Uganda, April 22 -- For lack of evidence, Makindye Chief Magistrate's Court has freed five people accused of fraudulently acquiring land belonging to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) in Lubowa, near Kampala.

The acquitted are Mr Mohammad Kityo Lubowa, Mr Moses Bogere, Ms Betty Namanya, Ms Daphine Nakanwagi and Mr Patrick Onyango.

This was after presiding Grade One Magistrate Elisha Arinaitwe discredited the prosecution case and could not put the accused on defence.

"The prosecution's mode of recovery of documents, mode of custody of evidence specifically the expert's report, and the inconsistencies in the evidence of witnesses, which, he said, caused to loss of credibility in the eyes of the court and the failure to examine the...