trust Bank (DTB), which had just acknowledged to illegality before the supreme...