WEWE DOMINIC a Technician/Caretaker District Engineer, Moyo District Local Government was convicted on 21st January 2016 on four counts of false accounting, causing financial loss, embezzlement and abuse of office. He was acquitted on count 3 of Causing Financial Loss. Wewe Dominic was remanded to Luzira and will be brought back to court on the 27th of January for sentencing.

Mr. Wewe was arrested in 2014 by the Inspectorate of Government following a complaint received accusing him of various corruption offenses. He was charged at the Anti-Corruption Court as follows:

COUNT 1: FALSE ACCOUNTING BY PUBLIC OFFICER C/S 22 of the Anti-Corruption Act 2009. PARTICULARS OF THE OFFENCE: WEWE DOMINIC, on 12th May 2011 being the Acting District Engineer, Moyo District Local Government charged with management of 8,668,000/= meant for payment for works on Masaloa Chokwe Road in Lefori Sub-county knowingly furnished false accountability for 8,668,000/= to the Chief Administrative Officer, Moyo District Local Government.

COUNT II: CAUSING FINANCIAL LOSS C/S 20 of the Anti-Corruption Act 2009. PARTICULARS OF THE OFFENCE: WEWE DOMINIC, on 30th March 2011 being Acting District Engineer, Moyo District Local Government in the performance of his duties inflated a budget for light grading of 4.5 kilometres of Masaloa-Chokwe Road Link from 6,072,000/= to 16,240,000/= with knowledge or reason to believe that his act would cause Moyo District Local Government financial loss and indeed caused financial loss of 10,168,000/=.

COUNT III: CAUSING FINANCIAL LOSS C/S 20 of the Anti Corruption Act 2009. PARTICULARS OF THE OFFENCE: WEWE DOMINIC, on the 12th May 2011 being the Acting District Engineer, Moyo District Local Government in the performance of his duties paid 810,000/= to works department officials for no work done with knowledge or reason to believe that his act would cause Moyo District local Government financial loss and indeed caused financial loss of Uganda 810,000/=.

COUNT IV: EMBEZZLEMENT C/S 19 of the Anti-Corruption Act, 2009. PARTICULARS OF THE OFFENCE: WEWE DOMINIC, while being the Acting District Engineer, Moyo District Local Government between April 2011 and July 2011, stole 3,148,000/= being the property of his employer, which he had access to by virtue of his office.

COUNT V: ABUSE OF OFFICE C/S (11) of the Anti-Corruption Act 2009. PARTICULARS OF THE OFFENCE: WEWE DOMINIC, on 12th May 2011 while performing his duties as caretaker Acting District Engineer, Moyo District Local Government did in abuse of authority of his office, an arbitrary act prejudicial to the interests of his employer, knowingly furnished false accountability of 8,668,000/= which he received on the 8th April 2011 through Voucher No. 20/04 for the payment of labourers, purchase, loading, offloading, installation, construction of culverts, battery and miscellaneous fees in the construction and light grading of Masaloa Chokwe Link in Lefori Sub-county, Moyo District.

As part of the Activities to mark the International Anti-Corruption Day 2015, the Anti-Corruption Agencies particularly OAG, PPDA, IG, DEI and JLOS, organised joint activities during the week, from 2nd - 9th December 2015. The theme for the Week's activities was: Stop Syndicate Corruption for Better Service Delivery.

The main purpose of the Anti-Corruption Week 2015 was to commit the public and government institutions to participate and stop syndicate corruption for better service delivery.

The specific objectives are to;
a) Mobilize and sensitize the public on dangers of syndicate corruption and collusion in service delivery.
b) Empower the public to actively participate in identifying and reporting syndicate corruption.
c) Provide a forum to assess the existing anti-corruption strategies and challenges to combat syndicate corruption.

The activities organised included: Boardroom Sessions with various MDAs, A Procession which was led by the 3rd Deputy Prime Minister, Open Days organised at Naukmatt Oasis Mall and Anti Corruption Division of the High Court, Meeting with Members of the Media, various Radio and TV Talks shows and a Dialogue which was the climax of the activities.

The institutions came up with a Joint Statement of how the various institutions will fight corruption specifically Syndicate Corruption given that colossal sums of money is being lost as a result of syndicated corruption where different MDAs collude to defraud government.

Related files and publications;
Anti Corruption day speech Rt. Hon Prime minister 2015
Speech from German Ambassador
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