NSSF: Jamwa''s appeal hearing pushed to Oct 10

Sep 18, 2014

The hearing of the appeal in which former NSSF managing director David Chandi Jamwa is challenging his conviction and the sentence of 12 years imprisonment was on Thursday delayed until October 10.


By Hillary Nsambu

KAMPALA - The hearing of the appeal in which former NSSF managing director David Chandi Jamwa is challenging his conviction and the sentence of 12 years imprisonment was on Thursday delayed until October 10.
 
Justice Kenneth Kakuru told the parties that the hearing of the case could not take place because Acting Chief Justice Steven Kavuma who is one of the members of the panel was indisposed.
 
Meanwhile, city lawyer David Mpanga who represents Jamwa applied to the court to have copies of a number of documents, which he said were of crucial evidential value, which they would want to read, but; which were not on the court record, yet the prosecution used them during the trial of his client.
 
Mpanga also mentioned that the prosecution relied on the documents he was talking about against Jamwa in the Anti-Corruption Court. 
 
Senior State Attorney Rogers Kinobe who represented the IGG did not oppose the application for the documents.
 
Justice Kakuru directed that the file of Jamwa be sent back to the court registrar for him to re-fix the hearing date of the appeal and to ensure that all the necessary documents were put on it for purposes of keeping the proper record.
 
Jamwa who is on bail pending the hearing of his appeal was tried and convicted of causing financial loss of a total of sh3b.
 
Consequently, the court sentenced him to 12 years imprisonment. He was also barred from assuming any public office for 10 years of his life.
 
However, now-retired High Court Justice John Bosco Abubakar Katutsi, who presided over the trial court then, cleared Jamwa of the offence of abuse of office.
 
Nonetheless, Jamwa appealed seeking to quash the conviction and the sentence.
 
He is challenging the conviction and the sentences, contending that the trial judge made a mistake to convict him on the offence of causing financial loss.
 
The ex-NSSF boss has also failed to evaluate the whole evidence and as such applied a test of unknown law.    

 
FLASHBACK . . .
 
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Then-NSSF managing director David Jamwa shakes hands with his then-deputy Prof. Mondo Kagonyera during a cocktail reception at the Kampala Sheraton hotel early 2006. Prof. Kagonyera is currently Makerere University's chancellor. PHOTO/Arthur Kintu
 
 
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Here, Jamwa, appearing before a parliamentary committee in 2008, displays an artistic impression of the new NSSF complex to be constructed in a newly purchased new land. PHOTO/Rogers Okwany
 
 
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Here, Jamwa has a chat with his father at the Anti-Corruption Court, Kololo in December 2010. PHOTO/Ayiga Ondoga
 
 
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Former NSSF boss David Chandi Jamwa consults his lawyer David Mpanga before he was sentenced to 12 years for causing government a financial loss of sh3bn. PHOTO/Abou Kisige
 
 
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This 2011 photo shows Jamwa's relatives following court proceedings as their ahead of his sentencing for causing financial loss to the government. PHOTO/Abou Kisige
 
 
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