The first technocrat in the Karamoja iron sheets saga Mr Joshua Abaho (46) who also acts as a senior assistant secretary at the ministry of Karamoja Affairs under the office of the prime minister was yesterday arraigned before court and sent behind the Luzira prison gates charged on two counts of corruption and one count of conspiracy to defraud.
He was the the only suspect in the case filed along side Karamoja minister Goretti Kitutu and her brother Mr Micheal Naboya Kitutu who hadn’t been formally charged before the court despite being indicted at the same time.
He had claimed not to have been served with the court criminal summons and that he was also nursing his sick wife who had a miscarriage at the time of charging his co accused.
While presiding over the case chief magistrate Joan Aciro stood over the matter and in the meantime sent Mr Abaho to prison till Tuesday when when delivering her ruling.
Under the charge of conspiracy to defraud its prosecution’s case that minister Kitutu and the first technocrat between June 2022 and January 2023 allegedly conspired to defraud beneficiaries under the Karamoja community program of 9000 per painted iron sheets.