An employee of Internal Security Organization (ISO) has been remanded to Kitalya prison after confessing to issuing government stickers to unauthorized persons.
Stephen Ariongo Osikol, 52, was assigned to aid ministry of works and Transport in the distribution of Motor vehicle stickers to authorized persons and agencies during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Ariongo, who works as an events and promotions manager at ISO has been charged with breach of Trust by a person employed in public service .
The ISO employee together with his 3 Pakistani national accomplices to whom he unlawfully issued the stickers bearing that they were authorized personnel in the food distribution category who are allowed to drive vehicles in the current National wide lock down against Corona virus , were arraigned before Buganda Road court Grade one magistrate Dorothy Bagyenyi.
However, Ariongo explained to the magistrate that the Pakistani nationals who run a Restaurant , bar and a car bond presented to him a letter and other identifications showing that they are in food distribution business which was the basis for him to issue the contentious stickers on April 14, 2020.
Ariongo and the Pakistanis who have also pleaded guilty to charges of being in unlawful possession of government stores have been sent on remand at Kitalya prison until the May08, 2020 to be handed their respective sentences.
Last Saturday, police and its sister security agencies carried out an operation in which it arrested several people with illegally acquired COVID-19 stickers .
Credit: businessfocus.co.ug
