The Anti-Corruption Court in Kololo presided over by Chief Magistrate Joan Aciro has remanded the Minister for Karamoja affairs Mary Gorreti Kitutu and her brother Michael Kitutu Naboya to Luzira over corruption related charges.
Kitutu who is also the Woman Member of Parliament for Manafwa was arraigned before the Anti-Corruption Court in Kololo over mismanagement of Karamoja relief items.
Kitutu and her brother, Naboya appeared before Chief Magistrate Joan Aciro and denied the allegations that were preferred against them by the prosecution.
The two were charged alongside Joshua Abaho (minister Kitutu’s senior assistant secretary) who was not physically produced in court.
The trio has been charged with six counts of; loss of public property, corruption, receiving stolen property, and conspiracy to defraud.
According to prosecution, the group between June 2022 and January 2023 at the Office of the Prime Minister stores caused loss of public property in the form of 9000 iron sheets by diverting them from the intended purpose of benefiting the Karamoja community to their own benefit.
It is further alleged that the minister alongside her secretary between June 2022 and January 2023 caused the loss of 5,500 iron sheets meant for Karamoja.
Efforts by the minister and her brother to seek bail were futile as the state objected noting that the sureties brought to court were unsubstantive which Chief Magistrate Aciro agreed to and remanded them until 12th April 2023.
