The four accused and Geoffrey Kayinga, the Ag. District Water Officer, who is still on the run, between the month of April and June 2024 in the financial year 2023-2024, in Butambala district, they misappropriated 80,000.86 litres of fuel valued at sh431,447,400 meant for road works under sh1 Billion Road Maintenance Grant.
The State House Anti-Corruption Unit (SHACU) working with the Crime Investigations Department and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution have arraigned four Butambala district officials before the Butambala Chief Magistrates Court on charges of theft of fuel and conspiracy to defraud.
The suspects include; Jessica Naigembe, the Ag. District Engineer, Joseph Wandera, the Chief Finance Officer, Fred Muwaga, the District Internal Auditor and Charles Kizito Mukalazi, the district driver. They have been remanded until 28/07/2025.
The four accused and Geoffrey Kayinga, the Ag. District Water Officer, who is still on the run, between the month of April and June 2024 in the financial year 2023-2024, in Butambala district, they misappropriated 80,000.86 litres of fuel valued at sh431,447,400 meant for road works under sh1 Billion Road Maintenance Grant.
It is alleged that the two Engineers, Jessica Naigembe and Geoffrey Kayinga, would inflate fuel required for different road projects and then later misappropriate the fuel by drawing it irregularly or issuing it to private individuals, outside the planned works.
In order to cover up, the engineers would then connive with different fuel station managers to falsify accountabilities purporting to have issued the fuel to drivers under the Works Department for road works, which drivers denied having consumed the said fuel.
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Court records show that Wandera Joseph and Muwaga Fred, the Chief Finance Officer and District Internal Auditor, respectively, are faulted for deliberately failing to supervise the Engineers who were entrusted with the receipt and expenditure of the sh1 Billion Road Maintenance grant.
Investigations also revealed that both officials have equally been benefiting by irregularly consuming fuel meant for road works and in effect, failing to check the abuses by the engineers.
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