Retired Lt-Gen. Oketcho jailed over sh66m debt

A retired Lt. Gen who claims that the UPDF has not yet paid his retirement benefits has been committed to Luzira Civil Prison over an accumulated debt of sh66.7m.

Lt. Gen. Fredrick Oketcho borrowed the money from a one Hadijja Kyakuwa in April 2013 with promises to pay it within one month's period but he failed until on Thursday when he was arrested by bailiffs from Alpha auctioneers while having lunch at Golf Course hotel.

The bailiffs whisked him to the Bailiffs and Execution Division of the High Court where Deputy Registrar, Muse Musimbi committed him to 6-months -jail term for failure to clear the said loan.

"You are hereby commanded, and required to take and receive the said, into Civil prison and keep Oketcho imprisoned therein for a period not exceeding six months or until the said sum (sh66.7m) has been fully settled," Musimbi directed.

He said Oketcho shall be entitled to be released according to the terms and provisions of Section 43 of the Civil Procedure Act. The court fixed sh3000 per diem (pay) as the rate of the daily allowances for the subsistence of Oketcho during his confinement under the warrant of committal.