{"id":14361,"date":"2011-12-15T15:53:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/uganda-court-acquits-ex-vp-on-corruption-charges\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:53:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:53:50","slug":"uganda-court-acquits-ex-vp-on-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/15\/uganda-court-acquits-ex-vp-on-corruption-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Court Acquits Ex-VP on Corruption Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/newvision180.jpg\" alt=\"New Vision (Kampala)\" title=\"Visit New Vision (Kampala)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anne Mugisa and Edward Anyoli<\/p>\n<p>15 December 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Kampala \u2014 The Anti-Corruption Court has acquitted ex-Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya of all charges related to the CHOGM scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Paul Mugamba on Thursday morning ruled that there was no sufficient evidence that Bukenya used his office to influence the award of a Sh9.4 billion tender to Motor Care to supply 204 executive vehicles for the commonwealth summit in Kampala in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Bukenya was jointly charged with Motorcare Uganda, a limited liability company. Per Lundgren and Klaus Karstensen both Danish nationals represented Motorcare in Court<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the IGG withdrew another CHOGM related against Bukenya where he was accused of causing a financial loss to the government.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution alleged that Bukenya being a person employed as Vice President and chairman of the CHOGM Cabinet subcommittee, between July 2006 and November 2007, unlawfully and high handedly in abuse of his office, influenced and directed the award of a contract for supply of 80 units of BMWs for CHOGM, to Motorcare in total disregard of the regulations governing public procurement.<\/p>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Anne Mugisa and Edward Anyoli 15 December 2011 Kampala \u2014 The Anti-Corruption Court has acquitted ex-Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya of all charges related to the CHOGM scandal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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