Former MP Kipoi charged with human trafficking, remanded

Nakawa Chief Magistrates court has charged former Bubulo West MP Tonny Kipoi Nsubuga with charges related to human trafficking before being remanded to Luzira prison.

Kipoi was last month arrested over witchcraft in Botswana before being deported back to Uganda last week.

On Friday afternoon, Nakawa chief magistrate Jameson Karemani read charges of attempting to traffic 20 people from Bukedea district to Democratic Republic of Congo which Kipoi denied.

Prosecution alleges that the offences were committed by Kipoi together with two information technology specialists Silas Opejo and Patrick Engorit  in April 2013 but the duo were absent on Friday.

Kipoi was sent to remand until March 16 whereas the court issued criminal summons to the other suspects.

He was on Saturday returned to Uganda after being arrested in Botswana in February for masquerading as a witch doctor and defrauded female victims between May 2017 and January 2018.

The former Bubulo West legislator was in 2012 arrested and charged with treason for allegedly recruiting youths from both Uganda and DRC as rebels in a bid to depose the Ugandan government.

He would later be released on bail but jumped it and later fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo where he has been hiding until February when he was arrested in Botswana.

In 2014, the General Court Martial in Makindye issued an arrest warrant over Kipoi after the treason charges in the civil court had been transferred to the army court.

In the same year, parliament threw him out of the August house for missing 15 sittings without justifying his absence.