State Minister for Karamoja affairs- Ms. Agnes Nandutu has today appeared in the Anti- corruption court in Kololo where she has applied for bail. Ms. Nandutu was charged over the iron sheets saga on the 19th of April, 2023 and has been on remand in Luzira prison since then; Charged with suspect property in connection to the Karamoja iron sheets saga.

Ms. Nandutu intends to line up several sureties that include Mr Godfrey Baluku Kabbyanga Kiime, the State minister for National Guidance, Mr Isaac Katenya, the MP for Bulambuli District, and Mr Gerald Nangoli, the MP for Elgon North constituency.

Its prosecution’s case that Ms. Nandutu between June and July 2022, at the Office of the Prime Minister’s stores in Namanve, and in Kkola Cell, Bulwanyi Parish, Mukono District, dealt with government property to which 2,000 pre-painted iron sheets of gauge 28 marked office of the Prime Minister.

The DPP further claimed the Minister received the iron sheets that were acquired as a result of the loss of public property, an offense under Section 10 (1) of the Anti-Corruption Act 2009 as amended.

The Buduuda woman MP will be the third minister to face criminal charges and proceedings in line with the Karamoja iron sheets scandal.

The others are Ms Mary Goretti Kitutu (Karamoja Affairs) and Amos Lugoloobi (State Minister for Finance, Planning, and Economic Development).

Courtesy photo.