JSC staff charged with theft

KAMPALA. Two Judicial Service Commission (JSC) officials were on Thursday charged with fraud before Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s Court.
The officials are Mr Pastor Kiiza,45, an office supervisor and resident of Ntuuse–Nsambya, a Kampala suburb, and Mr Moses Waiswa, 36, an internal auditor and resident of Kyanja in Wakiso District.

Appearing before Chief Magistrate Jamson Karemani, Mr Kiiza was independently charged with two counts of forgery and uttering false documents under the Penal Code Act. Mr Kiiza and Mr Waiswa are jointly facing a third count of conspiracy to commit an offence. They both denied the charges.
They were released on a cash bail of Shs1m and their sureties given a Shs10m non-cash bond each.

Court adjourned the case to May 11 for the hearing.
Prosecution contends that Mr Kiiza on June 19, 2015, at JSC on Farmers House in Kampala, being employed as store keeper, forged a “goods-received” note showing that JSC had received 444 copies of Citizens handbooks whereas not. It is further stated that Mr Kiiza on the same date and place fraudulently uttered the said false “goods-received” note to one Ms Aminah Nabulime, the procurement officer and Mr Kagole Kivumbi, the accounting officer, to enable process payment for the purported delivery of the 444 copies of the handbooks.
On the third count of conspiracy to commit a felony, the state claims that Mr Kiiza and Mr Waiswa on June 19, 2015, at the same place conspired to forge the “goods-received” note in order to defraud JSC of Shs6m.

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