{"id":18397,"date":"2020-09-12T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=18397"},"modified":"2020-09-12T20:01:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T17:01:37","slug":"microfinance-support-centre-bosses-accused-of-stealing-shs10billion-granted-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/12\/microfinance-support-centre-bosses-accused-of-stealing-shs10billion-granted-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Microfinance Support Centre Bosses Accused Of Stealing Shs10billion Granted Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four top Microfinance support centre (MSC) bosses who are accused of stealing teachers\u2019 SACCO money worth Shs10billion have been granted bail, Ug Mirror reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anti-Corruption Court granted a Shs30million cash bail to John Peter Mujuni, Executive Director of MSC, John Mwebembezi, the head of finance and administration, Joan Asiimwe Baryaruha, a teacher, and Julia Birungi, a lawyer and the assistant credit officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their sureties were given a non-cash bond of Shs500m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grade One Magistrate, Moses Nabende also directed the accused to deposit in court their passports and were also instructed not to go to their workplaces since investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecution alleges that Mujuni, Mwebembezi and Birungi between November 2019 and August 2020,<a href=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/07\/micro-finance-support-centre-swindles-teachers-money-worth-shs10bn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> stole Shs10.8billion<\/a> in installments which was part of the Shs22billion grant from the President, meant for the teachers\u2019 loan fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teachers from all walks of life were in court and they objected to the Magistrates decision of giving the suspects bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four top Microfinance support centre (MSC) bosses who are accused of stealing teachers\u2019 SACCO money worth Shs10billion have been granted bail, Ug Mirror reports. Anti-Corruption Court granted a Shs30million cash bail to John Peter Mujuni, Executive Director of MSC, John Mwebembezi, the head of finance and administration, Joan Asiimwe Baryaruha, a teacher, and Julia Birungi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":18398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[31,2141,2142],"class_list":["post-18397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured","tag-microfinance-support-centre","tag-teachers-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18399,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions\/18399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}