State House Health Monitoring Unit has arrested five staff of Kitagwenda district local government on allegations of corruption.
Those arrested include the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Richard Ssebandeke, Principal assistant secretary, Expedito Twineomujuni, Andrew Baguma the District Engineer, Mary Ahebwa the Assistant Engineer, and Patrick Kisembo acting Chief Finance Officer.

The head of the State House Health Monitoring Unit, Dr. Warren Namara notes that the arrests came after a team that had been conducting assessments in the health department, observed a number of anomalies related to false accounting, misappropriation of funds worth over 150 million Shillings among other cases.

He says public outcry in the district over the poor service delivery in the health department forced the State House Health Monitoring unit to intervene and investigate that led to the arrest of these five district officials. The arrested officials are currently being detained at Kitagwenda Police Station as investigations continue.