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Man remanded at Buganda Road court over a forged presidential letter appointing a Uganda Railways MD

Corruption & Abuse of Office Single source Kampala Feb 2026 (day not reported) Severity: 1/5

The Buganda Road Chief Magistrate's Court remanded a man until 9 March 2026 on charges of forgery, uttering a false document and obtaining money by false pretence, according to the State House Anti-Corruption Unit. Prosecutors allege that he and an accomplice still at large produced a letter dated 4 December 2024, falsely presented as signed by President Museveni, appointing a man as Managing Director of the Uganda Railways Corporation, and took over Shs20 million from that man.

Single source: Reported by one outlet; not yet independently confirmed.

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