{"id":50530,"date":"2021-09-13T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=50530"},"modified":"2021-09-13T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:32:07","slug":"supreme-court-set-to-hear-former-ps-kashakas-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/supreme-court-set-to-hear-former-ps-kashakas-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court set to hear former PS Kashaka\u2019s appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ruth Anderah\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court has set September 16th to hear an appeal filed by the former Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Local Government John Muhanguzi Kashaka\u00a0challenging a 10- year jail term.<\/p>\n

The sentence was handed to him by the lower court\u00a0for causing financial loss to the government in a 2011\u00a0LC1 bicycle scam.<\/p>\n

Others are the then Principal Accountant Henry Bamuturaki\u00a0and\u00a0Sam Emorut Orongot the former Assistant Commissioner policy and planning who were sentenced to 13 years imprisonment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n


\nKashaka and his co-convicts were in 2016 convicted by then Anti-Corruption Court judge Catherine Bamugemereire for corruption and causing the government a financial loss of Shs4.6 billion in a shoddy deal of procuring\u00a070,000 bicycles, and were sentenced to 10 and 13 years respectively. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The bicycles were to be distributed to LC1 officials ahead of the 2011 presidential polls.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kashaka and team were also banned from holding any public office for a period of ten years.<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0being dissatisfied with Justice Bamugemereire’s\u00a0decision they appealed before Court of Appeal which also agreed with the decision of the trial Judge and upheld the sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n

This case is among the 20 criminal appeals sessions that kick off today before the Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The session include is to handled by;\u00a0The Chief Justice; Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo, Justices; Ruby Opio Aweri, Stella Arach, Lilian Tibatemwa Ekirikubinza, Paul Mugamba, Ezekiel Muhanguzi and Mike Chibita.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By Ruth Anderah\u00a0 The Supreme Court has set September 16th to hear an appeal filed by the former Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Local Government John Muhanguzi Kashaka\u00a0challenging a 10- year jail term. The sentence was handed to him by the lower court\u00a0for causing financial loss to the government in a 2011\u00a0LC1 bicycle scam. Others are the then Principal Accountant Henry Bamuturaki\u00a0and\u00a0Sam Emorut Orongot the former Assistant Commissioner policy and planning who were sentenced to 13 years imprisonment.\u00a0 Kashaka and his co-convicts were in 2016 convicted by then Anti-Corruption Court judge Catherine Bamugemereire for corruption and causing the government a financial loss of Shs4.6 billion in a shoddy deal of procuring\u00a070,000 bicycles, and were sentenced to 10 and 13 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":50531,"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":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50530","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\/50530"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}