{UAH} Gen Oketcho arrested over Shs55m debt - probably the only General from Tororo!
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Gen Oketcho arrested over Shs55m debt - National
Kampala. By press time yesterday, a three-star army general was still under the watchful eye of court bailiffs who had arrested him earlier in the day for failing to clear a Shs55 million loan he acquired from a friend.
Lt Gen Fredrick Oketcho was arrested by court bailiffs of Waka Associates from the NRM Secretariat in Kampala at around mid-day.
He was then taken to the Bailiffs and Executions Division of the High Court to be committed to Luzira Civil prison for failure to clear the said loan.
Lt Gen Oketcho had obtained the loan from Ms Hadija Kyakuwa, a Kampala businesswoman, in 2014 for purposes of ejecting it into his business.
According to Ms Kyakuwa, she did not have the money at the time when Gen Oketcho asked her for assistance but she instead, went to Housing Finance Bank and acquired a loan.
Ms Kyakuwa added that as security, the soldier gave her some cheques equivalent to the loan obtained but the cheques later bounced upon being cashed.
To that effect, she then opened a case against him before Nakawa Court in July 2015. The court decided the case in her favour and ordered Gen Oketcho to pay the loan.
A teary Kyakuwa told Daily Monitor that her residential house that she used as security is under threat of being taken over by the bank, explaining that she struggles to pay the monthly remittance of over Shs2.5m.
She showed this reporter scars and metals that were fixed in her legs following injuries she sustained while abroad doing casual work popularly known as kyeyo. Ms Kyakuwa's lawyer Sam Kabanda, told Daily Monitor that despite several reminders, Gen Oketcho has been playing 'hide and seek' games in an attempt to avoid paying the loan.
It's against this backdrop that the Executions Division of the High Court was petitioned to compel Gen Oketcho to pay the debt or be sent to Luzira prison.
While under the watchful eye of the court bailiffs awaiting at the registrar of the court to sign on the committal papers, Gen Oketcho admitted to having obtained the loan from Ms Kyakuwa and said he was willing to pay.
He explained that he had been let down by the Defence ministry which he said he had supplied with building materials which they failed to pay for.
Gen Oketch also said he has not received his gratuity since he retired from the army a few months back, which he would have used to clear the debt.
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