{"id":40605,"date":"2019-03-14T10:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T07:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=40605"},"modified":"2019-03-14T10:34:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T07:34:56","slug":"kazinda-cleared-of-forging-pius-bigirimanas-signature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/kazinda-cleared-of-forging-pius-bigirimanas-signature\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazinda cleared of forging Pius Bigirimana’s signature"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ruth Anderah.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Former principal accountant in the prime minister’s Geoffrey Kazinda has been cleared of forging Pius Bigirimana’s signature.<\/p>\n

Three justices of court of Appeal ruled that Kazinda was wrongly convicted and erroneously served a 5 year jail term that was handed to him by the Anti-corruption court for forging the signature of his former Boss and permanent secretary Pius Bigirimana.<\/p>\n

Three justices , Geoffrey Kiryabwire , Stephen Musota and Percy Tuhaise\u00a0 have overturned Kazinda’s conviction after faulting\u00a0 trial\u00a0 judge David Wangututsi of failing to properly evaluate the evidence adduced\u00a0 before him and\u00a0 erroneously found Kazinda guilty of abuse of office, forgery and being in\u00a0 unlawful possession of government stores .<\/p>\n

However after fully\u00a0 serving the 5 years , the 3 justices have today concurred with Kazinda that police and prosecution did shoddy investigations\u00a0 that failed to prove that the cash withdraw forms and security papers\u00a0 bearing\u00a0 a forged signature of Bigirinana\u00a0 were indeed found at the home of Kazinda ‘s\u00a0 mother TeopistaNanfuka.<\/p>\n

The judges added that by the time of Kazinda\u2019s arrest on July 22rd 2012, he had not yet handed over office as Principal Accountant in the OPM and therefore it\u2019s not surprising that he was found with the ministry’s documents at his residence.<\/p>\n

However even though the justices\u00a0 ordered for Kazinda’s immediate release , he cannot leave prison\u00a0 because he\u00a0 is still\u00a0 serving another 5 year jail sentence handed to him by the Anti -corruption court for causing a 316 million shillings loss in forged\u00a0 fuel receipts\u00a0 to the OPM.<\/p>\n

Kazinda has Also since appealed against the said sentence which still pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ruth Anderah. Former principal accountant in the prime minister’s Geoffrey Kazinda has been cleared of forging Pius Bigirimana’s signature. Three justices of court of Appeal ruled that Kazinda was wrongly convicted and erroneously served a 5 year jail term that was handed to him by the Anti-corruption court for forging the signature of his former Boss and permanent secretary Pius Bigirimana. Three justices , Geoffrey Kiryabwire , Stephen Musota and Percy Tuhaise\u00a0 have overturned Kazinda’s conviction after faulting\u00a0 trial\u00a0 judge David Wangututsi of failing to properly evaluate the evidence adduced\u00a0 before him and\u00a0 erroneously found Kazinda guilty of abuse of office, forgery and being in\u00a0 unlawful possession of government stores . However after fully\u00a0 serving the 5 years , […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4994,"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-40605","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\/40605"}],"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=40605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}