{"id":5178,"date":"2013-03-07T14:20:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2013-03-07T14:20:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:20:59","slug":"kazinda-ordered-to-defend-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/kazinda-ordered-to-defend-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazinda ordered to defend self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kazinda-with-police.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5179\" alt=\"Kazinda with police\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kazinda-with-police.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kazinda-with-police.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kazinda-with-police-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kazinda-with-police-186x125.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kazinda-with-police-99x67.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Court has ruled that the interdicted principal accountant in the office of the Prime Minister Geoffrey Kazinda has a case to answer.<\/p>\n<p>The Anti-Corruption court judge David Wangutusi ruled that prosecution had made out a case requiring Kazinda to defend himself on the allegations that he forged Pius Bigirimana\u2019s signature and being in possession of government stores.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution adduced 14witnesses in this case including the principal accountant in the office of the Prime Minister Pius Bigirimana and current Principal accountant in the same office Kenneth Mugumya.<\/p>\n<p>Kazinda, who is in detention in Luzira prison, is charged with abuse of office, forgery and making document without authority.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution alleged that Kazinda while employed\u00a0 as the principal account\u00a0 in the Prime Minister\u2019s office , abused his office when\u00a0 he kept, in a private residence, computer generated\u00a0 letters and cash withdrawal\u00a0 authorization\u00a0 forms\u00a0 bearing\u00a0\u00a0 forged signature of Pius Bigirimana, the permanent\u00a0 secretary\u00a0 in the Prime Minister&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate charge which is yet\u00a0 to start on January28, Kazinda and his\u00a0\u00a0 co- accused Martin Owor commissioner for relief disaster preparedness in prime minister&#8217;s office, Beatrice Kezabu assistant resettlement officer and Hussein Katumwa station manager of Total Ntinda I Service Station were charged with embezzlement, false accounting and conspiracy to commit a felony.<\/p>\n<p>The trial judge adjourned the case to 22 March for Kazinda to defend himself on the alleged charges against him, and his intending to produce three witnesses to defend him.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\">\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court has ruled that the interdicted principal accountant in the office of the Prime Minister Geoffrey Kazinda has a case to answer. The Anti-Corruption court judge David Wangutusi ruled that prosecution had made out a case requiring Kazinda to defend himself on the allegations that he forged Pius Bigirimana\u2019s signature and being in possession of government stores. Prosecution adduced 14witnesses in this case including the principal accountant in the office of the Prime Minister Pius Bigirimana and current Principal accountant in the same office Kenneth Mugumya. Kazinda, who is in detention in Luzira prison, is charged with abuse of office, forgery and making document without authority. Prosecution alleged that Kazinda while employed\u00a0 as the principal account\u00a0 in the Prime Minister\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":5179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-5178","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\/5178"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}