Lira District Land Fraud: Three Officials Jailed Four Years, Barred from Public Office For A Decade

Three Lira officials jailed over fraudulent land title

Court heard that between February and August 2019, Lira District Local Government began the process of securing a certificate of title for its land at Ireda Estate. During the survey exercise, Opio and Otike deliberately excluded a section of the land from the district's title. The post Three Lira officials jailed over fraudulent land title appeared first on The Source Reports.

Lira District Land Fraud: Three Officials Jailed Four Years, Barred from Public Office For A Decade

The Anti-Corruption Division of the High Court has sentenced three officials from Lira District Local Government to four years’ imprisonment each after finding them guilty of orchestrating a fraudulent scheme to steal public land through the illegal acquisition of a land title. In the same judgment delivered on Thursday, the court sentenced a private individual, Atoo Rebecca, to one year in prison for her role in facilitating the fraudulent acqu…