IGG Withdraws From Kazinda Asset Confiscation Case at EACJ

The Inspectorate of Government has withdrawn  all its pending  applications   

that sought to  join it as a party to cases before the East African Court of Justice where former Principal Accountant in the OPM Goffrey Kazinda is challenging what he calls the illegal confiscation of his property. 

During the hearing in Arusha , a withdrawal letter from the IGG was presented before a  panel of 5 justices indicating  that the Inspectorate of Ugandan Government has lost interest in joining Kazinda’s cases. 

This leaves the Attorney General of Uganda as the only respondent. 

The IGG had applied before the regional court to be joined as a respodent to a  case where the jailed former Prinicipla Accountant Goffery Kazinda challenges the move by Government to confiscate his expensive cars including a Mercedes Benz, a BMW and a Dodge as well as Land tittles.

The confiscation order to Baillifs  followed  Kazinda’s conviction on charges of illicit enrichment before the Anti-corruption court.

Kazinda was also  sentenced to a  15 year imprisonment term which was later reduced to seven years by the court ot Appeal  but the same court was non-committal on the confiscation of his property , hence petitioning the East African Court of Justice on  grounds that the order to attach his property was  illegal as the said charges were a nullity after the  Constitutional court  blocked his further prosecution on corruption charges. 

Kazinda filed the application to stay the confiscation against the Attorney General  but the IGG had sought to be added as a party on grounds it had prosecuted him for illicit enrichment charges from which  the attachment/ confiscation order arises from.