Court of Appeal has this morning sent David Chandi Jamwa, former Managing Director NSSF back to the coolers after throwing out his application to have his 12 year jail sentence set aside.
Mr Jamwa was found guilty of selling National Social Security Fund (NSSF) bonds to the now defunct Crane Bank before their maturity date which caused financial loss to the fund to the tune of Shs3.1billion
He appealed the ruling challenging the late Anti-Corruption Court Judge John Bosco’s Katutsi’s judgment, where he convicted him of causing financial loss and abuse office. Justice Katutsi also banned Jamwa for 10 years from holding any public office.
However, the appellant judges, Kenneth Kakuru and Opiyo Aweri, today agreed with the late Katusti saying that he properly evaluated and reached the right decision and conclusion in convicting the troubled former NSSF Managing Director.
The two judges observed that Jamwa as well aware that selling government treasury bonds to Crane bank before their maturity date would cause financial loss to NSSF but instead insisted on authorizing the sale. They actually added another four years for abuse of office, which sentences are supposed to be served concurrently.
It was only Justice Steven Kavuma who dissented with his colleagues.
Important to note is that since Mr Jamwa has been out on bail for seven years since 2011, Mr Jamwa will only serve 5 years in jail since bail time is also considered to be part of the sentence.

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Uganda Law Society has petitioned the Constitutional Court challenging the just enacted Age limit act.
ULS through its president Francis Gimara President has today petitioned Constitutional Court reasoning that the extension of parliament and local councils to seven years was unconstitutional.
Hardly a week after it was controversially passed by parliament, President Yoweri Museveni signed the bill into an Act last December. The Act gives a president room to rule until he feels he tired.
In December last year 317 legislators voted for amendment as 97 voted against the expunging of both the lower and upper presidential age limit that was capped at 35 and 75 years and increasing their terms in office from five to seven years and reinstating term limits that were removed by the seventh parliament in 2005.
‘’Article (8) which is yet to become an act extending legislators term in offices to two years which is inconsistent with and contravenes with article one which vests powers in hands of Ugandans, article 77(4) and 96 of the constitution’’. Part of the petition reads.
The Attorney General is yet come to challenge the petition to answer all circumstances surrounding the process of enacting age limit law, petitioners wants the law be annulled on grounds that the process of enacting the bill was marred with violence, assault of legislators, storming of Special Forces Command (SFC) in parliamentary chambers and violations of human rights which among others contradicts with parliamentary rules and procedures.
The petitioners contend that by this law the Electoral Commission will be required to organize separate elections of both legislators and the president due to unconstitutional divergence form from the usual five years of legislators to seven.

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As a way of improving power reliability and quality of supply in the Western region, Umeme has invested about US$1,470,000 in the construction and improvement of the Ishaka substation.
Last weekend, Umeme commissioned the Ishaka substation with focus on restoration and expansion of the grid, reduction in energy losses, improvements in efficiencies, connections of new customers to the grid, improving service delivery, reliability of supply and public safety.
Being completely an outdoor substation, it has a 5MVA power transformer, with two 33kV incomer Interconnectors from Mbarara North and Nkenda Substations.

There is also a one 33 kV outgoing interconnector to Rukungiri Substation, Kanungu, Ferdsult and finally to Ishasha generation plant. With 11kV outgoing line that splits into two after leaving the substation to feed Ishaka town and Tea estates 11 kV feeders.
Previous the substation posed several challenges ranging from reliability issues, operating issues, safety concerns and maintenance challenges.

Therefore, Umeme re-design the substation to allow future expansion, constructed a plant control house at the substation to house the switchgear, metering equipment, DC system and SCADA, install indoor switchgear for both 33kV and 11Kv, installed AC and DC auxiliary systems and laid underground cables to decongest the substation
The substation will be monitored by SCADA an intelligence network watchdog. This will help in detecting faults on the network and help in quick supply restoration, reduction in outages, Automated Meter Reading (AMR) for large consumer users, e-bills and SMS bills, all of which have offered customers a new lot of customer experience by giving them the power to manage and control their consumption and bills.
The benefits of these investment is evidenced by improved system reliability, network reliability, improved safety, reduction in energy losses, increased customer connections and the deployment of technological innovations thus offering new customer experience

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