The State House Anti-corruption Unit together with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution and the Crime Investigating Department on Tuesday arraigned a prominent lawyer, Twebaze Drake before Buganda Road Magistrate’s Court on various charges.
The charges Counsel Twebaze is battling with include; Obtaining Money by False Pretense, Conspiracy to Defraud, and Forgery. He was remanded until 13 June, 2025.
Between September and December 2022, in Kampala City, the accused together with others allegedly obtained $553,500 from Talib Antonio McDowell of KG Unlimited LLC, Florida, USA, by falsely claiming that the money was necessary as a statutory compliance fee for pre-qualification to participate in a single-source bidding process for supplying a water plant to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries, and Fisheries, whereas not .
Additionally, Twebaze and his co-accused forged a letter to KG Unlimited LLC, purporting it to be a document authored by the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority where as not.