By CHIMPREPORTS
Former National Social Security Fund (NSSF) managing Director David Chandi Jamwa has expressed gratitude to President Museveni for granting him pardon.
Shortly after his release from Luzira prison, Chandi said he is grateful to Museveni for his kindness, sympathy and mercy, adding that the pardon came as a surprise to him and that he is only grateful for it.
“I am very grateful to the President Gen Yoweri Museveni for his benevolence, his kindness, sympathy and mercy. We continue thanking him,” he said.
Chandi is one of the prisoners that were pardoned by President Museveni on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, on ‘public health and humanitarian grounds’. Museveni, in his authority per article 121(4)(a) of the constitution, pardoned a total of 13 prisoners.
The former NSSF-Boss has been at Luzira Prison, serving a 12-year-sentence for causing financial loss to NSSF. Chandi was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2011 after causing a financial loss of about 3 billion to the national fund.
He was interdicted by the high court in 2011 on two counts of abuse of office and causing financial loss, and later acquitted of the former charge.
Jamwa was handed the sentence of financial loss by the then Anti-corruption Court, after being found guilty of selling NSSF treasury bonds to Crane Bank before maturity on October 4, 2007, resulting in the financial loss.
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