{"id":4134,"date":"2012-11-02T08:02:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2012-11-02T08:02:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T05:02:17","slug":"ministers-trial-continues-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/ministers-trial-continues-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers&#8217; trial continues today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ministers-at-court2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4135\" title=\"Ministers-at-court\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ministers-at-court2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trial of the three ministers accused of causing financial loss ahead of the<br \/>\nCommon Wealth Heads of Government Meeting\u00a0in 2007 resumes this morning for submissions.<\/p>\n<p>This after prosecution presented 11 witnesses all of whom cleared the ministers of<br \/>\nany wrong doing.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution led by Sydney Asubo informed court that it has closed its case after all the witnesses<br \/>\ntestified.<\/p>\n<p>The ministers accused of conspiring to cause the state a 14bn sh loss in 2005 are<br \/>\nSam Kutesa, John Nasasira and Mwesigwa Rukutana.<\/p>\n<p>The witnesses included a High Court Judge in charge the family division Justice<br \/>\nBilly Kainamura, the then permanent secretary ministry of foreign affairs<br \/>\nAmbassador Julius Onen, Chief Engineer in ministry of works Samson Bagonza,<br \/>\nhead of public service John Mitala.<\/p>\n<p>Others are Chris Kasami, the Secretary to the treasury, Ambassador James Mugume the<br \/>\nPermanent Secretary foreign affairs and Julius Karendi a senior inspectorate<br \/>\nofficer in the IGG\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The case is before Justice Paul Mugamba the head of Anti- corruption court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of the three ministers accused of causing financial loss ahead of the Common Wealth Heads of Government Meeting\u00a0in 2007 resumes this morning for submissions. This after prosecution presented 11 witnesses all of whom cleared the ministers of any wrong doing. Prosecution led by Sydney Asubo informed court that it has closed its case after all the witnesses testified. The ministers accused of conspiring to cause the state a 14bn sh loss in 2005 are Sam Kutesa, John Nasasira and Mwesigwa Rukutana. The witnesses included a High Court Judge in charge the family division Justice Billy Kainamura, the then permanent secretary ministry of foreign affairs Ambassador Julius Onen, Chief Engineer in ministry of works Samson Bagonza, head of public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4135,"comment_status":"open","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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}