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KAMPALA - The hearing of a case in which Karamoja affairs state minister Agnes Nandutu is accused of diverting iron sheets meant for the Karamoja sub-region resumes on Monday with a senior police officer set to testify in the matter.

The Assistant Commissioner of Police, Andrew Mubiru is on March 18, 2024, expected to submit in court evidence pinning Nandutu of the crime.

He is expected to tender in court the scene of crime report indicating how many iron sheets police officers recovered from Nandutu’s farm, located in Mukono district.

The case is being heard by Justice Jane Okuo Kajuga of the Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala.

On January 18, 2024, Senior Superintendent of Police Charles Babweteera told the court that they recovered 1617 pre-coated iron sheets of gauge 28 marked Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) Uganda from Nandutu’s farm.

Nandutu, who is also the Bududa district Woman MP, is being represented by lawyers Evans Ochieng, Charles Nandaah Wamukoota, and John Nalela while the state by Chief State Prosecutor David Bisamunyu.

The legislator is battling charges of dealing with suspect property, contrary to section 21A (1) of the Anti-Corruption Act. If found guilty, Nandutu could be sentenced to seven years in prison.

Prosecution alleges that Nandutu between the months of June and July 2022, at the OPM stores in Namanve, and in Kkola Cell, Bulwanyi Parish, Mukono district, dealt with government property, namely, 2000 pre-painted iron sheets of gauge 28 marked “Office of the Prime Minister”, by receiving and holding the items, which she had reason to believe were acquired as a result of loss of public property, an offence under Section 10 (1) of the Anti-Corruption Act 2009.