The former
Minister for special duties in the Office of Omusinga and envoy to state house,
Erisania Cameroon Isingoma has been arrested over fraud.
The Deputy Officer in Charge of Criminal Investigations
at the Kasese Central Police Station Edward Tibemanya confirmed the arrest
adding that Isingoma was picked at around 3pm from Kasese town.
Tibemanya said that Isingoma was not allowed to make
a statement from Kasese and by press time he was being transferred to the
Criminal Investigations headquarters in Kibuli, Kampala.
Isingoma was sacked by Omusinga Charles Wesley
Mumbere Iremangoma in December last year following information that he
embezzled over thirty million shillings from State House.
Isingoma is said to have received over fifty million
shillings in cash from state house but delivered only twenty for the Omusinga’s
treatment abroad.
The Omusinga then gave him a week’s ultimatum to
have refunded the thirty million shillings he had embezzled but up to now no
refund has been received.
The Kasese Resident District Commissioner Milton
Odongo said he was happy Isingoma has been arrested because his acts were
threatening the good relationship between the Obusinga and State House.
Odongo warned that people should not hide in the NRM
like Isingoma with an aim of stealing funds given to them for different
purposes.
