The Former Managing Director of National Social Security Fun, David Chandi Jamwa will no longer have to testify in Parliament to respond to a number of queries that were raised in the Auditor’s General’s Forensic Report on NSSF after his lawyers have successfully challenged his testifying in parliament as an infringement of his rights.
David Chandi Jamwa
Jamwa was earlier this week released on bail after he was charged with various corruption related crimes in the corruption court.
One of the lawyers, David Mpanga has told the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions of Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises that his client has cases to answer in the anti corruption court as a result of his work as the MD of NSSF and it would be unfair that he should be forced to testify in parliament in relation to queries in the forensic that also arise from some of the things he did as the Managing Director of NSSF.
Though article 90(3) of the constitution empowers a committee parliament to summon anybody to appear before it to testify before it however Section 60 of the Parliamentary Procedure and Rules Act says that in case a person has been charged in the High Court as result of similar circumstance which Parliament wants him to testify about that person if it is in his interest will be excused from testifying in parliament.
The Speaker of Uganda Parliament, Edward Ssekandi says it is not right that Jamwa should continue testifying in a committee of Parliament on aspects related when he is already facing charges in Court that result from his tenure of office in NSSF.
By Zacharia Tiberindwa, Ultimate Media