CORRUPTION: Three Ugandan MPs Remanded

The Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala has remanded three Ugandan MPs to Luzira Prison after the temple of justice charged them with corruption.

The trio are Yusuf Mutembule, the MP for Bunyole West; Paul Akamba, the Busiki County MP; and Cissy Namujju, the Lwengo District Woman MP.

On June 10, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) based in Kibuli summoned Namujju, Mutembule and Akamba to appear for interrogation over corruption.

CID officers would later drive each to their home and search them as they dug evidence of their involvement in corruption.

The trio had been under police detention since June 10.

On June 12, the trio were brought before Chief Magistrate Joan Aciro to be formally charged.

Prosecution alleged that Namujju, Akamba and Mutembule sought demanded 20 per cent of the budget of the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) to use their influence to make the budget committee for the increment of the commission’s budget.

Mutembule, Akamba and Namujju pleaded not guilty to the charges of corruption.

They were remanded to prison until June 14.

The MPs got into trouble after President Yoweri Museveni vowed to crush corrupt officials, including a racket of corrupt MPs and finance ministry officials. (See Details Here and There).