President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has extended a pardon to convicted former NSSF Uganda Managing Director, Chandi Jamwa,who was serving a 12 -year jail term, for causing financial losses to government.
“In the exercise of the power vest in me under article 121 (1) (a) of the constitution of the republic of Uganda, 1995 as mended and on the advice of the advisory committee on the prerogative of mercy, I hereby grant to the person below, on public health and humanitarian grounds,” read parts of the statement of prerogative of mercy by President Museveni
“David Chandi Jamwa, Prisoner number MBP 3348/2019,” the statement added.
Eleven other prisoners including Vincent Ntale, Nelson Drabo, James Omirambe, Samuel Aliama, Francis Leku, Joseph Kabila, Yoha Ayitia alias Samu, Fred Kato and Jackson Owino benefited from the president’s prerogative of mercy. Others are Okello Zacharia, Nono Joseph and Ouma Mesach John alias Ojambo. Eleven of the pardoned inmates were serving sentences for defilement while Chandi and Owino Joseph were serving sentences for causing financial loss and manslaughter, respectively.
In 2011, the Anti-Corruption Court sent to Luzira prison, David Chandi Jamwa after he was found guilty of causing a 3.1 billion shillings loss to the fund in 2007 when he involved in the pre-mature sale of NSSF treasury bonds at a loss to then Crane Bank bypassing Standard Chartered Bank which was a primary dealer with NSSF. 
Jamwa appealed to the Court of Appeal challenging decision of the High Court to grant him a jail term of 12yrs and asked for a bail but the court upheld decision of the High Court. In 2019, the Supreme Court also cancelled the bail which had been granted to him and reaffirmed a 12-year jail term that had been earlier handed to him by the Anti-corruption Court in 2011.
This followed the decision of majority justices of 3-2 who upheld as legal the 12-year jail term handed to Jamwa by the Anti-Corruption Court in 2011 and later confirmed by the Court of Appeal in 2018.
President Museveni reportedly extended the act of prerogative of mercy to Chandi owing to his illnesses.
