The Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lira has sentenced six women to 12 months imprisonment for stealing government murram.
On Thursday, the court found that the accused persons, all residents of Yat-amenya Village, Akura Sub-county in Alebtong District were involved in stealing murram on Alebtong- Lira road worth Shs28 million.
The stolen murram would then be sold to produce dealers for mixing cereals in order to cheat buyers through weighing fake kilograms.
Prosecution asserted that the women committed the offence at Yat-amenya in Akura Sub-county along the Alebtong – Lira central government road between 2017 and August 2021.
The convicts are Stella Arao, Jennifer Apio, Nancy Apong, Ms Connie Abeja, Janet Acen and Caroline Akullu.
They were arrested by police from Alebtong Central Police Station (CPS) on Wednesday.
Their arrest follows a theft complaint lodged by the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) Station Manager for Lango region, Eng Anthony Okucu, on May 7, 2021.
