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By Our Reporter
MOROTO
As police intensifies crackdown on theft and mismanagement of Parish Development Model (PDM) funds in line with President Museveni’s directive during the recently concluded regional tours, a Treasurer of a PDM SACCO has been remanded to Moroto Government Prison.
According to a Police statement dated Monday, 25th November, 2024, Moru Joyce, a 52-year-old Treasurer of a SACCO, exploited 84 year old Ateko Teresa’s advanced age to defraud her.
ACP Rusoke says in the statement that on November 18, 2024, police in Moroto received a report from Ateko Teresa, a resident of Natumkasikou Village in Rupa Sub County, Moroto District.
The complaint alleges that Moru deceived her into applying for PDM funds. Moru is accused of taking the victim for SIM card registration and filling out PDM forms in the victim’s name.
Although money was disbursed to the victim, the suspect allegedly withdrew one million shillings (Ugx 1,000,000) and only provided the victim with one hundred thousand shillings (Ugx 100,000), returning her national identification card without disclosing the origin of the funds she gave.
Moru appeared before Moroto Magistrate’s court on November 22, 2024 and was remanded to Moroto government prisons.
Meanwhile, o November 21, 2024 in Amudat, police and other security agencies interested themselves into the PDM funds and found that the Parish Chiefs of Lokales in Amudat allegedly deleted names deserving beneficiaries and replaced them with those that are not eligible for the fund.
Police apprehended four (04) suspects in line with the investigations.
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