Kazinda sentenced to five years in Prison.

Kazinda escorted by Prison warders and detectives after the sentence

Former Principal  Accountant in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Geoffrey Kazinda was on Wednesday sentenced to 5 years in Prison by the Anti-corruption Court sitting at Kololo.

Justice David Wangutusi read the sentence as 5 years for abuse of office, 2 years for forgery, 2 years for unlawful  possession of government stores, and 1 year for for making documents without Authority. All the sentences will be served concurrently.

The sentence come a week after Kazinda was found guilty of all 29 counts of fraud.

There has been growing pressure from Civil Society Organisations to the government over her failure to fight corruption. The activists say only those implicated in minor cases are sentenced while those implicated in huge corruption scandles are acquitted and left Scot free.