By Ben Musanje
28th Aug 2023
President Yoweri Museveni has in exercise of the powers given to the president of Uganda by the constitution pardoned former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service, Jimmy Lwamafa who has been serving a seven year jail term over the pension scam.
Rwamafa has been serving a seven year jail term over a pension scam.
Frank Baine, the Uganda Prisons spokesperson, Frank Baine says Lwamafa was among the 200 beneficiaries of the presidential pardon from the 1800 names that were submitted to the president by the prerogative of the mercy committee.
Lwamafa was sentenced together with Christopher Obey, the former Principal Accountant in the Pensions Department, Stephen Kiwanuka Kunsa, the former Director Research and Development and city lawyer Bob Kasango who had earlier been convicted of a number of charges ranging from conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to commit a felony and forgery of judicial documents by the Anti Corruption Court.
Baine, the Uganda Prisons Service spokesperson, Lwamafa and other prisoners were pardoned on public health and humanitarian grounds.
He says that Lwamafa is among the elderly and has not been so well but most importantly, he has also put his life to work for this country for many years and on humanitarian grounds he qualifies for the pardon.
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