By Editorial,
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pardoned 13 convicts including the Ex-Managing Director of National Social Security Fund -NSSF who has been serving a 12-year jail term handed to him for causing government a financial loss of 3 billion shillings.
Others pardoned are Vincent Ntale and Nelson Drabo among others.
The convicts have been serving sentences ranging between three and 20 years imprisonment.
The Spokesperson of the Uganda Prison services, Frank Baine says they have already received the President’s letter pardoning the said convicts and that they are preparing to release them accordingly because the President has prerogative of mercy under the law. Mr. Jamwa has been serving a 12-year jail sentence for causing a financial loss to the National Social Security Fund after he was indicted by the High Court on two counts of abuse of office and causing financial loss contrary to the Anti-Corruption Act 2009. END
