{"id":32038,"date":"2017-10-30T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=32038"},"modified":"2017-10-30T12:37:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T12:37:46","slug":"byandala-case-pushed-as-anti-corruption-court-has-no-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/byandala-case-pushed-as-anti-corruption-court-has-no-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Byandala case pushed as Anti-Corruption court has no electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ruth Anderah:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hearing of the case in which former works minister Abraham Byandala and six others are charged with causing loss of\u00a0 24bn \u00a0to government in the shoddy Mukono- Katisi-Kyetume road\u00a0 upgrade scam has flopped today at the anti-corruption court.<\/p>\n<p>The accused were today expected to start defending themselves but the hearing of the case could not go on because the courts had no electricity.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted Justice Lawrence Gidudu to adjourn the case to tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>On the 16th of October Justice Gidudu ruled that Byandala and his co-accused had a case to answer.<\/p>\n<p>Byandala is charged together with four officials from UNRA including\u00a0 Berunado Ssebbugga, Joe Ssemugooma, Wilberforce Senjako,\u00a0 Marvin Baryaruha,\u00a0 a former employee of Housing Finance bank\u00a0 Isaac Mugote and City businessman Apolo Ssenketo.<\/p>\n<p>Ssenketo is separately charged with theft and obtaining the contentious 24bn shillings\u00a0 by falsely presenting himself as the president of ETAW -Uganda, the non-existent company which had allegedly\u00a0 won the contract to upgrade the\u00a0 said road.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ruth Anderah: Hearing of the case in which former works minister Abraham Byandala and six others are charged with causing loss of\u00a0 24bn \u00a0to government in the shoddy Mukono- Katisi-Kyetume road\u00a0 upgrade scam has flopped today at the anti-corruption court. The accused were today expected to start defending themselves but the hearing of the case could not go on because the courts had no electricity. This prompted Justice Lawrence Gidudu to adjourn the case to tomorrow. On the 16th of October Justice Gidudu ruled that Byandala and his co-accused had a case to answer. Byandala is charged together with four officials from UNRA including\u00a0 Berunado Ssebbugga, Joe Ssemugooma, Wilberforce Senjako,\u00a0 Marvin Baryaruha,\u00a0 a former employee of Housing Finance bank\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}