Former Immigration Employee Joanna Mumpasha Jailed For Theft Of Public Funds.
On 11th October 2024, Joanne Nsekesha Mumpasha, a former Accounts Assistant at the Department of Immigration, was convicted on 41 counts of Theft by Public Servant. The convict was charged with theft involving over K2 million public funds, alleged to have been stolen over an 18th month’ period from January 2020 to July 2021. Ms. Mumpasha was sentenced to 6 years’ simple imprisonment, a decisive outcome in this case of public funds misappropriation. Case Background: As an Accounts Assistant, Ms. Mumpasha was entrusted with the responsibility of receiving daily collections in cash and cheques from immigration services, which she was expected to deposit at Atlas Mara Bank. However, an audit report in 2020 raised serious concerns about under-banking and unaccounted revenue, leading to a thorough forensic audit. The forensic audit revealed a clandestine scheme of siphoning public funds through deliberate