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The state has asked the Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala to decline granting bail to the embattled former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Ms Geraldine Ssali.

Ms Ssali appeared before the presiding Judge Jane Kajuga on August 28 for the hearing of her bail application, seeking for a temporary release pending the hearing of her graft case.

However, prosecution led by Mr Edward Muhumuza while objecting to her bail application presented a sworn affidavit of D/SP Mohammed Sowedi, a detective working under the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) headquarters attached to the State House Anti-Corruption Unit (SHACU).

In his affidavit D/SP Sowedi stated that Ms Ssali has the capacity to influence and interfere with witnesses by virtue of her previous appointment as permanent secretary/accounting officer of the said ministry the subject of the main case.

“That applicant, whilst in office, severally obstructed police investigations so much so as to deny police accessing/retrieving relevant evidence from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives until her remand,” reads in part D/SP Sowedi's affidavit.

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