Caroline Kembabazi, 31 a Private Secretary to President Yoweri Museveni has been sent to jail on remand for fraud.
Kembabazi a resident of Kireka in Kiira Division of Wakiso District threatened and pressurized EC Human resource senior staff over employing her relatives.
Buganda Road Magistrates Court has remanded Kembabazi this afternoon on charges of giving false information to officials of the Electoral Commission.
Kembabazi had appeared before Grade One Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu who read to her the charges.
The Prosecution alleges that between November and December 2020 at the Electoral Commission headquarters in Kampala Kembabazi manipulated the Human Resource Officers there, into believing that Museveni had given her the mandate ordering them to deploy to three of her relatives.
She asked that her relatives including Kenneth Magezi, Duncan Muramuzi, and Elia Abomeire be employed as Assistant District Registrars
However, Kembabazi denied the charges, Court also rejected her bail application because of time.
Kamasanyu, therefore, remanded Kembabazi up to January 6 2021 when the hearing will commence.
It is alleged that Kembabazi verbally gave directives after she had personally stormed the offices and threatened to take action against the Human Resource Officers if they failed to abide by the instructions she had got from the fountain of honor.
As a result, the detectives attached to Lt Col Edith Nakalema’s led State House Anti Corruption Unit went to EC offices from where they reportedly found Kembabazi grilling the Human Resource Officers.
