Uganda Boxing Federation president Moses Muhangi has been remanded to Luzira Prison until May 31, and charged with forgery and falsification.
Muhangi had been arrested and detained by the Uganda Police at the Central Police station in Kampala on Tuesday afternoon.
He has spent the last 48 hours under police custody, and was presented to the Nakawa Grade II Court on Thursday where he was read the charges in a private hearing.
Speaking shortly after the hearing, Muhangi said; “I have been presented to the judge, and we have heard the charges and the case has now been pushed back to May 31.”
“I request the Cabinet Minister for Education and Sport, Mama Janet Museveni to take interest into this saga, because we are being trudged upon in the sports sector.”
“The only crime I have ever committed was to take care of the boxers, help uplift their lives from the ghetto and try turn them into superstars,” he stated.
“But I am not shaken with this. We need to cleanse our industry, and I hope our leaders including the President take interest in what is happening in sport,” he continued.
Muhangi was expected to apply for bail when he was presented at court, but that was denied by the Magistrate Ritah Kidasa Newumbe.
Muhangi’s arrest was ordered by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) after he was forwarded for further investigation by PAC.
Muhangi appeared before the Public Accounts Committee on Monday, to answer concerns raised by a report from the auditor general over financial reports of the federation that delivered several unaccounted funds.
Muhangi together with UBF’s former accountant, Lydia Namuleme were then forwarded to Police CID for further management on allegations of forgery, uttering false documents and misappropriation.
He is said to have appeared before the CID in Kibuli on Monday afternoon, and recorded statements over the audit queries before he was allowed to leave.
But he was called back into CID, where he was presented with fresh charges preferred against him, which ensured that he had to be detained.
According to his close aides, Muhangi had been given police bond which was to last 48 hours after he recorded the statement, but was called back, with CID officers informing him that he had to be detained ‘over pressure from elsewhere’.
