Rebecca Nassuna, the former Registrar with the Uganda nurses and mid-wives council has been charged before the Anti-corruption court with causing a loss of over Shs 1 billion in the procurement of the Nurses and mid-wives Gazette register of 2018.
Nassuna is also accused of having initiated the Procurement of Conference Services for the nursing school staff retreat without confirming the availability of funds.
Her co-accused persons went ahead to prepare PPDA forms after services had been rendered with signatures not from the service provider which was-Hotel Paradise of Nile Ltd; thus ending up presenting a fictitious evaluation report to the contracts committee.
Nassuna and Sseppuuya have appeared before Grade One Magistrate Albert Asiimwe and denied the charges; while Criminal Summons have been issued to Musinguzi Robert to appear in court on September 9th to answer to the same charges.
Prosecution’s states that Nassuna Rebecca, a 57 year old nursing officer together with two Ministry of Health Procurement Officers, Robert Musinguzi and Steven Sseppuuya flouted PPDA rules and Regulations when they spent the money in the said Procurement which was not in the approved budget of Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council.
The judge granted Nassuna a cash bail of Shs 5 million, together with her valid passport in court while Seppuuya has been ordered to deposit a Shs 3 million cash bail
