The chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), Sylvia Muwebwa Ntambi, has been committed to High Court for trial on accusations of corruption and mismanagement of millions of taxpayers’ money.
The Anti-corruption Court at Kololo today morning directed to Ntambi to appear before the High Court at the next convenient session.
Chief Magistrate Pamela Lamunu also directed the accused to report to court in January 19 next year.
Ms Ntambi is indicted jointly with nine former employees of the commission on charges of embezzlement, abuse of office, conspiracy to defraud and corruption.
Prosecution case
Prosecution alleges that between July 2018 and April 2019 at EOC offices in Kampala, Ntambi being the chairperson of the commission, neglected her duty of directing the affairs and administration of the commission thereby leading to gross mismanagement of the commission funds.
Ntambi is jointly accused with the nine former employees of the commission who were interdicted after they were charged last year and were released on bail pending trial.
The nine include former senior personal secretary to the chairperson, Ms Agnes Enid Kamahoro, Moses Mugabe (senior monitoring evaluation officer), Harriet Byangire (senior accountant), Ronnie Kwesiga (Acting accounts assistant), Evans Jjemba (Principal Compliance officer), Manasseh Kwihangana (senior compliance officer), Sarah Nassanga (office attendant) and Sunday Nicholas Olwor.
How Stanbic Bank CFO Ronald Makata Blends Governance, Technology and Human Leadership to Drive PerformanceIt is alleged that between November 2018 and April 2019 at EOC offices in Kampala District, Mugabe, Mujuni, Jjemba and Ntambi being employed in the commission in their respective positions conspired to defraud the government of UGX35 million and more than UGX9.4 million between January and April 2019.
Prosecution alleges that between November 2018 and April 2019, Mugabe stole UGX29m and UGX14.5m which belonged to EOC.
The state also accuses Mugabe and Jjemba of stealing UGX5.7 million, the property of EOC.
According to prosecution, in November 2018 at EOC offices, Mujuni being the secretary to the commission approved payment of UGX35m purportedly for undertaking an audit exercise of Rural Electrification Programme in Uganda which caused financial loss to the government.
Prosecution alleges that in December 2018, Kamahoro, Mujuni and Olwor, abused their respective offices when they fraudulently processed, requisitioned, approved and forwarded for payment of UGX19 million purportedly for development.
According to prosecution, between January 24 and April 2019, Kamahoro and Nassanga stole more than Shs13million and Nassanga alone another UGX13 million from EOC.
