Fort Portal Deputy City Clerk and three other civil servants have been remanded over forgery and falsification of appointment letters.
Mr. Richard Agaba, the deputy town clerk, Ben Mutooro Musinguzi, the records assistant; Suzan Kyomuhendo, secretary to the city service commission and Sylvia Kihunde, an internal auditor, were remanded to Katojo Government Prison in Fort Portal until August 14.
“The State House Anti-Corruption Unit working together with the Police have arraigned four officials of Fort portal city before the Chief Magistrates Court in Fort Portal for abusing their offices by forging official documents (appointment letters), the State House Anti-Corruption Unit said in a statement.
They are facing charges of forgery of official documents, conspiracy to commit a felony, and falsification of a register entry in the dispatch register of appointment letters.
They were arrested on Monday by State House Anti-Corruption in Kampala, where they had been summoned.
“The Officials are Kagaba Richard Ndora, the acting deputy Town Clerk, Kyomuhendo Susan, a Senior Assistant Secretary, Kihunde Sylvia, an Internal Auditor and Ben Mutooro Musinguzi, an office assistant also assigned assistant records officer,” the statement added.
Court heard that in July 2023, the accused without clearance from Public Service forged and issued appointment letters to 23 applicants, which were backdated to 29th June to defeat a circular dated 30th June 2023, by the Ministry of Public Service which halted all recruitments without clearance.
There are several circulars that had earlier been issued by the Ministry of Public Service and Public Service Commission guiding on the irregular recruitment, which the suspects disregarded.
They have been remanded until 14th August 2023.
