By Stanley Ebele
Kotido Chief Magistrate’s Court, has remanded to prison-two of the four suspects arrested over allegations of mismanaging unspecified amount of Emyoogo funds sent to the district in 2019.
Daniel Lowot, the Kotido Municipal Council commercial Officer, and Tadeo Muria, the former Kotido District commercial officer, were on Wednesday afternoon remanded on charges of obtaining money by false presence.
On Friday last week, police arrested the duo, alongside two leaders of Jie County Performers Association; Hassan Teko and Alice Nakiru, following a General Enquiry filed by the Kotido Resident District Commissioner, Charles Ichogor, on the dissemination of Emyooga money to intended beneficiaries or associations in the whole district.
On Tuesday, this week, the Kotido Assistant Resident District Commissioner, Peter Abrahams Lokwi, implied that the preliminary investigations point to ‘gross mismanagement’ of the program by the people entrusted to manage it.
In the remand sermon sent from Kampala this afternoon, and signed by the Kotido Chief Magistrate, Her Worship, Eunice Akullu, the two accused persons were accordingly remanded to Kotido Government Prison, until Monday 2, December 2024, when the matter will come up for confirmation of the charges.
According to the Charges named in the remand order, Lowot and Muria, are accused of obtaining money by false pretense in their capacity as the Commercial Officers.
Moments before the suspects were committed to remand, friends and relatives, assembled at the court premises in anticipation of an open court session, but their hope collapsed when the Court clerk, only read the remand sermon to a crop of prison wardens – who then picked off the accused from the cell, and marched them straight to the prison.
