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The court has adjourned to February 2024 for further hearing of the trial against state minister Amos Lugoloobi in the Karamoja iron sheet case.

The case had come up on Monday for hearing more witnesses, however, trial judge Margret Tibulya was absent causing an adjournment.

Deputy Court registrar Stella Anguzu adjourned the matter to February 12, 2024, to hear more prosecution witnesses.

This case was last heard on November 10, 2023, with the seventh prosecution witness who together with a team of Police officers, searched for three crime scenes of allegedly stolen Karamoja iron sheets in a case of dealing with government property against the finance state minister Amos Lugoloobi.

The officers told the court that in February 2023, they went to Misanga village, Bbale parish in Kayunga district at the accused minister's farm and recovered 326 OPM branded iron sheets including the ones that were used and unused.

The Police officers were testifying in a case in which Minister Amos Lugoloobi also Member of Parliament for Ntenjeru North in Kayunga, is accused of dealing with government Property, a total of 700 pre-painted iron sheets marked 'Office of the Prime Minister gauge 28'.

The diverted Iron Sheets were meant for the Karamojong Community Empowerment Programme in June/2022.