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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Jailed former NSSF MD David Chandi Jamwa on Wednesday filed an appeal before the Supreme Court challenging his 12 year jail term.
On Monday this week , the Court of Appeal cancelled Jamwa’s bail and returned him to Luzira prison to start on the journey of serving his 12 year sentence that was handed down to him in 2011 by the Anti-Corruption court for causing NSSF a sh3.1bn loss.
Jamwa was found guilty of abusing his authority as NSSF MD when he sold off pre-mature NSSF bonds to Crane Bank in 2007 which caused a sh3 .1 bn loss to the fund. Jamwa who has been out on bail since 2011 still maintains no loss was caused to the fund because he re-invested the money from the sold bonds from which NSSF is reaping profits.
In the notice of appeal lodged in the Supreme Court’s criminal registry, Jamwa through his lawyer David Mpanga notifies court that he is dissatisfied with the decision of Justices Rubby Opio Aweri and Kenneth Kakuru of upholding the lower court finding.
In the notice of appeal, Jamwa says he is also aggrieved with the two justices’ decision of convicting him of abuse of office and sentencing him to serve four years imprisonment, yet the lower court had acquitted him of this charge.
