State prosecutor charged with corruption

By Sania Babirye

A State prosecutor with the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has been charged with corruption after he received a 200,000 bribe.

48 year old Simon Kigwana attached to Nabweru chief magistrate court has today been arraigned before the Anti-Corruption Court grade one magistrate Sarah Namusobya charged with two counts of corruption and abuse of office.

He has however denied the charges and releases on a one million cash bail.

He has now been ordered to report back to court after two weeks as investigations into the case continues.

Prosecution states that on the 14th of May 2019 at Nabweru Chief Magistrate’s Court in Kawempe Division, in Kampala district, Kigwana directly solicited for a gratification of 6million shillings for himself from a one Odavious Kasumba and Zam Ndagire in exchange for him to object to a bail application of Abdul Jaggwe .

The suspect had been charged with the offense of threatening violence before Nabweru Court.

Court has further learnt that on the May 5th the following day, Kigwana received 200,000shillings out of the 6million he had asked for.