Teddy Cheeye Dies

Posted by: Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan in Uganda news March 2, 2018

Teddy Cheeye was knocked dead by a speeding motor cycle as he was crossing Jinja Road at Nakawa according to reports.

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Cheeye has been a veteran journalist who owned an investigative newspaper called Uganda Confidential with must read articles in the 90’s and early 2000’s.

He’s the former head of economic monitoring in the ISO and it was in this position that he was incarcerated for misappropriation and embezzlement of the Global Fund money.

The Global fund scandal came into the limelight in 2005 to 2009. This was money worth tens of millions of dollars that came from the Geneva-bassed Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and malaria. This money was believed to have gone to charities that have never existed.

Justice John Bosco Katutsi sentenced cheeye for 10 years in prison in 2009 but because of his good behaviors while in prison, he served only seven years.

In March 2017, the veteran journalist was released. He then started running the Uganda Confidential newspaper again thus releasing some of its edition before his death.

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