Kole accounts officer held over fraud
Sep 23, 2011
A senior accounts assistant with Kole district, Jonan Ogwang, 46, has been re-arrested and charged with eight counts that include embezzlement, causing financial loss, forgery and uttering false documents.
By PATRICK OKINO
A senior accounts assistant with Kole district, Jonan Ogwang, 46, has been re-arrested and charged with eight counts that include embezzlement, causing financial loss, forgery and uttering false documents.
Ogwang was picked from Kole on Tuesday for allegedly forging and altering cheques and withdrawing sh89mmeant for the National Agricultural Advisory Services for personal use.
He was earlier on June 24 this year arrested and charged with theft before the Lira chief magistrate Gabriel Nyipir after fraudulent withdrawals of sh40.8m on March 22 and sh40.2m on April 13 from the NAADS account in Stanbic Bank, Lira branch.
Ogwang denied the charges and was later released on a cash bail of sh1.2m. His two sureties Wilfred Okello and Kenneth Ayeni were bonded at sh89m each, not cash.
The central-north regional Police spokesman, Henry Alyanga, told New Vision on Tuesday that Ogwang`s file was forwarded to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
“The case took long because the DPP was still going through the files. But he (Ogwang) has been arrested and taken to Kampala,†Alyanga said.
He said Ogwang was transported to Kampala to answer the charges before the Anti-Corruption court.
Alyang warned civil servants against squandering public resources.
A senior accounts assistant with Kole district, Jonan Ogwang, 46, has been re-arrested and charged with eight counts that include embezzlement, causing financial loss, forgery and uttering false documents.
Ogwang was picked from Kole on Tuesday for allegedly forging and altering cheques and withdrawing sh89mmeant for the National Agricultural Advisory Services for personal use.
He was earlier on June 24 this year arrested and charged with theft before the Lira chief magistrate Gabriel Nyipir after fraudulent withdrawals of sh40.8m on March 22 and sh40.2m on April 13 from the NAADS account in Stanbic Bank, Lira branch.
Ogwang denied the charges and was later released on a cash bail of sh1.2m. His two sureties Wilfred Okello and Kenneth Ayeni were bonded at sh89m each, not cash.
The central-north regional Police spokesman, Henry Alyanga, told New Vision on Tuesday that Ogwang`s file was forwarded to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
“The case took long because the DPP was still going through the files. But he (Ogwang) has been arrested and taken to Kampala,†Alyanga said.
He said Ogwang was transported to Kampala to answer the charges before the Anti-Corruption court.
Alyang warned civil servants against squandering public resources.