{UAH} Court orders arrest of magistrate over theft
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Posted Sunday, March 8 2015 at 02:00
IN SUMMARY
Charges. Ms Grace Balintuma, a Grade One magistrate in Moroto District, is charged with two counts of theft and two counts of meddling in property of a deceased person.
KAMPALA.
Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s Court has ordered an arrest of a magistrate accused of theft of more than Shs40 million belonging to UPDF soldiers.
Ms Grace Balintuma, a Grade One magistrate in Moroto District, is charged with two counts of theft and two counts of intermeddling in property of a deceased person contrary to the Administrator General’s Act.
This was the sixth time the court sat, expecting Ms Balintuma to appear and plead to the charges. The Chief Magistrate, Ms Lillian Bucyana, ordered the arrest after the State prosecutor, Ms Lillian Omara, submitted that Ms Balintuma had deliberately refused to appear in court.
The suspect is to be arrested and brought to court not later than March 30.
Prosecution contends that the accused committed the offences when she was a magistrate at Buganda Road Court about three years ago.
The prosecution states that on October 22, 2009, at Housing Finance Bank in Kampala, the accused magistrate, while working at the court, stole Shs32 million belonging to deceased Capt Charles Karemera. It is further stated that Ms Balintuma appropriated Capt Karemera’s property without authorisation of the Administrator General.
The charge sheet also states that the implicated magistrate, between November 2004 and June 2012 at Housing Finance Bank, meddled in the property of the late Lt Edmond Mujuni and on August 16, 2013 stole more than Shs14 million belonging to the deceased.
On November 24, 2014, the suspect petitioned the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to quash the charges against her.
However, the DPP refused to yield and instead issued an order for court to proceed and hear her case because there was sufficient evidence to support the charges.
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