KOLE — The Anti-Corruption Court has convicted a Kole District Local Government health official for personating his younger brother and using his brother’s academic documents to secure employment and promotion in the public service.
The Inspectorate of Government (IGG) said Omara Sarafino, also known as Egwang Martin, was convicted in Uganda v Egwang Martin aka Omara Sarafino, Case No. 67 of 2026, following a prosecution by the Inspectorate.
Sarafino, an Assistant District Health Officer in charge of Maternal and Child Health at Kole District Local Government, was found to have used the identity and academic documents of his younger brother, Egwang Martin, an engineer at Busitema University.
According to the IGG, Sarafino began using his brother’s identity in 2017 when he applied for a promotion on transfer from Apac District Local Government, where he was serving as a nursing officer, to Kole District.
He used his brother’s UCE certificate and a forged Postgraduate Diploma in Administration and Management from Uganda Martyrs University during the application process.
He was subsequently shortlisted, interviewed and appointed Assistant District Health Officer in charge of Maternal and Child Health in Kole.
The IGG said investigations also established that Sarafino had previously used a forged UCE certificate to obtain employment as a nursing officer in Apac District Local Government.
The court fined him Shs1 million on each count, with a default sentence of one year’s imprisonment on each count. The default prison terms are to run consecutively.
The court also ordered that all academic documents obtained by Sarafino under the name Egwang Martin be cancelled.
He was further dismissed from public service after the court established that some of the academic documents he used to secure employment did not belong to him while others were forged.
The prosecution was conducted by the Inspectorate of Government, represented by William Moses Ntumwa, Principal Inspectorate Officer, and Milly Namuwanga, Inspectorate Officer.
The case forms part of the IGG’s prosecution of cases involving integrity breaches and abuse of public service recruitment and promotion processes.
The Inspectorate has previously prosecuted other cases involving public officials who used relatives’ identities or documents to obtain government employment. In September 2026, for example, the Anti-Corruption Court convicted teacher Samuel Kangavve of impersonation after the IGG established that he had used his brother’s identity and employment documents to take up a government teaching position.
The IGG says its mandate includes promoting good governance, accountability and the rule of law in public office.
