Dictator Yoweri Museveni has pardoned Jimmy Lwamafa, one of the thieves accused in the Shs88.2 billion case.
The dictator’s actions were an exercise of 121 (1) (a) of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, 1995, as amended on the advice of the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy.
In November 2016, the Anti-Corruption Court found Lwamafa, a former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Public Service, Stephen Kiwanuka Kunsa (former commissioner in charge of pensions), and Christopher Oby (principal accountant in the pensions section) guilty of having fraudulently budgeted Shs 88.2 billion as the National Social Security Fund in the financial years 2010/2011 and 2011/2012, very well knowing that civil servants don’t contribute to the NSSF.
However, in a statement issued Monday, Prisons Spokesman Frank Baine said he pardoned 200 prisoners on public health and humanitarian grounds in an instrument of pardon on August 20, 2023.
Baine said that “he (Lwamafa with Afro in grey suit) is over 65 years old, and he falls in the category of the elderly.
In addition, he has not been well, and he qualifies to be released under the terminally ill grounds,” Baine said.
He explained that all the pardoned inmates would return to their respective homes by the end of Tuesday.
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