By; Newsroom
The Anti-Corruption Court judge has denied bail to the three convicted former ministry of Public Service officials pending hearing of their case in connection to forgery of a judicial document in order to siphon over Shs15.4 billion pension cash.
The convicts; Christopher Obey, former principal accountant in the Pensions department; Stephen Kiwanuka Kunsa, former Director of Research and Development and Jimmy Lwamafa, the former permanent secretary of the same ministry had asked court to release them on bail on grounds that they are of advanced age, gravely ill and that since their co-accused in the pending case, City lawyer Bob Kasango was granted bail, they too deserve equal treatment before the law.
However, the presiding Judge Margret Tibulya denied the convicts bail saying “facts which might be sufficient in one case, might not be enough to warrant the grant of the bail application in the peculiar context of another matter.
The judge further noted that she was not convinced by the merits of the applications.
Particulars of the new charges state that in December 2011 at the Ministry of Public Service headquarters in Kampala, Lwamafa, Obey and Kunsa while employed as permanent secretary, principal accountant in charge of pension and commissioner for compensation department, respectively, diverted Shs2 billion of government for the benefit of Hall and Partners purporting it to be payment for costs and legal fees in a High Court case of 1998.
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