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That is why Ugandans have a leader they have, they
take every thing for granted.
Em
Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is
in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
l'anarchie"
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Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:09
PM
Subject: RE: [Bulk] [Ugnet] Ugandan
jailed in Canada
Cuddy said Kasule’s father, a prominent lawyer, was killed during the
early years of the Idi Amin dictatorship. Kasule went to a Ugandan university
and obtained a commerce degree and went into banking. However, he said senior
bank employees were subject to constant kidnappings, extortion and killings
during the early 1980s.
It
appears every prominent Ugandan was killed by Amin; including crooks who died
after he was depossed. Me think even God has already forgiven Amin for the
many lies levelled at him.
Honestly, were Uganda's bank employees kidnapped, extorted and killed
in the early 80s.
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Peter-Rhaina Gwokto
"Even a small dog can piss
on a tall building" Jim Hightower
http://ottawaocg.org/gpr-mantis
| Ugandan jailed in Canada |
| Wednesday, 26th April, 2006 |
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Tuesday – A pillar of Winnipeg’s African-Canadian community was led
out of a courtroom yesterday crying and in handcuffs to await
sentencing for stealing $3.2m from a client’s bank account over a
10-year period.
According to Canadian press, James Frederick
Kasule, a personal banker and financial adviser at the Royal Bank of
Canada, stole the funds from a Winnipeg doctor.
Between
February 1994 and March 2004, he transferred various amounts directly
into his own personal account.
“I am sorry,” a sobbing Kasule,
47, told Crown attorney Donald Melnyk as he was led out of court in
following sentencing submissions before Queen’s Bench Justice Brenda
Keyser.
Melnyk said the crime demanded a six-year sentence but
defence counsel Norm Cuddy said a five-year sentence would be more
appropriate.
Kasule is active in the African refugee
community. He fled Uganda in 1982 for Winnipeg and started work at the
Royal Bank in 1984.
Kasule is active in Folklorama and is
credited with helping to found the African pavilion before leading it
for seven years.
Cuddy said Kasule coached youth soccer in
River Heights for five years, had been a volunteer at Deer Lodge
Hospital, was active in the home-building programmes of Habitat For
Humanity and taught Sunday school at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church. He
also helped African immigrants and refugees with their financial
affairs and income tax filings, without any charges.
Kasule’s 10-year reign of theft was “remarkably
unsophisticated,” transferring funds from the doctor’s account into
his own.
Cuddy said at one point, Kasule transferred $1.9m in
one go out of the doctor’s account directly into his own.
Cuddy said Kasule had tried to pay the doctor back by
investing $1.5m of the stolen money in high-tech stocks but lost it
all.
The lawyer said his client told him the thefts began as a
way to finance fertility treatments for his wife, including trips to a
fertility clinic in New York city. Later, he used the money to help
out family members, friends and other Africans who had arrived here
without any support.
Cuddy said
Kasule’s father, a prominent lawyer, was killed during the early years
of the Idi Amin dictatorship. Kasule went to a Ugandan university and
obtained a commerce degree and went into banking. However, he said
senior bank employees were subject to constant kidnappings, extortion
and killings during the early 1980s.
Melnyk
said it wasn’t clear why Kasule stole his client’s funds except to
support an extravagant lifestyle.
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