Bugweri county MP Abdu Katuntu has called for the abolition of bail money paid by criminal suspects saying the trend is being abused by some officials in the judiciary.

Katuntu says the courts should use other things such as securities because bail money has in several occasional not been accounted for by the judiciary.

Katuntu a Kampala based lawyer says the processes of recovering the money once the case is disposed off is long because some suspects lose documents or they get misplaced in court.

He made the remarks while meeting the officials of the Uganda judicial commission during the debate of their budgetary allocation in the parliamentary committee on legal and parliamentary affairs.

By Mugisa Isaac Mathias