Hon. Bihande Bwambale Yokasi Mp Bukonzo East Kasese Disrtict Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement Of Shs 20 Million Constituency Development Funds And Filing False Accountability To The Speaker Of Parliament
April 4, 2012
Hon. Bihande Bwambale Yokasi, the Member of Parliament for Bukonzo East Constituency Kasese district on the 2nd of April 2012 before Her Lordship Bamugemereire of the Anticorruption Court pleaded guilty to embezzling Ug. Shs 20,000,000 Constituency development funds for the financial years FY2008/2009 and FY 2009/2010 and hiding the theft by filing false and forged accountability documents to the Speaker of Parliament of Uganda. The funds were advanced to him in the financial year of 2008/2009. He never carried out the earmarked activities but presented signatures of persons purporting he paid them which they all denied.
He was sentenced to pay a fine of two million shillings failure of which to go to prison for two years. He was ordered to refund shs. 10 million with interest set by the court.