The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will not appeal against what seems a lenient sentence the Anti Corruption Court handed to runaway former State minister for Labour Herbert Kabafunzaki.
On Friday, Justice Margaret Tibulya found Kabafunzaki guilty of receiving a Shs5m bribe from the Aya Group chairman, Mohammed Mohammed Hamid.
The kickback was in exchange of clearing his name in the media of sexual harassment allegations that had been brought against him by one of his female Hilton Hotel employees.
Kabafunzaki was arrested in full view of cameras on April 8th, 2017.
The judge, who sentenced Kabafunzaki in absentia after he had reportedly disappeared, ordered him to pay a Shs10m fine or in default, serve three years in jail.
Irene Nakibungwe, the deputy spokesperson of the office of the DPP, said shortly after the verdict that the office of the DPP cannot appeal against a sentence explaining that the law specifically bars the DPP from appealing against a conviction and sentence, however unfair it may seem.
