Schools Inspector and businessman charged with fraud, remanded to Luzira
The accused are businessman Ambrose Okot , 42, alias William Musinguzi, and inspector of schools Tom Ronald Omara, 45.
The accused persons in the dock at City Hall Court. Pictures by Barbra Kabahumuza
A Lira City schools inspector and a businessman have been remanded to Luzira Prison after denying charges of conspiracy to commit a felony, obtaining money by false pretence and personation involving a total of sh4 million.
The accused are businessman Ambrose Okot , 42, alias William Musinguzi, and inspector of schools Tom Ronald Omara, 45.
They appeared before Senior Magistrate Edgar Karakire at City Hall Court in Kampala on Friday (October 16) and denied the charges.
According to the charge sheet, the two allegedly conspired in June 2026, within Kampala and other areas of Uganda, to obtain money by false pretence.
Okot is accused of obtaining sh500,000 from Sammy Bobby Okino at Mulago Cancer Institute in Kampala, allegedly claiming that he would clear him of cases relating to the alleged exaggeration of student numbers at Lango College.
He is also accused of obtaining sh1.5 million from Moses Ayindi at Kigowa, Ntinda, Kampala, allegedly by falsely claiming that he would facilitate the transfer of Ayindi’s relative to another place.
The charge sheet further alleges that Okot and Omara obtained sh2 million from Leonard Omara in Lira City, falsely claiming that they would pay for the registration of private Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) candidates as Universal Primary Education (UPE) candidates at Olaka Child Care Primary School.
Okot is separately charged with personation. The prosecution alleges that he falsely represented himself to Leonard Omara as a legal officer of the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) to obtain the sh2 million.
The accused face charges of conspiracy to commit a felony, contrary to Section 363 of the Penal Code Act, obtaining money by false pretence, contrary to Section 285, and personation, contrary to Section 354.
State prosecutor Benjamin Mwesigwa told court that investigations are ongoing and that the prosecution team was verifying mobile money transactions and bank statements to establish details of the alleged payments.
He asked for an adjournment to allow investigators to complete the inquiries.
Representing the accused men, lawyer Andrew Omara told court that he had received instructions late and asked for the case to be adjourned to the earliest possible date to enable him to apply for bail on behalf of his clients.
The case was adjourned until October 30, 2026 and Karakire remanded the accused to Luzira Prison until then.